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VIJAYAWADA:  In yet another confrontation with the Election Commission of India, the TDP on Saturday asked the ECI to allow its technical advisor Hari Prasad Vemuru to hold discussions with the ECI on the issue of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and not to look into the criminal case against him (Hari Prasad). 

The TDP’s response came after the ECI asked it to send another expert other than Hari Prasad as he was having a criminal case against him and it contended that no chargesheet was filed against the latter even after nine years.

Earlier in the day, a delegation led by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu met Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and complained about the malfunctioning of EVMs in AP polls and other related issues. Hari Prasad, who was among the delegation, raised several technical issues regarding functioning of EVMs. The ECI too called its technical expert Sudeep Jain, Deputy Election Commissioner, Incharge of EVMs, and decided that apart from Jain, Prof DT Shahani, Chairman, Technical Expert Committee (TEC), will join the discussion in the evening. However, it declined to have a discussion with Hari Prasad. 

“When the technical person came, he turned out to be Hari Prasad, who was involved in a criminal case regarding alleged theft of EVM in 2010 in which FIR was filed at MRA Marg Police Station in Mumbai,’’ ECI Principal Secretary Stanhope Yuhlung said, in his letter addressed to TDP legal cell president and Rajya Sabha member Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar.  

 
 

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He also took up the issue of Naidu’s comments against the ECI to the notice of Governor ESL Narasimhan. “Naidu went to the extent of belittling the ECI appointed Chief Secretary by calling him a ‘co-accused’ and someone who worked as ‘covert agent’. 

There is every possibility that Naidu may even victimise the civil servants who obey the directives of the Election Commission ignoring the ‘interim’ CM’s orders,” Vijayasai Reddy apprehended. Raising the issue of State finances, the MP said that nearly Rs 32,000 crore bills are pending related to last financial year for clearance. “The interim government may resort to clearance of many unbudgeted and unimportant bills favouring their own party leaders,” Vijayasai Reddy said and added that the ‘First Come First Served’ principle should be followed in clearance of bills.

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A group of 13 retired IAS officers shot off a letter to Chief Minister Naidu on Saturday demanding that he withdraw his remarks against Chief Secretary Subramanyam and apologise for the same. The retired IAS officers also found fault with  Naidu for his ‘intimidating behaviour’ with CEO Gopal Krishna Dwivedi.

Taking serious note of Naidu’s comments, the retired IAS officers rallied behind LV Subramanyam and described him as an “outstanding officer.”  “It is unfortunate that the CM is referring to Subrahmanyam as an accused even after the cases against him have been quashed by the High Court,’’ they said. 

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1 hour ago, snoww said:

Sendral saaru national level lo self goals esukuntunnadu 

EC is going to insert the longest rod ever to CBN...

self goals...vayammo..

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EVM ethukapoina donga ni eskoni EVM mida matladanika EC degarikipoindu vaya CBN..

asalu etla kanipistunaru vaa public CBN ki?

inka nayam...IT Grids Ashok gadini eskoni pole...

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The Hack of 2010

So, what happened in the monsoon of 2010?

Prasad, who is currently technology advisor to the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh is also MD of Netindia Private Limited. In August 2010 he had received an actual EVM from an anonymous source. Upon his arrest on charges of theft , the police had claimed that the machine was stolen from a customs house in Mumbai where it was stored.

He collaborated with Halderman, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan, and Gonggrijp, a Dutch technology activist who was instrumental in having EVMs banned in the Netherlands. The three also published a paper on their case study in which they detailed the attacks they carried out on the EVM.

“We had got the EVM machine for just one day and carried out all our experiments in a short period of time. If we had more time we could’ve demonstrated more methods of hacking,” said Prasad.

From L - R: J. Alex Halderman, Hari K. Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp in 2010 From L - R: J. Alex Halderman, Hari K. Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp in 2010 (Photo courtesy: indiaevm.org)
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Eedu EVM ne desham datinchindu...

eedu mamool donga kadu, CBN kante pedda donga...eediki eedu chesina desha drohaniki evado award kuda ichinaru anta

Eedi boss emo imran Khan ki clean chit and doubts the actions of Indian armed forces, eedi chancha gallu emo ekanga EVm’s Ni ethukapoi kathalu padadam...

