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Top issues so far from the election survey
Written By admin123 - 4 March, 2009
Bangalore Elections Citizen Reports survey Issues Issues
Here is how the top issues look right now (March 4) in the ongoing issue survey. If you haven't fill the survey out yet, please do so ASAP. We'll start our candidate interviews very shortly, so its important to build an "as popular" top issue list as possible.
Local (top 10, in order)
- Cleaner city with better waste management
- Water issues - quality and shortage, better groundwater management
- Air and Noise pollution
- Urban governance reforms - real autonomy for Bangalore
- More/better parks and lakes for the city
- Issues of Urban poor, Slum improvements
- Friendly facilities/infrastructure for the differently-abled people
- Commuter Rail Service for Bangalore
- Fast-tracking and more central support for Metro Rail
- More high speed roads/expressways in and around the city
State Level (top 5)
- Police Reforms - remove political interference, grievance process for citizens etc
- More powers to Lokayukta of Karnataka
- Investments for tier2/3 cities for growth of state and de-congestion of Bangalore
- Communalism and intolerance to attacks on freedom
- Better railways infrastructure within Karnataka
National Level (top 5)
- Preventing criminals from running elections or becoming ministers
- Corruption - support for things like amendment of Prevention of corruption act
- Judicial reforms - more courts, faster justice etc
- Security and Terrorism - issues like National ID card, POTA
- Greener India
COMMENTS
Naveen - 7 March, 2009 - 17:54
Looks like the prospects of a hung parliment just got better with the breakup of BJP & BJD in Orissa. A third alliance is also looming large to split the verdict further & ensure this.
With so many regional parties, it sure looks like we are going to have a govt without any teeth & always under surgery, assuming of course that a party can form a govt at the centre, amidst all the horse-trading that is in the offing !
Poll Issues for State, Voters' Id
Naveen - 7 March, 2009 - 14:15
The poll issues for voters in Karnataka and Bangalore are the same as the rest of India -- governance reforms, of making the government more accountable to challenges and problems of economic growth and security facing our nation and people.
We also prefer a government that will accelerate devolution of financial powers to states, & one that will give Bangalore special status and investments like Mumbai.
See: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/This-is-about-future-of-India/articleshow/4236676.cms
I just got my latest voter's id (the previous had errors). The process has been somewhat streamlined now & I got done at the BBMP office in 15 minutes flat !
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idontspam - 7 March, 2009 - 19:36
This issue is like pulling teeth or teaching mathematics to school children. We need to find a way to get people to be more interested in the outcomes of issues and elections. I believe putting our list to the candidates will make them aware of our priorities. It may look like a hopeless task but once the candidates are engaged they will definitely take action. Candidates today are far better than the yesteryears. They know with the kind of information sharing that happens today thru visual media and internet they have no place to hide.
We have to demand accountability else we cant blame them. Especially when they are publically asking for us to participate in governance.
Go by what party manifestos and later when it was tailored to coalition something else?
I like this one. After all the careful checking of manifesto etc we find out the coliation govt junks all strategic stuff and goes on a tactical mode based on pulls and pressures. So what exactly did we vote for?
Why do we have hung parliaments? are we so divided on issues? Is there no clear differentiators between the parties? Is everybody claiming to the do the same things? So whoever comes we will do only what will be done? What are we getting sold on?
Naveen - 8 March, 2009 - 09:57
"IF THE GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN POLITICS BECAUSE ONLY BAD PEOPLE ARE IN POLITICS, THEN THE GOOD PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO BE RULED BY THE BAD PEOPLE" - Shatrugna Sinha, Actor-turned-politician
How True, Indeed !
All the more reason why we must take much more interest in politics & elections & exercise our rights to vote.
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