Fwd: here is the wirte up of oue challenges
narendra nayak
From: narendra nayak <nare...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Subject: Fwd: here is the wirte up of oue challenges
To: "RAMCHANDRA a.k.a. SOMU RAO" <rgra...@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: here is the wirte up of oue challenges
To: Kalanathan U <ukala...@gmail.com>, sudip_...@yahoo.co.in, rahul singh <sing...@hotmail.com>, humans....@gmail.com
Subject: here is the wirte up of oue challenges
To: Ajita Kamal <ajita...@gmail.com>
Dear Ajita,
Here is the write up with a photo.
NN
Astrology flops again
When yours truly was questioned at a press conference as to what his predictions would be for the Lokha Sabha elections of 2009, the reply was that one thing would be proved for sure in this election. I said it would be difficult to hazard a guess as to who would come to power and which candidates would be victorious. But, one thing I said I could predict that was that astrology would prove itself to be a super flop this time too. That was one prediction that came true. If one recalls we have been repeating these challenges from nearly two decades since 1991 whenever elections happen. The reward money started with one lakh and was oncreased to 10 lakhs from 2008 onwards. This press conference was held at the Mangalore Press club to release the challenge to predict the lection results of the Lok Sabha election. Though the challenge was directed at those who claimed to have supernatural powers, others were not barred from sending entries. For details of these challenges and the terms and conditions, the box along with this write up can be referred to. The terms and conditions are also outlined therein.
While trounce of Bharathiya Janatha Party and the unexpected victory of the UPA was quite a surprise to many, it has come as a total dampener for those who had the powers of ‘prediction’. The total number of entries delivered to us was 400 including 31 which were received after the last date for the receipt, 16th of May the date on which counting was done.
My prediction about astrology had come true this time as the following will indicate. Out of the 370 received before the 26th May, 175 had predicted that NDA would win the election and L.K.Advani would be the next Prime minister. The next in the list was Manmohan Singh whose name was proposed by 99 entrants who had obviously stated that the NDA combination would come to power. Next in the list was Rahul Gandhi with 14, Pranabh Mukherji with 9 and Sonia Gandhi with 7 proposers. Mayavathi’s name was mentioned by 12 who had predicted that the third front would gain power this time. Deve Gowda, Jayalaltiha had their handful of supporters. While some individuals had predicted our own Kumaranna, Prakash Karat etc., one of the Advani admirers had stated that Narendra Modi would be taking over from him after a year or so!
Another thing of note was that the obvious leaning of the people depending on their religious beliefs. Most of the astrologere were Advani supporters and also many of the others carried their Hindutva on the entries with slogans like Jai Sriram, Om, invocations to their respective deities or swamijis etc. The minorities were solidly behind UPA and most of their entries were pro congress and named Manmohan Singh as the next prime minister. The techniques claimed to be used by those sent their entries were many. Some of them had no claims to any supernatural power, they were only guessing and trying their luck Some Muslims claimed that their predictions were by the power of Allah. One of the Christian entrants prophesied that his was the voice of God and had also enclosed claims about the previous times when he had predicted things by this power and they had come true. However, though this voice was right about UPA and Manmohan Singh it was a total flop when it came to specifics. The voice was very much silent on these and hence this entry had to be disqualified. One of the entries from Uttara Kannada asked us to send him 3oo rupees for having sent the entry if he did not get the prize. Another from Shimoga was from a young man who claimed that his family had lost everything due to involvement in politics, I should hand over the 10 lakhs to him which could set right their financial problems. Many had also awarded votes to one Sheena Rai whose name was listed as a candidate for Kasargod Lok Sabha constituency and had not even filed his nomination. Some predicted that he would win a huge margin! He as well as a non existent party called as the Bharathiya Samjawadi Party were treated as real entities by the predictors who included the astrologers too! The latter mentioned was allotted anything from 20 to a single seat by the entrants.
While most of the predictions were total flops one from Chitradurga had 6 right out of the 25 answers and got the highest marks. The entry did not state the supernatural power used to predict and hence we can safely assume that it was guess work. Another welcome aspect was that the wide publicity accorded had us receive entries from places as far as West Bengal. Though most of them were from Karnataka, some were from Andhra, Tamilnadu and Kerala. Our member organizations had their own contests from Hyderabad with a one crore rupee award and another one from Kolkatta promised an award of 25 lakhs.
