The President of India is elected by an electoral college, comprising the Members of both the Houses of Parliament as well as the MLAs of all state Assemblies. The total number of members in the Electoral College for the Presidential elections in 2007 is 4896 (233 Rajya Sabha MPs + 543 Lok Sabha MPs + 4,120 State MLAs). However, unlike any other election, the value of votes of the voters are different here. While the value of votes of each MP is the same, the strength of a vote of an MLA is determined by way of proportional representation. The MPs, too, have a specific value for each vote that is determined by dividing the total value of votes of all the states by the total number of elected members of Parliament (Lok Sabha 543 + Rajya Sabha 233). The total value of votes of all members of each State Assembly is worked out by multiplying the number of elective seats in the Assembly by the number of votes for each member. For instance, in case of Andhra Pradesh, since the total population (1971 Census) is 43,502,708 and the total number of elective seats in the Assembly 294, the number of votes for each member would be 43,502,708/1000 x 294 = 147.96 or 148. This means the value of each Andhra MLA's vote is 148. Now multiplying that number with the number of elective seats can give the value of total votes for the all members of the House: 294x148 = 43,512. The Constitution (Eighty-fourth) Amendment Act, 2001 provides that until the relevant population figures for the first census to be taken after the year 2026 have been published, the population of the states for the purposes of calculation of the value of votes for the Presidential Election shall mean the population as ascertained at the 1971-census
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In a significant development, the Prime Minister's Office has called up noted Assam intellectual Dr Hiren Gohain and talked about his request seeking a date with the prime minister. According to confirmed sources, a PMO officer called up Dr Gohain on Monday evening and requested him to send his fax message anew where he and his associates last month sought an interview with Dr Manmohan Singh to apprise him of ULFA's willingness for talk.DR Gohain is expected to send the fax on Tuesday.
The development is significant a day after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced that he has received a consent from ULFA to sit in talk. Dr Gohain, Dr Indira Goswami along with some others have...
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Tuesday met Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh a day after the PMO called up Dr Hiren Gohain who is leading a group of peace brokers in Assam. Talking to reporters in Delhi, Gogoi said Dr Singh as not aware of Dr Gohain's Fax message seeking an appointment with him. He hoped that Dr Gohain and his associates would soon be able to hold meet with the prime minister. his was followed by Gogoi's meet with Union water resources development minister Pawn Kuma Bansal.
The development came two days after the Chief Minister announced that he has as in touch with a ULFA top leader who wants to hold talk.
Journalists’ Forum, Assam (JFA) has organized a Citizen’s Meet on June 19 (Saturday) to discuss about the ongoing poaching of endangered one horn rhinoceros in Assam. The meeting will begin at 3 pm in Guwahati Press Club auditorium.
It may be mentioned that the JFA along with All Assam Students’ Union and Nature’s Beckon had demanded rigorously for a high level (preferably by Central Bureau of Investigation) enquiry to probe the issue of rhino poaching in various reserves of Assam. Facing the hit of public resentment, the State forest minister Rockybul Hussain made a public announcement that he was ready to go for a CBI enquiry in to the matter. But till today, the...
A night super bus collided its head on a speeding truck at bus at Bongaon near Dergaon on its way to Tinsukia at around 4:30 amon Sunday. At least 9 people died, 20 others injured in the incident. Injured have been immediately rushed to the Jorhat Medical College. The condition of 5 of the injured person is stated to be serious. The reason of the accident has yet to be ascertained. Top ranked police and civil officials have rushed to the spot. Investigation is in progress.
Well known literary personalities and writers of Kolkata and members of Assamese community based in kolkata accorded a reception to Assamese well known writer , poet and economist Gautam Prasad Barua on his reaching 70th years today for his contribution to Assamese literature and personal finance to middle class population of Northeast.. The function was organized by Heritage Northeast along with ASL CLUB Kolkata and was largely attended Bengal's literary icons like Kazi Nazrul award winner poet Ardhendu Chakravarty, FILM ARTIST Kalyan chatterjee writer and translator Jiban Bose, Manipuri dance exponent Devajani Chaliha Basu, Himanshu Bose journalist and writer Ranjita...
One forest guard at the Kaziranga National Park, Mohendra Karmakar, is missing in the flood as he was riding on an elephant at Kohora range on Tuesday.
Voters at the ongoing election for Deori Autonomus Council at Demow Rajabari & Katiori Villages in Sivasagar district on June 07.
Photo: Sekharjyoti Dowari, Demow.
One more top ULFA leader falls in RAB dregnet in Bangladesh. According to a section of media reports, the clise aide of C-in-C Paresh Baruah has been arrested in Mymensingh district. He is identified as Ranjan Chowdhury alias Masud Ranjan Chowdhury. He was was taken into custody from Rupa Nursing Home in Sherpur where he was undergoing treatment. He may be handed over to India very soon.
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Assam Chapter and Gramya Vikash Mancha (GVM) on Sunday organized a state-level media workshop on “Disaster risk reduction and climate change” at Hotel Brahmaputra Ashok in Guwahati. The workshop which was supported by Actionaid, was organized with an objective to sensitize the media persons over the issues of climate change and disaster.
The workshop was attended by over 35 journalists from various places of the state and the region as a whole. The entire initiative was supported by the European Commission.
While Dr. Arabinda Mishra, director of Earth Science and Climate Change Division, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)...
ULFA publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary has denied the outfit's general body meet inside the jail as Union home secretary GK Pillai said on Friday. Same it was echoed by vice president Pradip Gogoi who said ULFA would never hold any meet inside the jail.
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