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

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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 ----- 
  From: Ram Sarangapani 
  To: Chan Mahanta 
  Cc: ASSAMNET 
  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 <cmahanta at charter.net> 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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