NRI Voting Rights = Absentee Voting

People For Loksatta at Pravas Bharatiya Divas presenting NRI Voting Rights petitions

2011-01-08T15:29:00.000-08:00

"People For Loksatta" representatives Mrs. Subhashini Atluri and Ms. Padma Bhapatiraju attended the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2011 and presented petition for absentee voting rights for NRIs.

Sub: Absentee Voting Facility for Indians Living Abroad (NRIs)

We, the citizens of India residing abroad appreciates your commitment for providing voting rights NRI’s through the recent The Representation of People’s Bill (Amendment)-2010. However, the Act requires that NRI’s to be physically present at the time of voting. We believe that this clause would defeat the very spirit of the Act for the following reasons:

There are around 1.5 crore Indians living outside India and it is practically impossible to have 1.5 crore Indians travel to India at the same time. Usually elections/nomination dates are announced 45 days in advance which is a very short duration to travel.

Here is an example of Indians travelling to India ~ 10 lakhs in USA (rough estimates)

Students: 2 lakhs
H1-B holders : Considering minimum from the last 5 years and average of 3 lakhs will be there (60,000*5=3 Lakhs)
Green cards holders: will be an average of 5 lakhs

For a total of 10 Lakh People:

It takes at least 100 days for the all the passengers to travel to India for voting if all the flights are fully booked.
A person who came before the voting day (99th day) will have to wait until the people who came before the 98 days go back So it is not easy for him to go back until people came before him go back. Obviously one has to wait and he is losing the valuable time and money.
The cost estimation for 10 lakh people travelling to India and employment loss is estimated approx at a cost of 500 crores of rupees. Please imagine for 1.5 crores of Indians.

The given NRI’s Voting Right is NEGATED without resources in place.

The available options for Absentee voting:

Internet Voting

NRIs would use internet to get ballot paper and submit online. This would be the best option if technology permits.

Combination of Internet and Postal Ballot

NRI’s can download the ballot paper online (from election commission website) and post the ballot to the address indicated on the ballot paper with necessary paper work.

Benefits:

Very cost effective.
The available technology fits well into this model.
The person himself is exercising his franchise.
The time frame perfectly suits to posting the ballot paper back.

On behalf of Non Resident Indians, we approach you with great hope and whole heartedly believe that you will take up this matter with utmost urgency.

Sincerely,Global NRI Voting Rights Campaign Team http://www.NRIVotingRights.info People for Lok Satta http://www.PeopleForLokSatta.org

US based NRIs response to NRI Voting Rights

2010-11-30T13:31:00.000-08:00

Government declares NRI voting rights but declares that NRIs have to travel to India to get voting rights. Some of the people who were mentioned in "The times of India" article.

Radhakrishna Garge, Washington DC senior engineer
Namrata Chindarkar, a doctoral candidate in public policy at Maryland University.
Ashok Mago, Dallas-based Indian-American activist Ashok Mago

Read more: The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/The-vote-that-counts/articleshow/7002485.cms#ixzz16rmJc2nQ

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/special-report/The-vote-that-counts/articleshow/7002485.cms

London NRIs feeling about voting rights and lack of absentee vote

2010-11-30T13:23:00.000-08:00

Several prominent people from London commented on voting rights and lack of absentee voting rights to NRIs. However most of them are just praising government for providing voting rights. It would be great if they continue their campaign till NRIs get absentee voting rights.

Sudesh Aggarwal, Chairman of India Trade and Exhibition Centre (ITEC)
Sandeep Tirthwani, Business Educator at Free Enterprises.
Thomas Abraham, Founder President and Chairman Emeritus of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
D L Kalhan, President of the Indian Overseas Congress in the UK
NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul

Read complete details at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/NRIs-give-mixed-response-to-voting-rights-to-them/articleshow/7004651.cms

UAE NRIs unhappy over voting rights with no absentee voting facility

2010-11-30T13:15:00.000-08:00

Many NRIs from UAE lamented on government for not providing absentee voting rights for NRIs.

