Comments | knutties: Amma's election strategy

knutties

Amma's election strategy

Feb 11, 2006 20:35

It is election time again and Amma has been doling out gifts, development schemes, employee bonuses, salary hikes and what not. But are they enough to win? Time will only tell. History is not favourable though. Tamil Nadu, in the past decade and a half, has not had its incumbent Chief Minister retaining his/her position. It has been DMK, AIADMK, ( Read more... )

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anonymous February 11 2006, 17:13:22 UTC

Yes. ;). Anyway, so howz life with the increasing crowd in BLR? ;)

Senthil.

knutties February 11 2006, 17:19:11 UTC

Two people don't make a crowd. Bangalore sucks with or without us ;)

knutties February 11 2006, 17:19:36 UTC

And life is good.

nearfar February 11 2006, 17:47:13 UTC

There are lots lots of such problems.

knutties February 11 2006, 17:51:18 UTC

Agreed. But this one should'nt cost her a penny. Getting votes without spending much is an art that our politicians have not mastered.

nearfar February 11 2006, 17:58:00 UTC

It may not cost her a penny, but it may cost her more "political wealth". Otherwise, I don't see any reason for her not to take the action. After all, she's also interested in "virtue" a bit.

ps: deleted/re-commented due to typo. sux0r LJ comments system (no edit).

knutties February 11 2006, 18:06:40 UTC

but it may cost her more "political wealth"
Did not get you? What are you refering to as political wealth?

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sunson February 12 2006, 11:34:56 UTC

You are just talking about Madras _and_ a negligent number of voters who happen to be in the middle income group _and_ those who take the time to go cast their vote. The core of her voting population is outside Madras. Places where seeing an Auto is like sighting an UFO.

knutties February 12 2006, 11:47:31 UTC

You are just talking about Madras

Though my experiences in Madras was a major factor behind the post, the situation at Hosur, a smallish town, is no different. And I do not think the situation at mid-sized metros like Coimbatore, Madurai is very different.

_and_ a negligent number of voters who happen to be in the middle income group _and_ those who take the time to go cast their vote.

If government employees and their unions can tilt the scales in her favour, so can a rationalized auto fare and a massive publicity campaign on the same. Such an announcement will surely make a lot of people, hitherto lazy, get off their butts and vote. It is something that will have an impact on every town/city that has a decent number of autos plying around.