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ਸੋ ਦਰੁ | So Dar
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ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
Ashtpadiyan (53-71)
Gurbani (71-74)
Pahre (74-78)
Chhant (78-81)
Vanjara (81-82)
Vaar Siri Raag (83-91)
Bhagat Bani (91-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
Ashtpadi (109)
Ashtpadiyan (110-129)
Ashtpadi (129-130)
Ashtpadiyan (130-133)
Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
Vaar Maajh Ki (137-150)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
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Baavan Akhari (250-262)
Sukhmani (262-296)
Thittee (296-300)
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Gurbani (323-330)
Ashtpadiyan (330-340)
Baavan Akhari (340-343)
Thintteen (343-344)
Vaar Kabir (344-345)
Bhagat Bani (345-346)
ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
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Chhant (435-462)
Vaar Aasaa (462-475)
Bhagat Bani (475-488)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="kds1980" data-source="post: 105965" data-attributes="member: 1178"><p><a href="http://www.rediff.com/forwards.html" target="_blank">http://www.rediff.com/forwards.html</a><span style="color: #0055cc"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0055cc"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0055cc"><a href="http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/click.cgi/www.rediff.com/textlinks.htm/1050715198@Top/2207142_2199522/2202155/1?PARTNER=4&OAS_QUERY=null" target="_blank"></a></span></p><p><span style="color: #0055cc"><a href="http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/click.cgi/www.rediff.com/textlinks.htm/1050715198@Top/2207142_2199522/2202155/1?PARTNER=4&OAS_QUERY=null" target="_blank"></a></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> July 04, 2009 10:35 IST</p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The Election Commission has now officially taken up the investigation of charges of rigging and fraud through the Electronic Voting Machines.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=navin%20chawla" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> is sitting over a major scandal of a possible massive rigging of elections by manipulation of software of the Electronic Voting Machines.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">But for the charge levelled by a former Delhi <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=delhi" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> chief secretary five years senior to him in the Indian Administrative Service cadre, Chawla would have rejected such claims of rigging.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Omesh Saigal, a 1964 batch IAS officer of the Union Territory, stunned him with a presentation to force him to order an inquiry into any possibility of such a rigging. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Chawla is himself a Union Territory cadre IAS of 1969 batch.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Deputy Election Commissioner Balakrishnan has been asked to conduct the inquiry on the basis of a report handed over by Saigal to the CEC, with a software he got developed to show how the elections can be rigged.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saigal, who is an Indian Institute of Technology alumni, has demanded an urgent check of the programme that runs the EVMs used in elections since 2004. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">He demonstrated with his software that its manipulation ensured that one has to just key in a certain code number and that will ensure every fifth vote cast in a particular polling booth goes in favour of a certain candidate.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In his letter to the CEC, Saigal alleged that the software written onto the EVMs has never been checked by the Election Commission ever since these machines were manufactured than 6-7 years back. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">His contention is that the EC merely relied on the certificates supplied by the manufacturers, the government-run BEL and ECIL. He alleged that these government firms had subcontracted private parties who actually provided these certificates.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"A public software audit of these machines from time to time, especially after and before an election, was a must to retain the credibility of the elections," Saigal affirmed, demanding that for the sake of transparency names and ownerships of these private companies must be disclosed, as also the details of the factories where they were actually manufactured. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The records retained in the factories must also be immediately taken over by the EC to prevent any tampering and to facilitate an audit, he said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">He also pointed out how, after nearly two years of deliberation, Germany's <span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">[</span></span><a href="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=germany" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Images</span></a><span style="color: #757577"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">]</span></span> Supreme Court ruled last March that e-voting was unconstitutional because the average citizen could not be expected to understand the exact steps involved in the recording and tallying of votes. Earlier, Ireland had given up e-voting for similar reasons. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">In the United States too, after considerable controversy the Federal Election Commission has come up in 2005 with detailed voting system guidelines which run into more than 400 pages. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saigal said that it is noteworthy that not a single safeguard mentioned in these guidelines are in place in India.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saigal said he had gone into all the safeguards built into the e-voting system in India with the help of former colleagues and IT experts and finds it both 'possible and plausible' to rig these machines and get a crooked result. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"If the credibility of the electoral process is to be ensured, pre- and post-election checks of the software now fused onto the chips of the EVMs is a must," Saigal said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">It is not that all the 10 lakh odd machines used in the poll need to be checked. If we take only those booths where one of the candidates has received 75 per cent of the votes and in constituencies where the </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">margin of the winner is less than 15,000, not more than 7,000-odd machines will need to be checked.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saigal argued in his report that "if we cannot do this we must revert to the paper ballot." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"The need for a fair, free and transparent polling system transcends any reasons anyone may have to the contrary," he added.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><img src="http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <a href="http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.news.rediff.com/general.htm/1243506724/x02/default/empty.gif/37616131376533333437326261666630" target="_blank"><img src="http://imads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/default/empty.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <span style="color: #838383">|</span> <img src="http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kds1980, post: 105965, member: 1178"] [URL="http://www.rediff.com/forwards.html"][COLOR=#0055cc][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#0055cc] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0055cc][URL="http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/click.cgi/www.rediff.com/textlinks.htm/1050715198@Top/2207142_2199522/2202155/1?PARTNER=4&OAS_QUERY=null"] [/URL][/COLOR] July 04, 2009 10:35 IST [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The Election Commission has now officially taken up the investigation of charges of rigging and fraud through the Electronic Voting Machines. Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=navin%20chawla"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] is sitting over a major scandal of a possible massive rigging of elections by manipulation of software of the Electronic Voting Machines. But for the charge levelled by a former Delhi [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=delhi"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] chief secretary five years senior to him in the Indian Administrative Service cadre, Chawla would have rejected such claims of rigging. Omesh Saigal, a 1964 batch IAS officer of the Union Territory, stunned him with a presentation to force him to order an inquiry into any possibility of such a rigging. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Chawla is himself a Union Territory cadre IAS of 1969 batch. Deputy Election Commissioner Balakrishnan has been asked to conduct the inquiry on the basis of a report handed over by Saigal to the CEC, with a software he got developed to show how the elections can be rigged. Saigal, who is an Indian Institute of Technology alumni, has demanded an urgent check of the programme that runs the EVMs used in elections since 2004. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]He demonstrated with his software that its manipulation ensured that one has to just key in a certain code number and that will ensure every fifth vote cast in a particular polling booth goes in favour of a certain candidate. In his letter to the CEC, Saigal alleged that the software written onto the EVMs has never been checked by the Election Commission ever since these machines were manufactured than 6-7 years back. His contention is that the EC merely relied on the certificates supplied by the manufacturers, the government-run BEL and ECIL. He alleged that these government firms had subcontracted private parties who actually provided these certificates. "A public software audit of these machines from time to time, especially after and before an election, was a must to retain the credibility of the elections," Saigal affirmed, demanding that for the sake of transparency names and ownerships of these private companies must be disclosed, as also the details of the factories where they were actually manufactured. The records retained in the factories must also be immediately taken over by the EC to prevent any tampering and to facilitate an audit, he said. He also pointed out how, after nearly two years of deliberation, Germany's [COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana][[/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://search.rediff.com/imgsrch/default.php?MT=germany"][FONT=verdana]Images[/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#757577][FONT=verdana]][/FONT][/COLOR] Supreme Court ruled last March that e-voting was unconstitutional because the average citizen could not be expected to understand the exact steps involved in the recording and tallying of votes. 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If we take only those booths where one of the candidates has received 75 per cent of the votes and in constituencies where the margin of the winner is less than 15,000, not more than 7,000-odd machines will need to be checked. Saigal argued in his report that "if we cannot do this we must revert to the paper ballot." [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]"The need for a fair, free and transparent polling system transcends any reasons anyone may have to the contrary," he added.[/SIZE][/FONT] [IMG]http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif[/IMG] [URL="http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.news.rediff.com/general.htm/1243506724/x02/default/empty.gif/37616131376533333437326261666630"][IMG]http://imads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/default/empty.gif[/IMG][/URL] [COLOR=#838383]|[/COLOR] [IMG]http://im.rediff.com/uim/common/trans.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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