Sri Priyaa, the director general of Sharjah's Indian Trade and Exhibition Centre.
K Kumar, who heads the Dubai-based Indian Community Welfare Committee.
Abhimanyu Giri, the managing director of a trading company in Dubai,

Sanjay Verma, Indian consular officer, told that he would be happy to provide voting rights at embassies but the decision has to be taken by the central government in New Delhi.

Source: http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/non-resident-indians-criticise-voting-change

Punjab education Minister supports absentee voting rights for NRIs

2010-11-30T13:07:00.000-08:00

Punjab Education Minister and SAD Political Affairs Committee Member Sewa Singh Sekhwan Monday welcome giving voting rights to NRIs. However he demanded that the Election Commission must explore the possibility for email ballot rights to NRIs also as it may not be physically possible for each NRI to visit his native place during elections.

Source: http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/punjab-minister-wants-email-ballot-facility-nris/26536

NRI Voting Rights team meets Andhra Pradesh MPs in bayarea

2010-11-29T10:55:00.000-08:00

People For Loksatta (PFL) submitted a representation to Vijayawada MP Mr. Lagadapati Rajgopal and as well to Narsaraopet MP Mr. Venugopal Reddy regarding ABSENTEE VOTING FOR NRIs in person on the occassion of Andhra Pradesh state formation day event at Sunnyvale temple in Bay Area. Election Commission is likely to soon finalise the rules and regulations prescribing modalities for entry of names of NRIs in electoral rolls. In this context PFL urged the MPs to raise their voice and request for a bill amendment for ABSENTEE VOTING RIGHTS.

Mr. Venugopal Reddy, MP from Narsaraopet constituency, expressed that it is a legitimate request and publicly announced in his speech that he will look into this matter personally to see where the issue stands and take next step. Vijayawada MP Mr. Lagadapati Rajgopal though was sympathetic to the cause expressed his opinion saying that the modalities should be cautiously formulated and studied in depth so that no section of people are left out in this process. He said a careful and thoughtful analysis needs to be done while articulating the process of providing a better way to cast the vote.

Media coverage
http://www.123telugu.com/news/Nov10/NRI_request_Voting_Rights_AP_MP%20_29111012.html
http://naenglish.net/?p=800
http://greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=25236
http://sakshi.com/main/WeeklyDetails.aspx?Newsid=7283&Categoryid=14&subcatid=57
http://thatstelugu.oneindia.in/nri/2010/people-loksatta-pfl-submits-301110.html

NRI Voting Rights - reality

2010-11-21T15:23:00.000-08:00

Situation of NRI voting rights in art form - by Artist Sharat Oruganti

From Jago NRI

Update on NRI voting Rights bill

2010-11-21T14:32:00.000-08:00

The bill was called as "Representation of People's Act amendment 2010" and was passed as in Lok Sabha on August 31st 2010. Most MPs did not even know that it was passed and it was done in the last hours of the last day in parliament with no further discussions after Rajyasabha. Media houses also did not come to know about this. The bill allows people to register to vote if they are not staying at home and working in foreign country. This bill leaves us now with two options.

Bill did not deny absentee voting rights at least explicitly. It is up to election commission on how to implement this now. We have to approach election commission on whether they implement it and how they implement it.
Bill does not provide absentee voting rights. All the people who are given absentee voting rights are explicitly mentioned in the "Representation of People's Act". We have to get support from some members of Parliament to introduce new bill to support absentee voting rights for NRIs.

We have diplomatic, judicial and legal options left and we should not give up until absentee voting rights are provided for all NRIs.

Is it NRI voter list bill or NRI voting rights bill?

2010-11-17T14:35:00.000-08:00

Calling West Bengal MPs

2010-11-07T01:25:00.000-07:00

Constituency: 1. Alipurduars(ST) Tirkey
Shri Manohar RSP
Not Lifting the phone. Tried few times. The phone number is correct but, it seems he is not interested to pick the call up.

Constituency: 2 Arambagh(SC) Malik
Shri Sakti Mohan CPI(M)
Spoke to him. He said, he will look into this issue and if he thinks its fair, he will raise the issue in the session.
He also agreed to post his decision to be posted in our website.
Asked us to email.

