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New Delhi, From appealing people not to vote for them to flaunting the unsuccessful tag, changing name in each election to losing huge sums of money in security deposits -- some tenacious <keyword id="20022603" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="independent" source="keywords">Independent</keyword> candidates have tried these all but losing elections became a habit for them. Tamil Nadu's K Padmarajan, who proudly calls himself the "Election King", might be the only candidate in the election fray who urges people not to vote for him, so he can retain his tag of being "most unsuccessful candidate", a feat also registered in the Limca Book of records. The 65-year-old tyre repair shop owner also finds pride in his entry in the <keyword id="19981515" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="guinness-book-of-world-records" source="keywords">Guinness Book of World Records</keyword> for candidate with most contested elections. He claims to have lost Rs 80 lakh so far in security deposits which gets forfeited every time he loses an election besides expenses for filing nomination amid fanfare. Gearing up for his 239th attempt, Padmarajan has filed his nomination for the 18th <keyword id="19895394" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lok-sabha" source="keywords">Lok Sabha</keyword> elections from Thrissur in Kerala and Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu. "I began fighting elections in 1988 from my home town of Mettur, located in Tamil Nadu. I have contested 238 elections so far including against former prime ministers <keyword id="20374221" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="atal-bihar-vajpayee" source="keywords">Atal Bihar Vajpayee</keyword>, P V Narsimha Rao and Manmohan Singh. This will be my 239th attempt. I pick a unique battle every time," he told PTI. Asked about his campaign plans, Padmarajan said, "I ask people not vote for me, I don't want the votes but I want to continue to hold the tag of most unsuccessful candidate. I don't campaign but when I go for filing nomination, I do that in a grand way." From former chief ministers like Jayalalitha, M Karunanidhi, YSR Reddy and AK Antony to filmstars Hema Malini and Vijayakanth -- the list of bigwigs against whom Padmarajan has contested is long. Indore's Parmanand <keyword id="21190647" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tolani" source="keywords">Tolani</keyword> is taking forward his father's legacy who fought elections as independent candidate for three decades. "My father passed away in 1988 and I am taking forward his legacy. I have contested 18 elections so far including eight Lok Sabha and eight Vidhan Sabha. I will be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls too," 65-year-old Tolani told PTI. "My father's wish was that we do not have to stop the trend till someone from the family gets elected. If I am not able to do it in my lifetime, my two daughters will carry forward the baton," said Tolani, who is a property broker. <keyword id="21190648" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vijay-prakash-kodekar" source="keywords">Vijay Prakash Kodekar</keyword> from <keyword id="19897309" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="pune" source="keywords">Pune</keyword>, a retired staffer from state electricity board, has a different agenda behind contesting elections as independent candidate -- advocating zero budget poll campaigns. He can be seen pushing a steel cart on wheels in streets of Latur, where he is planning to contest the Lok Sabha polls. A flex board on the cart says "Main bhi Pradhanmantri". "The message why cannot any poor individual be the Prime Minister of the country. Why this exorbitant expenditure by parties on election campaigns? Polls can be fought on zero budget and the money can be utilised for public welfare," said 78-year-old Kodekar, who campaigns wearing a white dhoti. Having contested 24 elections so far, Kodekar uses a different name for different elections. "Some elections I have contested using the name Vijay, some with 'Rashtrapati' and some with the name 'Znyosho' -- as I am a disciple of Osho. I complete the name change formalities and then I contest the polls using the new name," he said. Hyderabad techie Ravinder Uppula, uses different campaign strategies for each Lok Sabha election he fights. In 2014 -- it was anti-corruption march and in 2019 it was a liquid only fast. "I promise during my campaign that if I get elected, I will get a lie detector test done every 100 days so public who votes for me doesn't feel cheated. That is how our politicians should do as well to weed out corruption," he said. Uppula, however, is disappointed with the poll campaign expenses. "It should not be an expensive deal to canvass in this country, an agenda and the right promise should be enough rather than the poll fray leaving the voters with no choice except voting for a smaller thief or a bigger thief," he added. The strange obsession of the independent candidates has also been featured in the book "The Power of The Ballot: Travail and Triumph in the Elections". Sharing the saga of some of the independent candidates' stint at the elections, the book decodes "why do some people contest every time knowing they will lose?" Kaka Joginder Singh, also known as "Dhartipakad", was a textile-shop owner who contested and lost over 300 elections. He died in 1998. In elections, he always contested independently, and always lost his security deposits. He earned the nickname Dhartipakad after several unsuccessful runs for the post of the President of India. The year with the greatest yield for him was during the tenth presidential elections in 1992 in which he earned fourth place in the polling with 1,135 votes, losing to Shankar Dayal Sharma; it was his best performance. He also contested elections from 14 states of India in the 1990s, mostly for state assemblies. Singh died in 1998. Long before <keyword id="19895781" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="narendra-modi" source="keywords">Narendra Modi</keyword> chose Varanasi as an election destination, the city had Narendra Nath Dubey "Adig". Often referred to as Kashi's Dhartipakad, he has been fighting every election as an independent candidate since 1984, losing his security deposit each time. He passed away in 2022.

