Predict Winners of Elections and Win 1 Crore

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 19:38 IST   |    2 Comments
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Bangalore: Win a prize of 1 crore if you can predict which party is winning how many seats in the assembly elections in the five poll bound states. It is amusing but true.

In an attempt to get people out of the clutches of superstitions and inculcate scientific approach, Tarksheel(rational) society has challenged the astrologers and fortune tellers to predict winners in the ongoing assembly polls and win 1 crore.

Term it a publicity stunt or a challenge but Tarksheel society Bharat has announced to award Rs 1 crore and has put the challenge on social networking sites such as Facebook as well.

The only condition laid is that the winner will have to predict correctly at least 24 out of a total of 30 varied questions. The questions are - who will be next CM in UP, Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttrakhand, how many seats each party Congress, BJP, SAD will win in Punjab, how many seats BSP, SP, Congress, BJP, RLD, JD(U) will win in UP, how many votes Amarinder Singh, PS Badal, Sukhbir Badal, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal will obtain, with an error margin of 10 percent, how many women will win in UP, what will be the exact number of seats each party will win in Manipur, Uttrakhand and Goa.

Society founder Megh Raj Mittar said "the award has been floated to discourage astrologers from fooling people and claim that they have supernatural powers," as reported by The Times of India.

Megh Raj said anyone is free to predict but if more than one person predicts correctly, the award money will be divided. He said that neatly typed or printed answers could be sent by March 4 before poll results are announced on March 6. He said that all the questions are compulsory to answer and anyone wanting to participate in this test must deposit a fee of one thousand.

Society publishes scientific magazine ‘Vigyan Jyot’ and it also runs a campaign to encourage people to donate their body after death for medical research purposes.