Constituency: 3 Asansol Chowdhury
Shri Bansa Gopal CPI(M)
Not lifting the phone even after few tries.

Constituency: 4 Baharampur Chowdhury
Shri Adhir Ranjan INC
Spoke to someone in the office as the mobile is not working. Got a new mobile number but that number is swiched off.

Constituency: 5 Balurghat Majumdar
Shri Prasanta Kumar RSP
Spoke to him. He said, to better understand the issue, he prefer everything in a letter posted to his office address.
He said, he is positive to raise the issue in the session.

Constituency: 6 Bankura Acharia
Shri Basudeb CPI(M)
He is very patient in listening and understanding the issue. He initially said, that this is not practical to arrange the polling booths. Then, I suggested our alternatives and also, mentioned that the Election commission can implement this with better solution for indian conditions. Finally, he got convinced to raise this issue in the session.
He asked me to send a letter with all the details and about our organisation.
Agreed to post his decision in our website.

Constituency: 7 Barasat Dastidar
Dr. (Smt.) Kakoli Ghosh AITC
No Working number found in the website.

Constituency: 8 Bardhaman Purba(SC) Saha
Dr. Anup Kumar CPI(M)
Spoke to him. But busy can not speak at that time. Has asked me to call again at 10 pm IST. Tried calling again at that time but, not lifting the phone.

Constituency: 9 Bardhaman-Durgapur Haque
Prof. Sk. Saidul CPI(M)

Constituency: 10 Barrackpur Trivedi
Shri Dinesh AITC
Not lifting the phone.

Constituency: 11 Basirhat Islam
Shri Sk. Nurul AITC
Spoke to Mr Islam but he gave me his secretary number to speak to. Spoke to his secretary to pass the message. Asked me to send a letter to look into this matter futher.

Constituency: 12 Birbhum Roy
Smt. Satabdi AITC
Spoke to her. She is positive about the issue. She asked me to send her email. She also promised me to have a look at this issue.

Constituency:13 Bishnupur(SC) Bauri
Smt. Susmita CPI(M)
Spoke to some one in the office and passed the message. Mobile number is not working/lifting.

Constituency: 14 Bolpur(SC) Dome
Dr. Ram Chandra CPI(M)
He is not lifting the phone. Tried all the numbers on the website.

Constituency: 15 Bongaon(SC) Naskar
Shri Gobinda Chandra AITC
Not lifting the phone.

Constituency:16 Cooch Behar(SC) Roy
Shri Nripendra Nath AIFB
Not lifting the phone.

Constituency: 17 Darjeeling Singh
Shri Jaswant BJP
Immediately answered by his secretary. He told me Jaswant is gone for lunch. Took my detailed message and said, he will pass this message to Jaswant. He also took my mobile number to call me back.

Constituency: 18 Diamond Harbour Mitra
Shri Somendra Nath AITC
Not lifting the phone.

Constituency:19 Dum Dum Roy
Prof. Saugata AITC
Not a workable phone.

Constituency: 20 Ghatal Dasgupta
Shri Gurudas CPI
Not a workable phone.
Others:
Mamta BenarjiSpoke to her secretary. He said, she is very busy and will only can talk after 1st November. She is also the floor leader from AAITC
Pranab MukharjiCalled the number. Secretary noted the message and passed my call to one ofthe IAS Officers named Manohar.
I gave abriefing about what we are campaigning for. He understood the issue and if possible he will mention it to Pranab. He asked me to send an email with all the details.

Calling Maharastra MPs

2010-11-07T01:22:00.000-07:00

Calls to MPs of Maharashtra

Back to Calling MPs

Milind Deora
no one picked up
Vinay Sahastrbuddhe
He is the political advisor to BJP National President. Called him on his personal cell phone number given by Pooja, but no one picked up.
However a while later he called me back and I spoke to him. He told to send the details to his email id and he will respond back.

