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The winter of our austerity by P Sainath

Growing numbers of elected representatives fund their poll campaigns with corporate backing. And growing numbers of people with a big business background have ventured directly into the electoral arena.  Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s call for restraint, however mild, on the CEO feeding frenzy at the compensation trough, seems the least objectionable statement made by a Minister in months. (Contrast this, for example, with the Agriculture Minister’s warning that people...

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Haryana poll scene awash with Crorepatis by Sukhbir Siwach

Ahead of elections, Congress like all other parties has the aam admi on its lips. But most of its candidates waving the common man banner for the October 13 assembly vote are far from common. A survey of 489 candidates, about half of the candidates in the fray, shows that more than 50% are Crorepatis. According to affidavits of candidates analysed by National Election Watch, a citizen action group working...

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