The young faces of UP's General Election 2014

The beauty of any political movements/political party's wave is that they most of the time give us many new faces. These new faces ridding on the movements and wave raises a lot of expectations from the general public. In this 'Modi Wave' also, there are a lot of such faces, in this post we would be talking about five such faces from Uttar Pradesh.


1. SADHVI SAVITRI BAI FOOLE, Bahraich, 39, Female


This Mayawati look a like Sadhvi is like a young Uma Bharti. She came into headline when she won the assembly elcetion in 2012 from Balha (Bahraich). This time she defeated Congress MP Kamal Kishor.

2. PRIYANKA SINGH RAWAT, Barabanki, 28, Female





During last election, many had glorified B L Punia's victory at Barabanki, after he made a remarkable come back. Punia, came third during 2007 assembly election. Without been perturbed, he decided to stay on and winthin a two years, he was in news for winning Barabanki seat, afterall in was in 1984 that Congress last won this seat.

Now, in this election Punia was defeated by another new comer, that to by over 2 lakh votes in Barabanki. Once working with a news channel, she joined the BJP last June. Her husband Raghunath Rawat is with the Indian Revenue Services an dis posted in Nagpur.

3. REKHA VERMA, Dhaurahra, 32, Female

She is the wife of late Arun Verma, a BSP leader. Her husband joined the BJP last year and was in consideration for a Lok Sabha ticket until he died about four months ago after suffering a heart attack. Riding on the Modi Wave she defeated union minister Jatin Prasad, who came fourth behind BSP' Daud Ahmad.


 








4. ANUPRIYA SINGH PATEL, Mirzapur, 33, Female

This alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College had already grabed the news when BJP decided to go with pre-poll alliance with her party. She is the daughter of Dr.Sone Lal Patel, who founded the Apna Dal. She has a Masters degrees in Psychology and also Masters in Business Administration (MBA), and has taught at Amity University.

5. ANJU BALA, Misrikh, 34, Female

BJP was able to win this closely contested reserved constituency from BSP, a seat which they last won in 1996.


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Election 2014| Numbers | NOTA & AAP

NOTA, short for none-of-the-above option was introduced for the first time in this Lok Sabha election. I thought of studying the NOTA numbers.

Across India, NOTA garnered a countrywide vote share of 1.1% ( or 6000197 votes) in this Lok Sabha polls, which is more than what CPI  {0.8%,4327298} or JD(U) {1.1%,5992196}. The Top 30 seats where NOTA got the maximum votes are:

 At the same same I decided to compare the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) performance against the NOTA vote share, after all it was these so honest fellows who thought that after there entry into Indian politics, we the people of nation will find an alternative to chose for. Here is the comparison:

Though UP polled the highest 5.92 lakh votes in favour of NOTA, this translated into just 0.7 per cent vote share. In fact, barely 19 of UP's 80 seats recorded more than 10,000 NOTA votes. However when we compared the NOTA performance with AAP, here is the 51 seats where NOTA got more votes than AAP:

Infographic of UP's General Election Since 1951

Will we going to witness a saffron wash tomorrow and everyone else would submerge under NaMo Tsunami, these statements would get cleared in few hours. In the mean time here is few data pointers to showcase the historical performance of various political parties in the general election. 

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Q1. In 2013, Armenian-born Aro Agakhanyan's company entered the Guinness World Records for his creation that is commercially now available at $199.99. However, a feat undertaken recently by one of his employees Mr. Martirosyan has brought the company a lot of press.

Identify the company and its recent claim to fame.



Q2. On March 6, 1912, almost 100 years ago, it was first sold to a grocer in Hoboken named S. C. Thuesen for 30 cents per pound. They were packaged in bulk tins then. Around 450 billion of them have been sold worldwide since they first hit the market. The stretch of West 15th Street between 9th and 10th avenues in New York City where they were first produced now bears its name. What, first produced almost a 100 years back, is this?

Q3. The Grass Ceiling, Inc. was established in 1995 and has been a leading service provider to the sporting industry, offering professional consultation and management. Which specific category of people do they cater to?

Q4. He was born in Pakistan in 1957, one of three children.His parents were medical missionaries, and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. He studied at a boarding school in the Himalayan mountains of India, Woodstock School, before moving to a boarding school in Bath, England. At Oxford University, he studied Physics, then changed to Politics, Philosophy and Economics, to eventually graduate in 1978. He began a career in journalism, working on local newspapers, then producing a world news service in the Seychelles. In August 2010, he went back to his birth place of Pakistan to distribute LifeSaver jerry cans in aid of the floods there. Identify this entrepreneur and his acquisition.

Q5. It was launched on August 12, 1999, as a spare time project by Senh Duong. His inspiration came when, as a fan of Jackie Chan, Duong started collecting all the reviews of Chan's movies as they were coming out in the United States. What?    

Q6. The most popular brand to date in the United States for the Kellogg company is not a cereal. Which non cereal brand is this, millions of which are sold each year.

Q7. The term was first used by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe to describe a "medieval mercenary warrior" indicating that he is not sworn to any lord's services and not available free of charge. It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities in etymology such as the Oxford English Dictionary. Only in modern times has the term morphed from a noun into an adjective , a verb and an adverb. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2005, there were approximately 10.3 million of them. Which term?

Q8. The word comes from the Old English word for a torch of burning piece of wood. It also came to mean an "identifying mark made by a hot iron". Popular folklore has it that American distilleries would do this to the wood casks they shipped alcohol in and that this is the origin of the term. They are certainly the ones credited with the term, although details are hard to find. Which word?

Q9. What phrase is said to be the most oft-printed warning in the history of the printed word? And its not - Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health.    








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