Gurudas Kamrat
Spoke to PA, told him everything about NRI voting rights. He was listening patiently and understanding what I was saying. Asked him to forward the message to Mr Gurudas Kamrat. He gave me Mr Kamrat’s email id, and told me he will be in Delhi on Monday, and I could call back that day to talk to him.

Gaikwad, Shri Eknath Mahadeo
A relative picked up the phone, who then gave me the number for his office. Talked to his PA, wasn’t really interested in what I was saying, and interrupted me midway and said to mail the details to him.

Dilip Kumar Gandhi (BJP)
No response

Sanjay Dhotre (BJP)
No response

Anandrao Adsul (BJP)
022 288 71 042
Called, PA said the MP is busy right now, and asked to call back in half an hour. Called later, talked to his PA, his PA told me to talk to the MP directly. Gave his mobile number.
98210 72192
Was switched off when I called, makes sense because they said he had just left office. Will call later

Chandrakant Bhaurao Khaire (SS)
Spoke to someone first, then he gave to the MP’s PA, PA gave me MP’s number. Spoke to MP. Talked to MP about NRI Voting rights, understood the problem immediately and asked for my views. Told him about proxy voting and postal ballot, and that its already used for army persons. He said he will raise the issue in Parliament. I asked him for his email id and he gave me two, a sansad.nic.in one and a gmail one. Forwarded the details to both.
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Three astronauts voted from space on Nov 2nd 2010

2010-11-03T21:43:00.000-07:00

U.S. Army Col. Douglas Wheelock, physicist Shannon Walker and Navy Capt. Scott Kelly voted from international space station in elections that happened yesterday. See cnn article about astronauts cast ballots from space. If Americans can vote from space, why can not non resident Indians vote from distant land?

Prisoners to get Voting Rights in London - today's news

2010-11-02T16:54:00.001-07:00

Many countries do not allow voting rights for prisoners. It is used to be the case in United kingdom as well. Voting rights for sentenced prisoners were banned in 1870 forfeiture act and the same rules were retained in the Representation of the People Act in 1983.

European court of Human Rights(ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled in 2004 that it is illegal to deny human rights including right to vote. ECHR is not related to Europian union but is common judicial agreement between 47 states of the Europe on human rights. The Government of Britain has no easy way to deny ECHR's rule and had been working with appeals and campaigns and delayed implementation for long. Court ruled that prisoners need to get all fundamental rights other than freedom of liberty. It is generally accepted by public that prisoners do not deserve their voting rights. However prison reform groups believe that it is part of rehabilitation and merging felons into main stream. British government finally accepted to lift the ban on prisoners today. It was costing millions of tax payers money in litigation and there is no way to substantiate the ban against all prisoners when prisoners in other countries under ECHR can vote. British Government is exploring the option of absentee voting from prisons. British prisoners barring violent prisoners like murderers and terrorists, will soon get voting rights.

Where are we Indians in voting rights ?
India inherited voting rights laws from Britain and does not allow exercising franchise to prisoners. Now Britian is allowing voting rights for prisoners on the principle that all citizens are entitled to same rights. Will India change laws as well? Perhaps it will in next few decades. Right now, even good citizens like NRIs are denied voting rights in Inida. NRI voting rights bill that is going to be slated to come to Parliament on Nov 9, 2010 only treats NRIs as voters and only works as instruction to election commission to not take away names from the voter list. NRIs have to travel back to their constituencies to vote and that is impractical. There is no absentee voting. When will India provide absentee voting rights for its citizens?

Summary: Government should work ways to provide voting rights to all citizens and not take away rights because of some fears and concerns.

I in NRI is still Indian

2010-11-02T14:08:00.001-07:00

From: Sharat <....@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Subject: I in NRI is still Indian

Hi Friends,

Most of your American colleagues at your work place must have
exercised their franchise today through "Absentee Voting". If you are
a true citizen of India, it should pinch you that you are denied the
same facility to vote in your beloved country.

Absentee voting is not just for NRIs, if passed it will have to be
provided to your friends in India who live/work at one place and are
registered at their home constituency. NRI Voting Rights is going to
be tabled in Lok Sabha in the coming winter session and we deserve it
to be amended.

