Predict poll results and win Rs 10 lakh: Rationalists' challenge astrologers

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April 25, 2014
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Mangalore, Apr 25: In a bid to prove that astrology is not a science, the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA), an organsiation working for superstition eradication, has announced a contest for astrologers. The astrologers who would correctly predict the election results would get a prize of Rs 10 lakh.

The president of FIRA, Narendra Nayak said in a press release, said that the participants will have to make 20 predictions related to poll candidates and parties.

He said, “We have been inviting all those who claim supernatural powers of prediction to come forward and show their efficiency but forecasting the results for the elections from many decades. The
elections of 2014 are the most interesting ones and most important from the point of view of the nation. We would like to test the acumen of these innumerable such claimants from all corners of this country and hence have put forward this offer of one million Indian rupees to those who can correctly predict the results of the elections of 2014 within the limits of accuracy and the conditions specified herein.”
Questions:

1.Who will be the next Prime Minister of India?
2. Which party or combination of parties will come to power (if it is
an alliance details of the constituents have to be provided). Number of seats which will be won by each party within an error margin of + 5%(ranges are not acceptable)
3. Bharatiya Janatha Party
4. Indian National Congress
5. Trinamool congress.
6. Bahujan Samajwadi Party.
7. Samajwadi party
8 ADMK
9.DMK
10.Janata Dal (U)
11.Janta Dal(secular)
12.CPI(M)
13.AAP
The number of votes that will be obtained by the following candidates
within an error margin of + 5% (ranges are not acceptable)
14.Narendra Modi at Varanasi
15.Rahul Gandhi at Amethi
16. Arvind Kejriwal at Varanasi
17.B Janardhan Poojary at Mangalore
18.L K Advani at Gandhi Nagar
19.Murali Manohar Joshi at Lucknow
20.Sonia Gandhi at Rai Bareli
Those whose entries shall be all correct within a range of 5%
margin that is 19 answers right out of the 20 shall be eligible for
the prize of rupees ten lakhs. In case of more than one entry being
correct, the prize amount shall be equally distributed among the right
entrants.
If no answers are received within the specified ranges the prize
money will be retained.

Terms and conditions:
1. One individual can send only one entry.
2. The entries have to be in the written form and can be posted to the
following address:
Narendra Nayak
13-9-122/2, V.T.Road
Mangalore -575 001
3. The last date for the receipt of entries will be 12th of May, 2014
4. No responsibility will be taken for any of the entries delayed in
post, lost or not received.
5. The predictions are to be made under the confidence limits
prescribed for each of the questions and no ranges are acceptable as
they are already incorporated into the questions.
6. The results of the elections will be verified by those sending the
entries and it shall not be my responsibility to inform any of those
sending entries except the winner/s.
7. The prize amount offered is Indian rupees 10, 00,000 (rupees
ten lakhs only).
8. No correspondence will be entered into with any of the contestants.
9. All entries are to be sent in English only.
10. Any litigation arising from this will be subject to the
jurisdiction of courts at Mangalore only.
11. All entries shall carry the full postal address, telephone number
and the method used to make the predictions.
12. A synopsis of the entries received along with a detailed analysis
shall be published within 24 hours of the last day of receipt that is
12th May.
13. We shall not be responsible for providing any inputs regarding the
date of birth, time of filing the nomination or anything else that may
be considered necessary for making the predictions. It is the
responsibility of those sending the entries to obtain these.

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