Amoghavarsha ([info]amoghavarsha) wrote,
@ 2009-04-16 09:13:00
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Decisions easily made...
Yesterday we were at a protest to save lalbagh, whose walls have been illegally demolished and trees illegally cut.

The only election candidate to make a presence there was Capt. Gopinath, where were the others? Busy in coffee day?

Some decisions are easily made. Capt Gopinath atleast has served the country, has had a vision to make air travel affordable and showed up for a cause which south bangalore is fighting for. For me having a "cool image" + "foreign education" + "cool dressing" doesn't just cut, ofcourse lets not even talk about BJP


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[info]usha123
2009-04-16 06:10 am UTC (link)
I did consider, but I am not sure he is a winnable candidate..sometime back when I checked the 'will you vote for me' poll on his website, there were only 400 and odd votes polled. he will probably just cut into the votes of the others...

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[info]amoghavarsha
2009-04-17 06:53 am UTC (link)
That's ok my vote will count atleast

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[info]subhi
2009-04-16 06:11 am UTC (link)
What about BJP?

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[info]amoghavarsha
2009-04-17 06:52 am UTC (link)
Ofcourse you know their pub hatao, jean hatao, english hatao andolan.

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[info]inspirethoughts
2009-04-16 02:34 pm UTC (link)
That is sad that so many trees are being cut. :(

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[info]deponti
2009-04-17 12:02 am UTC (link)
I am not so sure about Capt Gopinath myself. He converted the human chain protest into an opportunity to hog the cameras and talk about himself and the election, rather than focus on the issue of illegal wall-breaking and tree-felling....

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(Anonymous)
2009-04-17 06:39 am UTC (link)
I would imagine that any candidate with just more than a week left for the polls would do just that. I was at a debate conducted by Infosys on thursday where they had invited Anant Kumar, Capt, Krishna Byre Gowda and Prof Radhakrishna. Capt was the only person who raised Lalbagh as an issue. But that wasn't the sad part. When he did, not one person in audience of 1500 Infosians( if that's how they spell it) reacted while Anantkumar's promise to widen roads was met with enthusiastic appalause. The problem, I'm sorry is not with the leaders alone.

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[info]deponti
2009-04-17 08:30 am UTC (link)
I think you have a valid point....and your last sentence is SO true. People really do think,many of them, that widening roads and cutting trees is the answer to Bangalore's traffic problems. And since once even I did think like that, before I actually saw what it was leading to, I can't blame them..

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