Think about the impact, please sign the petition before Nov 9th. Lets
make a small effort to be proud voters, after all I in NRI is still
Indian.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/proxyvotingfornris/
http://nrivotingrights.info

Sharat Mangalpally
P.S. Please pass this to others.

Mr. Naren Bakshi at Bayarea NRI Absentee Voting Rights Drive

2010-11-01T13:42:00.000-07:00

Mr. Naren Bakshi, a successful entrepreneur and a community leader in silicon valley, graced the occasion as the chief guest of the day and participated in live interaction and debate. He shared his ties with Indian community and recalled how he had been living with two identities, Indian and American over the last four decades. Mr. Naren Bakshi is one of the six non government members of White-house delegation team to India in September 2010 that prepared the initial blue print for upcoming Obama's trip to India. He presented his vision for Indo-American relations in the areas of education, e-governance and alternative energy research and conveyed that one can live as real Indian and real American at the same time. He advised the campaign team to move ahead from collecting the signatures from these few hundred people to writing articles in commercial media. He gave 'Khan Academy' as an example how technology can be used to spread awareness to larger distances with less equipment. He suggested to take the activity as the dialog instead of as fight with the Government of India. He observed that the absentee voting rights are useful for all Indians though they can be started as facility for NRIs and so the cause is in the interest of India.

From Bay area NRI absentee Voting Drive

In the words of participants of NRI absentee voting rights drive

2010-11-01T11:15:00.000-07:00

Mr. Atanu Dey,a vivid blogger on economics and development subjects, expressed that giving absentee votingrights is not in the best interest of some politicians and warned the need for standing up to the cause.
Mr. Mukund, who volunteers for Manavata, a non-profit organization, explained about his work for health related projects and questioned the lack of awareness about India among NRIs.
Mrs. Anita, bay area columnist, told that she kept her Indian citizenship by choice, as that is one of the dearest things to her heart. She told that she is willing to spend 5$ postal expenses in place of 1000$ flight ticket for casting her vote as that gives her right to vote with no additional expenses to the Government.
Sreekanth Kocharlakota. People For Loksatta volunteer, told that he was pleasantly surprised at the awareness of Karntaka MPs of the NRI voting rights bill. One such pleasant experience was with a senior B.J.P leader Mr. Janardhana Samy. Janardhana Samy, who represents Chitradurga from Karnataka was an NRI and worked in several software companies like Cisco before moving back to India.
Kalyan Raman, Sanjose Business specialist, told that if Afghanistan provides absentee voting rights, why can not India provide absentee voting rights.

Bay area NRI absentee Voting Drive - update

2010-11-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

On oct 31st 2010, Halloween day, several NRIs from different states gathered for discussion forum about NRI voting rights and discussed how to send message to the Government of India. There were speeches, discussion and interaction with Mr. Naen Bhakshi followed by mass signature from all the participants. Naren Bhakshi recollected how he had been living two lives over decades, Indian and American and expressed strong support for the cause. He also gave valuable suggestions to take the movement forward.

Mr. Naren Bhakshi at NRI voting rights drive

From Bay area NRI absentee Voting Drive

Participants expressing the solidarity for Absenteee voting rights

From Bay area NRI absentee Voting Drive

Some coverage

http://telugu.webdunia.com/miscellaneous/nri/specialnews/1011/02/1101102068_1.htm

http://www.123telugu.com/news/Nov10/NRI_Voting_Rights_Drive_02111012.html
http://news.bharatfamily.com/comu/comm_news.php?mid=79&regionid=10

http://www.greatandhra.com/viewnews.php?id=24632&cat=10&scat=25

Namaste Andhra http://naenglish.net/?p=520

http://thatstelugu.oneindia.in/news/2010/11/02/nri-voting-rights-drive-support-021110.htm
http://www.sakshi.com/Main/Weeklydetails.aspx?Newsid=5403&Categoryid=14&subcatid=57

Mrs. Subhashini Press Meet

2010-10-30T17:23:00.000-07:00

Lok Satta senior women leaders Mrs. Atluri Subhashini and Mrs. Sumati Solipuram organised press meet in Hyderabad in support of NRI voting rights. Mrs. Subhashini explained the need for absentee voting rights and requested the media and other parties to come forward and support the cause. See Hindu article: NRIs seek absentee voting facility for more information.

