Its 5 years and another election, another season to bleed the country dry! Who says that we have a slow economic growth rate or even that recession has hit the world economy? Sample this:
§ 14% of national contestants are corepatis
§ Compared to 2004, some contestants assets have grown by a whopping 3000% (and if these are industrialists, career politicians are not far behind)
§ The highest figure this year comes from congress candidate L. Rajagopalan who has DECLARED assets worth 299 crores, understandably so as he is the owner of Lanco.
§ The Karnataka Congress president R.V. Deshpande has finally declared his assets (after refusing to do so) and has shown 1611% growth from 9cr. to 145 cr. But he is a MLA so I suppose it doesn’t count.
§ Both the Congress and BJP are neck and neck with 12 crorepatis each in Karnataka Assembly of the 42 sitting crorepati MLAs. But again it’s a regional figure and doesn’t count as much; after all Capt. Gopinath still comes a distant 7th on the richest contestants list this year.
§ In Delhi a contestant, BL Sharma, declared that after years as a sitting BJP MP (1991, 96) from Delhi (having trounced HKL Bhagat) has nothing more than a paltry Rs.500 in hand and Rs. 15 lakhs in his wife’s name. Oh the Indian politician, nothing but serving the poor and needy!
Everyone heard how NONE of our esteemed national leaders even own a car! Ofcourse they don’t, when there is an entire official cavalcade at their disposal, what better use can there be of the taxpayers’ money!
In all this discussion, we never notice how noone pays a cents notice to the assets declaration of the left party contestants. Surely not because they, in their Bourgeois hating, have no assets altogether?
Well that’s it then, even though our salaries may be increasing at snails pace, someone can claim to be part of the continuously SHINING INDIA.
§ 14% of national contestants are corepatis
§ Compared to 2004, some contestants assets have grown by a whopping 3000% (and if these are industrialists, career politicians are not far behind)
§ The highest figure this year comes from congress candidate L. Rajagopalan who has DECLARED assets worth 299 crores, understandably so as he is the owner of Lanco.
§ The Karnataka Congress president R.V. Deshpande has finally declared his assets (after refusing to do so) and has shown 1611% growth from 9cr. to 145 cr. But he is a MLA so I suppose it doesn’t count.
§ Both the Congress and BJP are neck and neck with 12 crorepatis each in Karnataka Assembly of the 42 sitting crorepati MLAs. But again it’s a regional figure and doesn’t count as much; after all Capt. Gopinath still comes a distant 7th on the richest contestants list this year.
§ In Delhi a contestant, BL Sharma, declared that after years as a sitting BJP MP (1991, 96) from Delhi (having trounced HKL Bhagat) has nothing more than a paltry Rs.500 in hand and Rs. 15 lakhs in his wife’s name. Oh the Indian politician, nothing but serving the poor and needy!
Everyone heard how NONE of our esteemed national leaders even own a car! Ofcourse they don’t, when there is an entire official cavalcade at their disposal, what better use can there be of the taxpayers’ money!
In all this discussion, we never notice how noone pays a cents notice to the assets declaration of the left party contestants. Surely not because they, in their Bourgeois hating, have no assets altogether?
Well that’s it then, even though our salaries may be increasing at snails pace, someone can claim to be part of the continuously SHINING INDIA.
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