Donga kodukulu

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Former MP Vundavalli Arunkumar in a letter to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked him how the State Government Fibre Grid Project was awarded to the Tera Software Ltd, a company that has been blacklisted by the State government.

Requesting the Chief Minister to order an inquiry, Mr Arunkumar said that he had documentary evidence establishing a close link between Tera Software Ltd, Tera Media Cloud Solutions Ltd and Heritage Fin Lease Ltd, which belonged to the Chief Minister’s family.

Mr Arunkumar said that GO No. 10 dated August 26, 2015, Infrastructure and Investment Department Vemuru Hari Prasad was appointed in to the tender evaluation committee for Fibre Grid Project.

Mr Prasad was also director of the Tera Media Clound Solutions, a sister concern of Tera Software Ltd, which was the L1 for contract.

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Eedi mida FIR endi thu...eedi mida treason case petali...

oops..2010 ante UPA-led congress government kada, ilanti panulu chesthe chusi chudanattu vadilestaru

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Just now, snoww said:

Former MP Vundavalli Arunkumar in a letter to Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu asked him how the State Government Fibre Grid Project was awarded to the Tera Software Ltd, a company that has been blacklisted by the State government.

Requesting the Chief Minister to order an inquiry, Mr Arunkumar said that he had documentary evidence establishing a close link between Tera Software Ltd, Tera Media Cloud Solutions Ltd and Heritage Fin Lease Ltd, which belonged to the Chief Minister’s family.

Mr Arunkumar said that GO No. 10 dated August 26, 2015, Infrastructure and Investment Department Vemuru Hari Prasad was appointed in to the tender evaluation committee for Fibre Grid Project.

Mr Prasad was also director of the Tera Media Clound Solutions, a sister concern of Tera Software Ltd, which was the L1 for contract.

The former MP further said that the Tera Soft had been blacklisted for a period of one year on May 11, 2015, for non-compliance of EPOS delivery deadlines and barred from participating in any Andhra Pradesh Technology Services tenders. The company was taken off the blacklist within two months and within days of removal from the list it was awarded a huge project, Mr Arunkumar alleged.

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Ie Hari Prasad gadu pedda donga lekka vunnadu...IT Grods Ashok gadikante kuda pedda donga lekka vunnadu...eedini debba eyali vaa...edi mida enquiry vesthe donka kadulutadi

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Hyderabad: The issue of power purchase and launching of Fibre Grid programme from August 15 sparked off a heated debate in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly here on Saturday. Participating in the debate on the Fibre Grid programme, Leader of Opposition YS Jaganmohan Reddy alleged that the main intention of the programme was to gag the voice of the media which was opposed to the TDP. Jagan alleged that the State government had awarded the Fibre Grid project worth of Rs 333 crore to the Tera Software Ltd, a company that was earlier black-listed by the government for its failure in providing e-POS (point of sale) machines at fair price shops. Vemuru Hari Prasad, a director on the board of Tera Software, was also a member of the Tender Evaluation Committee, which awarded the contract to Tera Software. There are also close relations between Tera Soft and Heritage Group," Jagan alleged.

https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2016-03-27/Spar-over-Fibre-Grid/216658

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Just now, snoww said:

Hyderabad: The issue of power purchase and launching of Fibre Grid programme from August 15 sparked off a heated debate in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly here on Saturday. Participating in the debate on the Fibre Grid programme, Leader of Opposition YS Jaganmohan Reddy alleged that the main intention of the programme was to gag the voice of the media which was opposed to the TDP. Jagan alleged that the State government had awarded the Fibre Grid project worth of Rs 333 crore to the Tera Software Ltd, a company that was earlier black-listed by the government for its failure in providing e-POS (point of sale) machines at fair price shops. Vemuru Hari Prasad, a director on the board of Tera Software, was also a member of the Tender Evaluation Committee, which awarded the contract to Tera Software. There are also close relations between Tera Soft and Heritage Group," Jagan alleged.

https://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Andhra-Pradesh/2016-03-27/Spar-over-Fibre-Grid/216658

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