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Voting from space

2010-10-30T00:51:00.000-07:00

Some countries provide absentee ballot only for residents living abroad. However some countries allow voters to choose either direct vote or absentee voting. Many of you, who are living in United States, know that you can vote by mail instead of standing in the queue on the election day. This is absentee ballot in practice.

What happens, if people are not on earth but floating in space? Such people are called astronauts. Texas passed a bill in 1997 to extend voting facilities for astronauts who are not on the earth on the election day. Texas election officials used secure email as voting procedure for astronaut in 2009 elections. However Indian government is not extending absentee voting rights for NRIs who are living on earth.

See Democracy in orbit in "voters without borders" association that is fighting for absentee voting rights or nasa article about "Leroy Chiao' who used absentee voting as astronaut in 2004 elections.

Every country except India provides absentee voting rights

2010-10-29T14:59:00.000-07:00

Several countries facilitate exercise of franchise through postal ballots (US, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Canada and UK) or at embassies and consulates (Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, France, Russia, Sweden, Philippines, Japan, Dominican Republic and Spain), or through internet voting (France). If several countries allow absentee voting rights for local residents, why can not NRIs have their say in the future of India? If you are emotional abut having constitution right as a citizen of India, you want your vote to be counted. Sign online petition for NRI absentee voting rights.

10 lakh Indian citizens in USA

2010-10-28T22:53:00.000-07:00

There are around 10 lakh Indian citizens in just United States of America.

2 lakh students
3 lakh temporary workers
5 lakh permanent work permit holders

If 10 lakh people need to travel to India for casting vote in elections, it will take 100 days based on current airline carrier capacity. Since it is not possible for all of them to travel on the same day and so average Indian has to take around 2 months break. It also costs more than 100 million dollars traveling expenses that can be avoided. So sign the online petition for NRI absentee voting rights

From NRI Voting Rights campaign collection from all cities

Calling Andhra Pradesh MPs

2010-10-27T16:39:00.000-07:00

27th October 2010

Calling Andhra Pradesh MPs - Updates

Hyma Sagi and Praveen have called 9 MP's from Andhra Pradesh tonight.

Hyma Sagi

Balram,Shri Porika Naik

Mallikarjun secretary answered the call and asked us to call him back

Bothsa Jhansi Laksmi

Said that she would support the Postal Ballot option if proposed in Loksabha. Asked me to send the request in writing. Sent her an email regarding the same

Chinta Mohan,Dr.

Out of station. His wife took down my number and promised to pass on the message to him and have him call me back

Deo,Shri V. Kishore Chandra

Said that he would support the Postal Ballot option if proposed in Loksabha. Asked me to send the request in writing. Sent him an email regarding the same

Gutha,Shri Sukender Reddy

Not available.Will have to call him back

Praveen Potineni

Hari,Shri Sabbam

Not very forthcoming. He said that he will not oppose since the bill is proposed by congress and we should speak with opposition MP’s for any amendments to the bill

Harsha Kumar,Shri G.V.

Not available. Will have to call him back

Nimmala,Shri Kristappa

Call after 2 days . On a committee meeting.

Rao,Shri Nama Nageswara

He is proactive. He suggested that when he makes a proposal in the house, he has to give some constructive ideas for implementing the postal ballot/absentee voting. He wanted us to email the possible implementation ideas to be given to election commission. Sent him the email.

Calling Karnataka MPs for absentee voting rights

2010-10-26T14:34:00.000-07:00

26th October 2010

Calls to all MPs of Karnataka

Calls to all MPs of Karnataka is complete. He are some details and interesting facts.

