[Assam] The jewel in the Assam politician's cr own -The Statesman

[Ram Sarangapani]

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




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> *"If an average candidate's wealth is calculated at Rs 10.12 lakh, his
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> 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
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> 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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