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<ul><li>As unemployment swells in India, educated millenials are banking on government jobs, thanks to job security and consistent work hours. </li><li>Over 500,000 candidates — including MBAs and engineering graduates and other degree holders — applied for 136 positions of watchman, gardners and sanitation workers. </li><li>India’s unemployment rate stood at 8.5% in October — the highest in three years.</li></ul>As unemployment swells in India, educated millenials are banking on government jobs, thanks to job security and consistent work hours. A recent <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/5-lakh-including-mba-engineers-post-graduates-apply-to-become-gardener-and-watchman-in-bihar-1623159-2019-11-28">job posting in Bihar Vidhan Sabha</a> has painted a grim picture of job situation in India. In a recent development, over 500,000 candidates — including MBAs, engineering graduates and other degree holders — applied for 136 positions seeking candidates for watchmen, gardners and sanitation workers. That means, a job that requires 10th grade as the minimum qualification has most of the applicants as ‘overqualified.’ In fact, over 450,000 applicants have appeared for the interviews so far. India’s unemployment rate stood at 8.5% in October — the highest in three years. As the number of jobs in the private sector are sinking and multinationals are sacking employees, more millennials are taking government exams, shows a survey ‘Between Aspiration &amp; Despair: Government Jobs &amp; The Educated Unemployed by the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/as-unemployment-swells-in-india-educated-millennials-favour-government-jobs/articleshow/69267943.cms">Centre for Equity Studies.</a> "This is a matter for investigations on how so many applicants are appearing for interviews on a daily basis. There is a job crisis and unemployment in the state and therefore engineers and professional degree holders are applying for Group-D jobs," <a href="https://www.timesnownews.com/education/article/5-lakh-engineers-mba-postgraduates-graduates-apply-for-group-d-jobs-in-bihar-report/518007">said</a> Prem Chand Mishra, who is a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. On the other hand, as many as 7,000 graduates have applied for <keyword id="1952956" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="sanitation-jobs">sanitation jobs</keyword> in Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation (CCMC) in Tamil Nadu, <a href="http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/tamil-nadu-engineers-graduates-among-7000-applicants-for-549-sanitary-workers-posts-179744.html">according to</a> news agency ANI. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/education/news/average-education-expenditure-in-india-increases-fourfold-to-8331-per-student/articleshow/72282009.cms">Indians are spending enormously on education even with few jobs in sight</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/unemployment-in-india-highest-among-urban-youth-says-government-data/articleshow/69631185.cms"> Unemployment in India highest among urban youth, says government data</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/as-unemployment-swells-in-india-educated-millennials-favour-government-jobs/articleshow/69267943.cms">As unemployment swells in India, educated millennials favour government jobs</a>

