Gujarat Election 2017 - How Gujarat voted in Reserved Constituencies ?

Gujarat has 39 reserved constituencies for SC and ST, spread across Ahmedabad, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Dahod, Dang, Jamnagar, Junagarh, Kutch, Mehsana, Narmada, Navsari, Panchmahal, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surat, Surendranagar, Vadodara and Valsad districts (19 districts).
Among which INC and their allies increased their victory margins and wrestled constituencies from BJP in 13 constituencies, while in 9 constituencies, their victory margins dropped.
BJP increased its victory margin and wrestled constituencies from INC in 12 constituencies, while in 4 constituencies their victory margins dropped.
These constituencies as said earlier are spread across 19 districts across 5 regions namely, North, South and Central Gujarat, Kutch and Saurashtra.
Central Gujarat:
* In Ahmedabad District, BJP and INC increased their respective margins and won a constituency each.
* In Bharauch District, INC ally BTP won the constituency. (INC +).
* In Dahod District, out of 5 constituencies, INC wrestled a seat from BJP, saw their victory margins erode in other two seats while BJP saw their margin erode in a seat meanwhile substantially increasinging their victory margin in another. (INC +).
* In Narmada District, INC wrestled a seat from BJP and INC ally BTP wrestled a seat from BJP (INC +).
* In Panchmahal district, out of two seats, a seat was won by an independent and in another seat, BJP wrestled a seat from INC. (BJP +).
* In Vadodara district, out of three seats, 2 seats were wrestled by BJP and INC from one another, and in another one, BJP saw its victory margin elevated marginally. (BJP +)
North Gujarat:
* In Banaskantha District, INC saw its victory margin drop marginally in a seat, with another being the important Vadgam seat won by Independent candidate Jignesh Mewani, which was previously the seat held by INC. (INC +).
* In Mehsana District, BJP wrestled a seat from INC. (BJP +).
* In Sabarkantha District, INC saw its victory margin fall drastically in two seats, while BJP marginally increased their victory margin in a seat. (INC +).
South Gujarat Region:
* In Navsari District, INC saw its victory margin erode in a seat, while BJP increased their victory margin drastically in another.
* In Dang District, INC saw its victory margin drop to three digits in a seat, making the election a closely fought one. (INC +)
* In Surat District, out of 6 seats, BJP increased their victory margin in two seats while they saw it erode in one seat. INC wrestled a seat from BJP, saw their victory margin increase in one seat and decrease in another.
* In Valsad district, out of three seats, BJP wrestled a seat from INC in a seat and saw their victory margin increase in another. INC saw its victory margin drop in a seat. (BJP +)
Saurashtra Region:
* In Bhavnagar district, INC wrestled a seat from BJP (INC +)
* In Jamnagar district, INC wrestled a seat from BJP (INC +)
* In Junagarh district, INC wrestled a seat from BJP (INC +)
* In Rajkot district, BJP saw its victory margin reduce appreciably in a seat (BJP +)
* In Surendranagar, INC wrestled a seat from BJP (INC +)
INC swept the reserved constituencies in Saurashtra region, by having effectively wrestled 4 seats from BJP. BJP saw its victory margin reduce appreciably in a seat.
Kutch Region:
In Kutch district, BJP saw their victory margin marginally erode (BJP +) in a seat.
Out of 39 reserved constituencies, 13 seats are reserved for SC and 26 for ST. Among 13 seats reserved for SC, BJP won 7 seats while INC and their allies won 6 seats. The notable factor here is that, out of 6 seats won by INC and their allies, 4 seats were wrestled from BJP and incidentally, these seats are from Saurashtra region. Among 26 seats for ST, INC and its allies won 16 seats, while BJP won 9.

Our Intolerance to Truth - Gandhi Jayanthi Special

Never has the choice of prime ministerial candidate been so much a part of mainstream social discussions like this.

An emigrated Pandit from Kashmir to humble Kumars from Bihar to Chowdarys and Reddys from Andhra Pradesh to art loving Banerjees and Chatterjees   of   Paschim Banga to surname   less   Subramaniams   and Palaniappans of Tamil Nadu, all talk about the repercussions of a specific prime ministerial candidate . The prime ministerial candidate is none other than, Narendra Damodardas Modi or NaMo, who is being hailed as a Messiah of sorts to bring about a change in way, India functions as a nation.

