Now we are going to face again a great election where we are again electing a corrupt politicaian,with lots of unfulfilled promises,folded hands,holding each and every bodies hand .shaking hands with common man,holding childrens of slum, wat all circuses they doooo my god. And again making his bank balance and land to grow more and develop himself. Our peoples also get cheated by the nice and good promisies by these corrupt politicians ..just think for few minutes ,just check who in this political leaders are corrupt free politicians from all parties...no ...one u can find... Come on peoples just wake up and select and elect who can do some thing good to this state and city......plz by u logging a vote againist a corrupt candidates you your self boosting him 2 fatten his bank balance and land...and make his generations live long with any financial crisis where as the peoples who have voted for these politicians will be suffering frm,debt,loans,home loans,creditcards debt,mortage loand and so on so on even our childresns will also suffer our tension in thier studies ,bcoz whne parents are haapy childrens are also happy... So think twice when u me and all elect a represetative....bcoz wheno ur to ur door step u can see theese peoples ...never after he is elected u can see him not even to ur ward...only u can show him on tv news paper and say to other he had once come our door step..... Think ...think ...think.......and elect

NO ID CARD

For a better and greener bengaluru, all civic conscious citizens of our city should come forward and vote.

Problem currently is those who dream of making a strong and vibrant Karnataka are not even considering voting leave alone contesting.

Those who are subject matter experts in Governance, Administration, development, infrastructure should all become an active part of our govt and such a situation looks near to impossible at this moment, but why not hope for better days.

We need a Kannada centric party with a vision to get our state onto the roads of development. I saw a blog recently talking about 20 most important things our next government should take on priority once it assumes office.: http://karnatique.blogspot.com/2008/05/dear-next-government-twenty-things-that.html

The dilemma before the educated voter today appears to be whether to vote for the best candidate, or to vote for either of the national parties in the hope that the victor between the two will provide a stable government. But, as things stand, the predictions are that no party is going to be getting an absolute majority. Besides, very clearly, there's not much to choose between the candidates put up by the two national parties (with perhaps some exceptions), and voting for either of them is clearly going to lead to a situation where you have an Assembly full of time-tried, mediocrity-pedalling, status-quoists, ready to offer themselves to be maneuvred by some opportunist party with a handful of MLAs, quite like in the earlier dispensation.

On the other hand, if you vote for the best candidate, you possibly can expect a strong watch-dog group within the Assembly, whatever shape the ruling combination takes. And, if by some quirk of fate, your candidate lands up in the ruling firmament, so much the better.

Is that a rational way of looking at things? I don't know.

Muralidhar Rao

quick response... best candidate. i hate these pre-poll opinion polls. they have seeded the doubt of a hung assembly into the minds of the voter. they serve no other purpose. and they donot help in helping a voter cast an educated, self interest based, individual vote.