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With a win in nine seats and leads in three others, the CPI(ML) on Tuesday is all set for an impressive performance in the Bihar Assembly elections. The <keyword id="6360542" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="communist-party-of-india">Communist Party of India</keyword> (Marxist-Leninist), often working in the margins of mainstream politics, fielded 19 candidates, most of them students and youth leaders, in the elections. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="79142084" title="Bihar Election Results 2020: With 40 seats still hanging in the balance, NDA widens its lead but RJD continues to be the single largest party" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> According to the latest trends as of 11:50 pm, CPI(ML) has won nine of the 19 seats and is leading in three. The CPI(M) which competed on four seats has won two seats, and the CPI which contested in six seats has also won two seats. With the win in nine seats and leads in three others, the CPI(ML) hopes to be the biggest gainer in the Grand Alliance. In the 2015 assembly election, the CPI(ML) had bagged three seats. It had won seven seats in the 2005 polls. The party secured six seats in the 2000 election and in 2010, it had failed to get any seat. "The leads so far are on expected lines and we hope to catch up in three more seats. This was a different kind of election. This was more of a people's movement. We banked on young candidates like student leaders, candidates who were part of farmer struggles and working class people. That seemed to have worked. "The 25-point campaign charter of the Mahagathbandhan is the demands emerging in the course of the teachers' movement, skill workers' movement over the last few years. The Left parties have set the agenda, the people of Bihar set the agenda for us. This is a big gain for the Left," CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said. Party leaders also highlighted how cadres worked among the poor, became first responders in crisis among their constituents and led movements against unemployment, corruption in education and farm rights, to gain the trust of voters. "We have been working with the poor in the state since the 1990s, mainly with the Dalits and the EBCs. We have played the lonely vocal opposition voice in the Vidhan Sabha on the rights of the poor. Over the last five years, we have built an image which is based on goodwill and faith. Electoral victories are not just about numbers, it is about chemistry. This time things came together. "This election, wherever the RJD and CPI(ML) have come together, the Grand Alliance has done well," N Balaji, the national president of CPI(ML) students' wing All India Students Association, said. On his party's decision to go with the RJD despite being opposed to it earlier, Balaji, who campaigned extensively in Bihar, said the party (RJD) currently led by Tejashwi Yadav and the one led by his father Lalu Prasad were "two different entities". CPI(ML) leaders also pointed out that this was perhaps the first time that the youth and student leaders had actively participated and some even contested the elections. Out of the 19 candidates that the party fielded this time, six are under 35 years of age and 10 are below 50. Among the party's winning candidates, Sandeep Saurav, 33, won from Paliganj constituency after defeating the JD(U) candidate. Saurav, a former JNUSU general secretary and an AISA activist, gave up his job as an assistant professor to fight the polls. CPI-ML's other candidate Manoj Manzil, 36, won by over 50,000 votes from Agiaon. He was earlier arrested after filing his nomination from the constituency. Manzil is known for leading the 'Sadak Par School' movement in Bhojpur against unemployment. He is also a prominent leader among the Dalit community. Ajit Kumar Singh (34), who won the Dumraon seat, is the state president of Revolutionary Youth Association. He is a former AISA Bihar state secretary and has completed his doctoral studies in history of farmers' agitation in Bihar. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/india/news/checkout-here-bihar-assembly-election-2020-results-and-updates-online/articleshow/79142084.cms">Bihar Election Results 2020: Outcome of 28 constituencies announced, NDA leads with five more seats than the Grand Alliance</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/defense/news/prime-minister-modi-hits-out-pakistan-and-china-during-sco-summit-attempts-are-being-made-to-rake-bilateral-issues/articleshow/79148767.cms">Prime Minister Modi takes a dig at Pakistan and China during SCO summit — ‘attempts are being made to rake up bilateral issues’</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/instagram-down-users-complain-of-frozen-timelines-and-likes/articleshow/79146012.cms">Instagram down for over four hours— users complain of frozen timelines and likes</a>

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<ul><li><keyword id="10056242" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="political-shakti">Political Shakti</keyword>’s, a non-partisan collective formed to encourage more women to join the parliament, latest campaign before <keyword id="175111" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bihar-elections">Bihar Elections</keyword> reminds the audience that more women in leadership positions will make for a better democracy.</li><li>The campaign is conceptualised by FCB Ulka.</li></ul>Political Shakti, a non-partisan collective that aims to bring more women in leadership positions in politics, has launched a powerful campaign before Bihar Elections. Conceptualised by FCB, the ad film demands political power for women. Its objective is to enable more women to be elected as MLAs &amp; MPs in the parliament. It talks about how women in India lack basic rights today. Titled Half Is Ours/Aadha Humara, the short film uses two common languages spoken in Bihar i.e., Bhojpuri &amp; Maithili. It puts light on important social issues such as child marriage, lack of access to clean and seperate toilets for girls in school, alarming rate of sexual violence against women in India. <div type="Youtube" id="LOUpkvQWaY0" title="Shakti Half Is Ours/Aadha Humara" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LOUpkvQWaY0/mqdefault.jpg"></div> The ad film leaves the audience with a very important question, “When you can’t see us, how can you see your issues?” To build a safe environment for women in India, it is important to address their issues and let the leaders voice every woman’s concerns in the parliament. More women will make for a better democracy and a happier country, reminds the ad. It has also launched a ‘Selfie Campaign’ that encourages mukhiyas, sarpanches, and women leaders in politics that support Shakti’s cause to click a selfie and advocate for gender equality in politics within their party. For every 10 men in Vidhan Sabha, there is less than 1 woman. Women constitute only 11.8% (64 of 543) seats in the Lok Sabha and 11% (27 out of 245) seats in the Rajya Sabha. A 2017 report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women said that between 2010 and 2017, the share of women representatives in the Lok Sabha rose only by 1%. To bridge this gap, Shakti has also joined hands with 120+ Bihar organizations, universities &amp; eminent personalities to demand 50% MLA tickets for women.