You must be wondering why I haven't added surnames from minority communities in the paragraph above. Because, their views has already been misinterpreted, magnified and colored with a religious fundamentalist view by none other than our so called 'Pseudo-Secularists', who have watched religious   pogroms   right   from   post-independent riots to Sikh   riots   to occasional sectarian violence and had given their valuable arm-chair philosophers  styled  views,  which  just  doesn't  resonate  with  people  from either sides.

So now you would have started to think that, these words are coming from a person who supports Modi secretly and acts like a politically neutral person in outset. I don't blame you for it is a symptom of a disease that is spreading like a viral infection.

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With me posting this on a blog, which naturally qualifies as a part of social media, let me talk about the cyber warriors of BJP and Congress. No other election has brought about such a level of clear divide, about how people approach certain issues. No other election has been contested on the basis of economic indicators as this.  In fact, when Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India, recently released a ranking for states based on Multi Dimensional Index, there was a furor of activity in social media for it ranked Gujarat as less developed in contrary to the public opinion, that is Gujarat is a state where milk flows in gutters, glittering gold could be found in street sides and power is generated by some unknown Shree chakram of Vishnu.

Thanks to this issue, because it brought out a single factor that unites cyber warriors of BJP and Congress.  That is, they are suffering from a serious disease which makes them immune to 'Hard facts'. A very serious disease which makes them blabber hollow claims , lie with a straight face , make completely   irrelevant   personal   remarks to deride a personality and importantly to enter the discussion thread on Facebook , discussion forums and troll everyone.

It is this disease that makes them quite a difficult group of people to argue with. Argument is defined as an attempt to convince someone of something by presenting them reasons to accept a certain conclusion. But it never works with them because

1. Reasons do contain hard facts and the affected people have deep disregard for anything that is a 'fact'.

2. The moment when they feel the argument supports a conclusion that is against their pre-conceived notion, they hop from one topic to other or accuse us of being a racist, religious fundamentalist, pseudo-secularist, leftists, Hindutva-vadi and to top it all, 'Traitor'.

Before 1990’s everyone watched Doordarshan and  received  similar  news across the country. Then, political parties started their own TV channels to peddle their point of views to public. The extreme example is found in Tamil Nadu, where watching news bulletins from channels of opposing parties would make any sane person to think whether they are living in two alternate universes at a same time. The problem starts there, for the lazy us, stick to a news channel than surfing more than 2 channels to know the truth. The more we hear from a specific news channel, our political stance slowly gets tied to their ideology.

Enter Facebook , twitter and the scene is getting more fragmented. People can choose the news they see and they have started forming a bubble around them. The bubble effectively covers their head which makes it extremely hard for us to take the facts to their well-functioning asset, which is their Brain.

Here, I would like to quote an example. On such a discussion on Gujarat, I stated to a person that Gujarat has a low HDI index.  For information, HDI is Human Development Index, which is globally accepted parameter to understand the social well being of a citizen. The answer which he gave shocked me, for he openly claimed that HDI is based on falsehood and added that it is inhumane, for it reduces people to some numbers. But he was part of a larger band, which plays the same tune for years, that is, their state has higher GDP and hence their citizens are well off. Am still trying to come in terms with how GDP is related to people's well being.

So here is a truth that has emerged.  Even before Lok Sabha polls, the Narendra Modi factor has divided people into two separate groups and I believe that this is to continue further, even if Modi wins these polls or loses it. Modi has already won the mind game for  he and  his public relations machinery has turned the game from BJP vs Congress to Modi vs Congress, in eyes of Anti-Modi fans and Modi vs Ills that haunt this nation, in eyes of Modi fans.

Win or Lose, Narendra Modi has entered the national scene and he is indeed a figure to reckon with. Call it illusion or real, the public relation machinery of his, has captured the imaginations of millions in this nation.

What if Modi loses his 2014 LS Polls?

He will get elected as Chief Minister of Gujarat for the fourth consecutive time and we may get to hear Rahulisms in upcoming Independence day speech like,

“Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, your pants”

“You go to a night club somewhere in Spain and there’s Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That’s the power of India. That’s the power of Indian people”

“These roads can’t have potholes. They can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, strong forces”.

Am sure that would make us all proud and of course it's a point to cheer for many aunties and young girls who wanted him to be Prime Minister for his cute and charming looks, just like his father.

And here  is  a  social  media  alert:  

Brand  Namo  has  entered  smart  phone market too.

To hell with marketing.

Links:

Spotlight on some Rahulisms: In pics

Narendra Modi fans launch 'Smart NAMO' phones

Modi and the numbers game

http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=811586

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