BSP demands use of ballot paper in Assembly polls

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BSP demands use of ballot paper in Assembly polls

BSP leader Marasandra Muniyappa addressing a press conference in Kalaburagi on Saturday. - PHOTO: ARUN KULKARNI

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ARUN KULKARNI

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), that had complained of Electronic Voting
Machine tampering in the Uttar Pradesh elections, has now asked the
Election Commission of India to use traditional ballot papers in the
upcoming Assembly polls in Karnataka.

Addressing a media
conference here on Saturday, Marasandra Muniyappa, State Coordinator and
party’s Karnataka in-charge, alleged that EVM tampering by the
Bharatiya Janata Party was the only reason for his party’s defeat in
Uttar Pradesh.

“Nowhere in the world, except India, are EVMs used
in elections as there was a possibility of tampering. It is EVM
tampering alone that led to our defeat in Uttar Pradesh. Tampering was
not done in Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand that also went to the
polls with Uttar Pradesh. It was done only in Uttar Pradesh as it had
become an issue of prestige for BJP to record a victory there,” he said.
He added that his party approached the court as it had sufficient
evidence to establish EVM tampering, he said.

Mr. Muniyappa exuded
confidence of winning at least 25 seats in the elections in Karnataka.
“We were in second or third place in five constituencies in the last
election. We have built party structures at grassroots level and
expanded our mass base in many constituencies,” he said.

Criticising
Prime Minister Narendra Modi for hailing Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in words and
taking “anti-Ambedkarite stance” in deeds, Mr. Muniyappa said that BJP
was a party of “anti-people and pro-corporate classes.” “The BJP has
always been against the poor people of this country. Dalits, backward
classes, minorities and other oppressed sections have suffered a lot
under its rule. Dalits and Muslims are being killed in the name of
protecting cows. It was the party that had led agitations against Mandal
Commission’s reconditions for reservations to Backward Classes,” he
said.

Tipu Jayanti

Hailing Tipu Sultan as a
great freedom fighter who breathed his last at the battlefield fight
the British, Mr. Muniyappa strongly supported the State government’s
decision to celebrate Tipu Jayanti. He alleged that BJP was
communalising the issue by wrongly projecting Tipu Sultan as a Muslim
fanatic just to polarise Hindu votes in its favour.

“Nowhere in
world history could we find a king who fought and died like an ordinary
soldier in the battlefield. He was a rare kind of patriotic king who
pledged his two sons to the British for the sake of his kingdom. Tipu
Sultan was being wrongly shown by right-wing forces,” he said. He added
that BSP would proudly celebrate Tipu Jayanti.

Mr. Muniyappa said
that BSP party supremo and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Mayawati would participate in a day-long party workers’ conference in
Bengaluru on November 26.

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Navaneetham Chandrasekharan

13 mins ·
The
Hindu paper has proved what once Napolean had said: “I can face two
battalions but not two scribes”. Thanks to Hindu which has proved by
publishing “BSP demands use of ballot paper in Assembly polls. Not only
in karnataka by in entire country the fraud EVMs have to be replaced by
ballot papers to save Universal Adult Franchise as enshrined in our
Modern Constitution. The ex CJI Sathasivam hd committed a grave error of
judgement by ordering that the fraud EVMs could be replaced
in a phased manner as suggested by the ex CEC Sampath because of the
cost of Rs1600 crore at that time (now it is more than Rs5000 crore).As
it was clearly proved that the EVMscould be tampered, hence their
replacement. The very fact that the EVMs have to be replaced itself is a
clear proof that the EVMs could be tampered. But the CJI never ordered
for using ballot papers till the entire EVMs were replaced.

BSP demands use of ballot paper in Assembly polls
Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP), that had complained of Electronic Voting Machine
tampering in the Uttar Pradesh elections, has now asked the Election
Commission of India to use traditional ballot papers in
thehindu.com
Inline image 2Navaneetham Chandrasekharan

3 mins
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The
Murderer of democratic institutions (Modi) gobbled the Master Key by
tampering the fraud EVMs to win elections. This trend is continuing as
he says that because of the present cost of Rs.5000 crore and above the
fraud EVMs will continue to be used. Hence it is the duty of the entire
99% Sravajan Samaj including SC/STs/OBCs/Religious Minorities/Poor
Brahmins and Baniyas with the support the Newspaper such as Hindu and
all the other social media to save democracy and liberty. As the survey
and opinion polls are being conducted polls could be conducted with
ballot papers along with BSP cadres by going to all the booths and
approach the voters to choose their preference in a list system of
voting.