This campaign ahead of the Bihar elections reminds people that the country needs more women in politics to help end discrimination against women

Patna, Former Bihar CM <keyword id="20102182" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rabri-devi" source="keywords">Rabri Devi</keyword> on Monday filed nomination papers for election to the state legislative council, besides three other candidates of her RJD and one of alliance partner CPI(ML) Liberation. Three candidates of the BJP, including former minister and state unit chief Mangal Pandey, also filed their nomination papers. Rabri Devi reached the Vidhan Sabha secretariat along with her husband Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, and sons <keyword id="19916246" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tejashwi-yadav" source="keywords">Tejashwi Yadav</keyword> and <keyword id="20196796" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tej-pratap-yadav" source="keywords">Tej Pratap Yadav</keyword>. The other RJD candidates who filed nomination papers were Abdul Bari Siddiqui, Syed Faisal Ali and Urmila Thakur. CPI(ML) Liberation's Shashi Yadav also filed nomination papers. Tejashwi Yadav, a former Deputy CM and the leader of multi-party <keyword id="19941767" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mahagathbandhan" source="keywords">Mahagathbandhan</keyword>, told reporters, "It is a matter of delight that our coalition has fielded three women." While Yadav's mother is seeking re-election to the upper house for a third consecutive term, Siddiqui, a veteran leader, has had a three-year-long stint in the council in the 1990s, besides having been elected to the assembly several times. The other Mahagathbandhan candidates will be making their debut in the Vidhan Parishad. Yadav, however, declined to take questions on former Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan, who is in the NDA but has dropped hints that he could switch sides if he got a better deal. CPI(ML) Liberation legislative party leader Mehboob Alam told reporters, "Let Chirag make clear his stand. His late father Ram Vilas Paswan had been our ally. If he, too, decides to junk the BJP, we shall welcome him." Congress legislative party leader Shakil Ahmed Khan, who was also present on the occasion, was asked about some leaders of his party expressing dissatisfaction that "despite having 17 MLAs", it was not fielding a candidate for legislative council polls. Notably, elections are being held for 11 seats, the terms of which are to end in May. Of these, one seat was held by senior Congress leader Prem Chandra Mishra. However, Khan said, "Our party is democratic and all people are allowed to express their opinions. But this is not an issue. We got our candidate elected to the Rajya Sabha recently. We are now helping our alliance partner (CPI-ML)." After the Mahagathbandhan candidates, it was the turn of Mangal Pandey, besides BJP debutantes Anamika Singh Patel and Lal Mohan Gupta to file their nomination papers. They filed their nomination papers in the presence of Samrat Choudhary, Deputy Chief Minister and state BJP president, besides Jitan Ram Manjhi, ex-CM, whose HAM is an NDA partner and whose son Santosh Suman is also seeking re-election to the legislative council. Suman, who is a minister in the <keyword id="19907431" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nitish-kumar" source="keywords">Nitish Kumar</keyword> cabinet, filed his nomination papers last week, along with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) MLC Khalid Anwar. The last date for withdrawal of nomination papers is March 14 and voting, if required, will take place on March 21.

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<keyword id="6360371" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="jharkhand">Jharkhand</keyword> is the 28th state in India and was formed only in 2008 after carving it out of the state of Bihar for administrative reasons. Presently, the state is ruled by the BJP government following its victory in 2014 Vidhan Sabha elections conducted in the state. Assembly Elections 2019 in Jharkhand were conducted to select the government that will rule the state for the next five years. The five phased election was scheduled between November 30 and December 20, 2019. The votes will be counted on December 23 with the results declared on the same day. Exit poll results 2019 for BJP Having casted their votes, the voters are now eagerly waiting to know the results of the elections along with the rest of the country that is curious to find out who will rule the state for the next term. The exit poll results are out and the following predictions reflect the post poll opinion collected from the voters with regard to BJP. India Today-My Axis pollster predicts that BJP is going to fall behind the Congress – JMM – RJF alliance scoring only between 22-32 seats in the 81 seats assembly. The vote share of the BJP is estimated at 34%. C-Voter exit polls predict 28 to 36 seats for the BJP. Poll of polls says BJP has the possibility of scoring not more than 29 seats. 2014 Election results for BJP In the 2014 elections, BJP had scored 37 seats lacking only 5 seats out of the clear majority of 42 seats. The JMM had won 19 seats coming in second place.

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