Most of the secretaries said they understand our cause.
Many of them told to send emails to MPs
Ironically, In all the calls that were made, Deve Gowda secretary picked up in the first ring.
Vishwanath,Shri Adagooru Huchegowda is the only MP to pick the call personally and talk. He spoke for more than 15 minutes and said he supports Absentee Voting cause. He listened the whole story with lot of interest, asked many questions and said this is a genuine request.
Many of our MPs have wonderful ring tones which surprised us.
Many secretaries came forward by giving the cell phone numbers of MPs. They even told to talk to MPs personally
MP Ananth Kumar secretary asked some interesting questions (how corruption can be avoided in Internet + Postal voting) which we discussed in our status call yesterday.
Many MPs phone number do not even work and many of them dont even pick the call.

HERE IS THE DETAILED CALL INFORMATION

Directly talked to MPs

Vishwanath,Shri Adagooru Huchegowda
Constituency : Mysore (Karnataka )
Party Name : Indian National Congress(INC)
Email Address : nimmavishwanath@yahoo.com

Talked Directly to Vishwanath, MP of Mysore (Karnataka). He told he supports "Absentee Voting" and he told he will put a word of other Congress MPs about this as well. He as well said that our request is genuine.

Talked to Secretaries

Ananth Kumar,Shri

Constituency : Bangalore South (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)

Secretary Diwakar - Ananth Kumar Secratary Picked the call and he said please send me an email in regards to this and he will make sure he will pass the entire information to Ananth Kumar.

amdiwakar@gmail.com

Moily,Dr.(Shri) M. Veerappa

Constituency : Chikkballapur (Karnataka )
Party Name : Indian National Congress(INC)
Email Address : vmoily@kar.nic.in

Secratary Sood - Sir is in his chamber right now. Please call after half an hour and you can directly talk to him in person. Called after half an hour told to email the request to Moily and he will explain the case to him,

vmoily@kar.nic.in

Katti,Shri Ramesh Vishwanath

Constituency : Chikkodi (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)

Secretary Madhuram : 9449006627 - call on this number and you can directly talk to the MP Shri Ramesh. He is in a function today

Jigajinagi,Shri Ramesh Chandappa

Constituency : Bijapur (SC) (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)

Secretary Satyam - picked up the phone and he told to email RAMESH directly.

Swamy,Shri Janardhana (Youngster)

Constituency : Chitradurga (SC) (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Email Address : jswamy@jswamy.com

Secretary Naren to Shri Janardhana: call on mobile number 9632311259 and he will pick the call. Called on his cell phone many times and it is busy.

Devegowda,Shri H.D.

Constituency : Hassan (Karnataka )
Party Name : Janata Dal (Secular)(JD(S))
Email Address : haradanahalli@yahoo.co.in

Secretary Shiva Kumar: Secretary for HD Deve Gowda. Please send an email immediately to this email and he will make sure Deve Gowda will get a copy while going to the parliament. He also told he will read it clearly and explain Deve Gowda about what we are trying to ask. bittalli@yahoo.com

Udasi,Shri Shivkumar Chanabasappa

Constituency : Haveri (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Email Address : scu@shivkumarudasi.me

Secretary Kulkani - picked the call and he told please send an email to Shivakumar on this email ID. He said he actively monitors his emails.

scu@shivkumarudasi.me

Joshi,Shri Pralhad Venkatesh

Constituency : Dharwad (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Email Address : pralhadvjoshi@datoone.in

Secretary Santhosh picked up the call and he asked to call on this number 9448283555 after 1.30 PM India time.

harge,Shri Mallikarjun

Constituency : Gulbarga (SC) (Karnataka )
Party Name : Indian National Congress(INC)
Email Address : m.kharge@sansad.nic.in
mallikarjunkharge@yahoo.in

Secretary Prakash picked up the call. He told if we can call after 1 hour he will give the call directly to Mallikarjuna Kharge. Phone number is 9980035555(M)

No Response from MPs

Gaddigoudar,Shri Parvatagouda Chandanagouda

Constituency : Bagalkot (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Response: No response from any of the phones.

Mohan,Shri P. C.

Constituency : Bangalore Central (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)

Response: A person from his office picked the call. Neither PA nor Mohan PC is not available to take the message.

Gowda,Shri Chandre D.B.

Constituency : Bangalore North (Karnataka )
Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)