My parents live in madurai and they told me that DMK men distributed Rs.500/- for each vote. Currency notes are put up in an envelop and distributed in the colony / flat. Election commission should take serious view of this and debar Azhagiri from contesting the election.
Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by Bharat Bhushan on May 13, 2009 03:14 PM
This practice has become so open, that the Election Commission seems to believe it can do nothing about it. On the other hand a man like T N Seshan put the fear of God in all parties, when he was the CEC. Newspaper reports narrated how, party workers campaigning for a candidate, sitting for a frugal breakfast in a roadside restaurant in Ahmedabad, literally left their "nashta" uneaten, and ran away. Because an EC video team was covering their action which would be used to tot up the amount of money a candidate was spending!
Re: Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by Bharat Bhushan on May 13, 2009 03:28 PM
Imagine the amount of money that is being spent in this way. If you have a million voters, and you believe a 100-250,000 are necessary for your success, you dole out Rs. 500 to 2.5 lakhs people, you spend 12.5 crores as a direct inducement. Add other costs, and we are talking of expenditure in the region of 50 crores per candidate from the leading parties. The sum total of poll expenditure of all prime candidates will be mind-boggling.
So, for all the fulminations, praise and brickbats we shower at, what we naively believe, OUR LEADERS and OUR PARTY, the parties have a very clear idea of the real core issues involved in getting elected!
Say whatever you will, at a certain level, this reduces us to the status of a banana republic. The talk of India being a representative democracy, with universal franchise...is just that, TALK.
Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by Kumar Raj on May 13, 2009 03:10 PM
Dont go to election EC its useless.Put the notes in your pocket and vote the right candidate.Its only when such people loose both money and election they realise that Indians are No more fools to seel votes for money.
Re: Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by srinivasan mv on May 13, 2009 03:31 PM
Even if Azhagiri loses, it is no big issue. DMK will award more contracts and earn double the money with vengeance. At the end, you pay taxes and get poor infrastructure.
Re: Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by srinivasan mv on May 13, 2009 03:31 PM
Even if Azhagiri loses, it is no big issue. DMK will award more contracts and earn double the money with vengeance. At the end, you pay taxes and get poor infrastructure.
Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by Takur on May 13, 2009 03:32 PM
you didnt say, your parents took the money or didnt take the money or they didnt give oney to your parents at all ????
Re: DMK Azhagiri distributed money
by babu jaikaran on May 13, 2009 03:46 PM
It is too bad that they distributed money,Ec should investigate and punish the culprits.
Re: New News Website. Have a look
by Amit Sharma on May 13, 2009 03:03 PM
Hey friends Check out how west finances sir desai's new site. the ch am ha fails to mention that the site is run by sir desai's mafi osis.
Re: New News Website. Have a look
by Amit Sharma on May 13, 2009 03:03 PM
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Re: Sampoorna Swatantrata
by ramachandran nair on May 13, 2009 03:15 PM
i... Dhandu.....eliminate her politically if you can - I mean by ballots - if not, accept the reality. Your packing Sonia to Italy is only a wishful thinking of yours. while on board, at lteast have some decency and decorum. I am ashmed to treat to you as indian.
Re: Sampoorna Swatantrata
by Tiki padhi on May 13, 2009 03:00 PM
please make a correction. Quatrochi is not sonia's uncle.Quatrochi is sonia's boy friend and playboy.
Re: Sampoorna Swatantrata
by Kumar Raj on May 13, 2009 03:06 PM
Well said.But be careful you may be tagged communal coz then it will be a hindu festival gain.
Re: Re: Sampoorna Swatantrata
by Vijayakumar MP on May 13, 2009 03:18 PM
Before Sonia entered India political scene India was very rich and highly disciplined. There was no corruption in our country and people were happy with no unemployment at all. All our netas were very sincere. Once Sonia leaves India our nation will regain the glory of the past. One of her main fault is that she deprived the nation of watching the spectacle of shaven heads of Uma Bharati and Sushma Swaraj by reusing the PM's post.
Re: Re: Re: Sampoorna Swatantrata
by Bharat Bhushan on May 13, 2009 04:31 PM
Now, after Sonia has entered, the Holy Trinity has ushered in Paradise. We are now the Garden of Eden, Vijayakumar MP?
Re: Re: Re: Sampoorna Swatantrata
by Bharat Bhushan on May 13, 2009 04:30 PM
She is an ambitious, calculating person. There's no way she would have refused the PM's post if it had come without issues. It's more than possible that she did not have the nerve to go ahead, and ultimately acknowledged to herself that she was a foreigner.
