But that is not an example/only example to follow! The saddest thing about Indian MPs is that they are ready to ask a senseless question for even 5000 rupees! Some of the questions were as below:
Whether the Railway Ministry has placed any order for purchase of the Yossarian Electro Diesel engine from Germany? Is the ministry aware that the Tom Wolfe committee report in Germany has halted its induction into the Euro Rail system?
Whether the Government has given sanction for the seed trial of Salinger Cotton of Monsanto? If so, has a report been prepared on Catch 22 cotton so far?
Has the ministry lifted the 1962 ban it imposed on the book For whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and the 1975 ban on Ken Keseys book One Flew Over a Cuckoos Nest and Hunter Thomsons book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? If so, when were the bans removed?
Whether the government is aware that a domestic flying license has been denied to Cobra Cargo for starting operations in India? Since when has Semper Sursum Private Limited, the holding company of Cobra Cargo, applied for the domestic cargo license?
Ha ha ha ...LOL
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 umesh sharma wrote :
>It is sad about Indian MPs but on my lone visit to Capitol Hill I was told by some professional lobbysts that the Congressmen take them seriously (and take up the issues raised at US Congress or Committee hearings) becos they arrange for the funding of their election campaigns. Ofcourse there is a limit of upto 5000 dollars - for an individual funding any candidate - but these guys assured me that their are [lenty of ways of going round it. Abramoff case is a recent example who took millions of dollars from Red Indians (Native Americans) while acting as their lobbyist -some he delivered some he ate up.
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> Umesh
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>Dilip/Dil Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Job well done by the journalists. This is the kind of journalism that will bring change to the established system of graft in India. Any businessman in India you talk to, accept these practices as cost of doing business. The practice will change when the politicians (many no more than local dadas) realize that they are likely to be caught and thrown out.
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> But can you rely on the journalists to be the good guys? I heard in assam that a whole newspaper can be bought and turned against a certain party or a politician.
> In this case I am sure Cobra Post is doing what journalists are suppoesed to do.
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> Dilip
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>priyankoo sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hope everybody is aware of the MPs caught on video tape accepting money to ask questions in the Indian parliament favoring specific organisations. Here is the news:
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>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1327921.cms
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>And here is how the reporters performed the whole exercise of exposing the MPs:
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>http://www.cobrapost.com/documents/one.htm
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