I am surprised that people in US seem to be shocked.In India, we have the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,M.Karunanidhi,in his earlier tenure, had made the father of a student of a University, who was killed in police shooting when he joined the protest against the University conferring Honorary Doctorate on Karunanidhi(who is totally ineligible) to declare that the slain student was not his son;recently his son’s followers attacked a news paper office for having carried an unfavorable report about his another son(incidentally the paper is being run by his nephew)and killed a worker;the case was dropped subsequent to his patching up with his nephew.
Have a heart.
What you are not witnessing in US is peanuts.
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Gov. David A. Paterson personally directed two state employees to contact the woman who had accused his close aide of assaulting her, according to two people with direct knowledge of the governor’s actions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/nyregion/02paterson.html
Tag: Politicians
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Paterson Is Said to Have Ordered Calls in Abuse Case-This is peanuts!
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Anger as MoD pay $84000 for General’s Mansion as rent.
Indian politicians and officials are not far behind.In fact this is nothing .
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The Ministry of Defence is blowing £7,000 a month renting plush homes for top brass while soldiers live in squalor.Handsomely-paid generals and brigadiers are given the lavish perk to live in luxury despite a £36billion black hole in the defence budget.
But troops and their families – including those fighting in Afghanistan – must endure ageing barracks with leaking roofs, broken boilers, faulty wiring, cracked windows and damp.
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MPs to be Charged over expenses.
Countless number of Commissions/Enquiries, and Criminal Indictments have been made by appropriate authorities in India:one continues to be Prime Minister,one killer as federal Minister,rapist as Minster,many corrupt politicians who have been found guilty are in power.Worse still, people continue electing them which makes these criminals declare have been vindicated by the PEOPLE’;these people will never be convicted,irrespective of who comes to power,after all thieves belong together
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Three Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has said.MPs Elliot Morley, Jim Devine, David Chaytor and Lord Hanningfield will be charged under the Theft Act.
All four have said they denied any charges and would defend their positions robustly.
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Revealed: Ministers, shadow ministers and MPs who fought expenses judgement
Politics has come to mean swindling in Public and that too legally.One can not agree more with the statement ‘Politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel’
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Ministers and shadow ministers are among 70 MPs who lodged appeals after being told to pay back some of their taxpayer-funded Commons expenses, it can be disclosed.
Seven current members of the Government, two Conservative front benchers, 15 former ministers and one former party leader have appealed against Sir Thomas Legg’s demands for repayment.The official Commons list has been obtained by the The Sunday Telegraph ahead of Thursday’s publication of Sir Thomas’s report on the scandal.
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Scandal snares big guns – Murder, incest cloud on satrap
Bhopal, Dec. 21: A former legislator who is said to have used pythons to terrorise women into submitting to his will was arrested last night in connection with the murder of his sister’s granddaughter amid suspicions of incest.
Ashok Vir Vikram Singh, 66, alias Bhaiya Raja, was picked up from a hospital more than a week after the bullet-riddled body of Nisha, an aspiring fashion designer, was found on the outskirts of Bhopal.
The unmarried 20-year-old, who stayed in a hostel in the Madhya Pradesh capital, had an abortion recently. Asked about the possible motive, Bhopal DIG Ashok Awasthi said: “It is of a personal nature. I would not like to get into details. We have 90 days to file the chargesheet. We have concrete evidence and (will) spell out everything in the chargesheet.”
Senior police officials handling the case said Nisha’s mother and sister kept stressing on the socially unacceptable conduct of the suspect.
For the next few days, it remained a blind murder till the police came to know Nisha had terminated her pregnancy at Indore recently. The police also learnt she was being sexually exploited.
Bhaiya Raja, whose wife Asha Rani is a BJP MLA, was then summoned by Bhopal police from his hometown Chhattarpur, 287km from the state capital.
He was questioned but kept denying his involvement. At a news conference, he even taunted the police. “Am I a fool to commit such a crime when you can get it done for Rs 25,000?” he said.
Bhaiya Raja also told the media as well as the police that his driver, Halke, who he claimed was having an affair with Nisha, might have killed her.
The driver was picked up and reportedly cracked during interrogation, saying the politician had conspired to get Nisha killed to eliminate evidence.
Bhaiya Raja got himself admitted to a city hospital claiming chest pain and high blood pressure. But the cops produced a discharge slip from doctors saying he was well enough to be taken into custody.
The arrest came two days after Bhaiya Raja managed to get an audience with chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan to claim his innocence. Some influential Delhi-based Congress and BJP leaders also intervened but DIG Awasthi and IG Shailendra Srivastava stood up to the political pressure.
Considered a terror in Bundelkhand, Bhaiya Raja’s first brush with notoriety came two decades ago when the nephew of then Union home minister Buta Singh was killed in a farmhouse of another politician. Bhaiya Raja was arrested and remained in jail for a long time before earning reprieve from a trial court.
In 1992, Madhya Pradesh police demolished “Jal Mahal”, a part of his Chhattarpur residence that reportedly housed pythons and alligators.
Bhaiya Raja even figured in a book — The Indian Mafia (Law Research Institute, Calcutta) — in which the author, Srikanta Ghosh, had said: “Bhaiya Raja is a feudal overlord and dubbed as a terror of Bundelkhand.”
He is “reputed” to have used “pythons to terrorise women to submit to his will”, the book said. “As many as 32 cases have been registered against him.”
In the 1993 Assembly polls, when Bhaiya Raja won as an Independent, old-timers recalled a slogan: “Stamp elephant (his symbol) or face bullet in the chest.”
In 1998, he won again but as a Samajwadi Party MLA.
Nisha’s friends said she was an extrovert but for the past two months had not been attending classes regularly.
Nisha, whose real name is Vasundhara Bundela, may have had some inkling of what was coming. “…from my previous relations,” she wrote hours before her death on a social networking site, “I have learnt not to trust anyone.”
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