BSP demands use of ballot paper in Assembly polls
Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP), that had complained of Electronic Voting Machine
tampering in the Uttar Pradesh elections, has now asked the Election
Commission of India to use traditional ballot papers in
thehindu.com

State Convenor and All India Executive Committee Member Marasandra Muniappa addressing the meting said:

It
is to be understood that we are the only one who are challenging the
RSS agenda of BJP rulers during the past three years.Be it the attack
against SC/STs in Una of Gujarat, or lynching of Muslims Bahenji
vehemently opposed and exposed them in the Rajya Sabha. Hence, the BJP
leaders had been hatching plans to choke our voice. They are planning to
isolate BSP from other communities and limit us only to SC/STs. That is
why they managed to create clashes between SC/STs and the Jat community
in Saharanpur. They are also able to use a SC/ST organization in their
conspiracy. she clearly understood the game-plan of BJP behind the
Saharanpur clashes. She deecided to expose them in the Parliament. When
she gave the notice to speak on the Saharanpur issue in the Rajya Sabha
on July 18, 2017, they were afraid that their mischief would get exposed
and hence they did not allow her to speak. Even the ministers also
joined the chorus to prevent her speech.She went to the Parliament to
give voice to the aspirations of people and find redresses to their
woes. The issue of Sabbirpur in Saharanpur is a very serious one in
which a Scheduled caste was killed, several others were injured and
their houses were burnt. If she was not allowed to do justice to my
aggrieved people and not able to protect them, why should she remain in
the Parliament? she asked. BJP people may try to silence her. But she,
being Babasaheb’s daughter and Kanshi Ram Saheb’s disciple, cannot be
silenced by anyone. she decided to resign her Rajya Sabha membership as
Babasaheb Ambedkar did in 1951. she, after quitting the Rajya Sabha
seat, have also decided to tour the whole country to prepare our people
and strengthen our movement in every state. We must put an end to all
kinds of exploitations by forming our government.

Have
Faith in the Success of our Movement: The BJP has become strong not
because of its own strength, but because of the failure of other
parties. Presently, you may be thinking that we can succeed if we join
the UPA / Congress and other parties. These parties are in such pitiable
conditions that they cannot be of any use to us. We must achieve the
success on our own strength without depending on any other party. In
fact, only we can challenge and defeat the casteist, communal and
pro-capitalist BJP. Other than BSP, no other party has got the
determination and morality to challenge BJP. Do not lose your faith in
the success of our movement. Do not lose your heart in the face of odd
situations. Our ancestors had faced much more tough situations, but they
did not lose heart. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Manyawar Kanshi Ramji were
neither disappointed nor did they get discouraged when they faced severe
challenges and setbacks.

Look
at Bahenji. Have you ever seen her disheartened, sad and disappointed?
Every tough situation has made her tougher and made her to move ahead
with greater determination. When she took over the charge of party’s
president post, she had faced toughest time of her life. Our old leaders
such as Phulsingh Barayya and Davuram Ratnakar betrayed the movement by
playing in the hands of other parties. But she was not disappointed.
She carried ahead the movement all alone. She always enjoyed her work.
You must also do your work with great joy. Do not think that success
brings us joy. On the other hand it is the joy that brings us success.
We must carry our struggles with great celebration and bliss. The
present situation may look very critical and depressing. But we can
convert this situation to our advantage by our determination and hard
work.

Action Plan:
• Starting from September 18, 2017, Bahenji had programs in Uttar Pradesh on every month of 18.

• She is also visiting other states of the country at least once in a
year to address the party workers. All these states have been grouped
in nine zones. These programs are not for the mass but for the class.
They are only for the party workers of all levels – starting from state
to booth level. In these programs, Bahenji will be personally verifying
the progress of formation of committees. These programs are to be
conducted in the name of ‘Grand Conference of Workers’ (Karyakarthan ka
Vishal Mahasabha).
• The nine zones with states inherent and the dates of Behanji’s programs are as follows:
• Bhopal Zone (Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgad) – Dec. 12, 2017.
• Jaipur Zone (Rajastan, Gujarat) – Nov. 30, 2017.
• Nagpur Zone (Maharashtra, Telangana, AP, Orissa) – Dec. 10, 2017.
• Bangalore Zone (Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Puducherry) – Nov. 26, 2017.
• Patna Zone (Bihar, West Bengal, Jarkhand) – Jan. 30, 2018.
• Delhi Zone – Jan. 28, 2018.
• Chandigad Zone(Chandigad, Punjab, Haryana) – Feb. 25, 2018.
• Kangada Zone (Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh) – Feb. 27, 2018.
• Nova Zone – Uttarkhand - March 4, 2018.

• The above programs will continue every year on the above dates without any change.
• You have to mobilize funds for the above programs and also for the elections on your own.

• Now that we are increasing the pace of our movement in a greater
speed, we must mobilize more funds to achieve greater success. Ours is a
self-respect movement. Self-respect movement can succeed only with
self-help. We are not taking funds from business houses and corporate
companies. Collecting money through membership is one source for us. Now
we must restart the collection of funds on Bahenji’s birthday every
year as we were doing earlier. With these two sources, we can manage our
party activities. Then you must declare your contributions now.
(Office-bearers of every state stood up and declared their respective
contribution. Tamilnadu and Karnataka office-bearers declared to
contribute Rs. 25 lakh each. Kerala leaders declared Rs. 10 lakhs and
Puducherry leaders declared Rs. 2 lakhs). These funds must be collected
before Dec. 31 and deposited at the Central Office in the first week of
Jan. 2018. No receipt books to be printed. If it is printed, the
responsible persons will be expelled from the party. Funds must be
collected through registers in the name of Jankalyan Diwas. Similarly,
you must also deposit the membership money with the Central Office as
and when you enroll the members.
• Collection of funds on the
eve of my birthday must continue in future, whether I am alive or not.-
said Bahenji .It must become a tradition for the Bahujan Samaj to
collect money for running the movement.

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