The public can also demand (the AASU for example) that thorough
investigations be conducted on these politicians. The AASU is powerful enough to
bring Assam to a standstill, why are such issues ignored. They have taken other
issues and got results, what about something like this?
One idea is to talk to AASU and find out.
But probably they also have too many issues to handle.
I think like you said, we will have to
find who can produce results in spite of corruption.
Now there is only corruption.
Everybody seems to be milking on the
'insurgency' bank.
RB
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:42
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] The jewel in the
Assam politician's cr own -TheStatesman
C'da,
>WHAT are the CHOICES that the voters get?
They have the choice of NOT voting such people into power. The media can
publish the names and the amount of wealth these politicians have acquired and
educate the voters where they stand.
The public can also demand (the AASU for example) that thorough
investigations be conducted on these politicians. The AASU is powerful enough
to bring Assam to a standstill, why are such issues ignored. They have taken
other issues and got results, what about something like this?
>When you can have control over that, THEN you can complain. But
>otherwise you are no different from the clueless voters you so talk
>down to!
If people point out things that are way wrong, they are accused of
'looking down'.
It is only assuming that the voter is helpless, are we saying things like
'Upai nai' or 'kopalot likha ase'.
--Ram
On 3/24/06, Chan
Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WHAT are the CHOICES that the voters get?
When you can have control over that, THEN you can complain. But
otherwise you are no different from the clueless voters you so talk down
to!
At 7:40 PM -0600 3/24/06, Ram Sarangapani wrote:
"If an average candidate's wealth is calculated
at Rs 10.12 lakh, his wife is presented as being in possession of some Rs
27 lakh. " - The Statesman
And yet, the voting public is extremely happy to
re-elect these scoundrels every election cycle.
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The jewel in the Assam politician's
crown
Statesman News Service
GUWAHATI, March 24. -
Assam is considered a poor state but its politicians live lavishly -
apparently because they are married to wealth.
These super-rich wives,
not required to work for a living, are the stay-at-home type, deigning
sometimes to be associated with voluntary organisations. Or, that is the
impression which is being sought to be created.
If their husbands have
power, they have money; oodles of it, going by
affidavits submitted to
the Election Commission by the more than 500 candidates in the first phase
of the forthcoming Assembly polls.
Mandatory declarations indicate that
the combined assets of the candidates' wives would be worth Rs 266 crore.
The candidates' wealth adds up to a mere Rs 82 crore. And Mr Badarudin
Ajmal, perfume mogul who is also the president of the Assam United
Democratic Front (AUDF), alone accounts for Rs 16 crore of it. The
candidates claim to have an average of Rs 3 lakh in cash to fight
the
elections but their wives are said to possess between Rs 6.3 lakh
and
Rs 43 lakh, apart
from jewellery and other assets. If an average
candidate's wealth is calculated at Rs 10.12 lakh, his wife is presented
as being in possession of some Rs 27 lakh.
The candidates' ornaments
total Rs 3.10 crore in value; their wives', Rs 35 crore. Most candidates
have declared that their wives own houses and land in many
places.
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