This miserable performance of the astrologers and also those who try to predict things by supernatural powers should be an eye opener to our gullible people who tend to take decisions based on the advice of such people. I retain my money which shall be at stake to test more claimants of supernatural powers.
Narendra Nayak
President Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations
101, Noel Park
Microwave station road
Mangalore -575 006
Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations
101, Noel Park, Microwave station road
Mangalore -575 006
Mangalore
3rd May, 2009
An award of one million rupees to predict election results
Whenever elections come around those who can predict the results and also claim to influence them have a field day. This election in Karnataka alone there have been estimates that about a billion rupees have been spent on propitiating various types of gods and such spirits to influence the victories of the candidates. This being the state of affairs we feel that we could put forward a challenge to such people to predict the results of the Lok Sabha Elections, 2009 and earn a million rupees. This is not the first time that we have given such an opportunity to people who have such powers, we have been doing that since nearly two decades whenever elections come around.
Subject to the conditions laid down which are stated at the end of this handout, we invite all those who have the powers of prediction by any means supernatural or otherwise to answer the following questions pertaining to the Lok Sabha elections,2009 and earn one million rupees only. It may be noted that many of the astrologers had wanted to know the timing of filing of nominations, the dates of polling, dates of counting etc. to be able to foretell the results properly. We are giving them all these opportunities to enable them to make their predictions accurately. However, the entries should be received by the last date specified herein. All entries are to be sent to this address:
Narendra Nayak
13-9-1220/2, Vithoba Temple Road, Mangalore-575 001
Questions:
- Who will be the next prime minister of India?
- Which party, combination of parties will come to power? The name of the single party should be clearly specified. If a combination of Parties is mentioned each one should be named.
- How many seats will each of the parties win? The answers should be in units- Ranges are not acceptable- correct to the nearest unit in case of single digit and ±10% if the number is more than single digit.
- Indian National Congress b. Bharathiya Janatha Party c. Communist party of India(Marxist) d. Communist party of India e. Samajwadi party d. Rashtriya Janatha Dal e. Janatha Dal (secular) f. Janatha Dal United g. Dravida Munnetra Kalagham h. All India Dravida Munnetra Kalagham i. Trinamool Congress j.Bahujan Samjawadi Party k. Bharathiya Samajwadi Party.
4. The votes polled by each of the candidates to the nearest ten thousand ±10% error
To be specified- range is not acceptable-
- Sonia Gandhi at Rae Bareily b. Shashi Tharoor at Trivandrum c. Varun
Gandhi at Pilhibit d. J.P.Hegde at Udupi- Chikmaglur e. S.Bangarappat Shimoga f. B.Y.Raghavendra at Shimoga g. Sheena Rai at Kasargod. h.George Fernandes at Muzaffapur i.Lal Krishna Advani at Gandhi nagar. J.Janardhan Poojary at Mangalore. k.Murali Manohar Joshi at Varanasi
Terms and conditions:
- Entries are to be sent in English or Kannada or Hindi.
- One person is eligible to only one entry.
- Entries are to be sent by post or courier only. Entries in any other form shall not be accepted.
- The prize money of one million rupees will be awarded only to that person/s whose predictions shall be within 80% limits of error. That is out of the twenty five answers a minimum of 20 shall be right. If more than one person gets the highest number of right answers, the award money shall be equally divided among them.
- All questions shall be compulsorily answered.
- Each right answer shall carry one mark. No marks will be deducted for wrong answers, not attempted questions.
- For any answer to be considered as right, it should be within the specifications mentioned in the question.
- As already mentioned above the minimum level of marks obtained shall be 20 out of 25 for any one to be eligible for the award.
- The decision of the President shall be final in deciding the awardees.
- Only those entries that be received by the 16th of May, 2009 shall be eligible to be considered for the award. No responsibility will be accepted for any delays in post or any other reason.
For the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations
(Narendra Nayak- President)
