The Banana Republic of India

As the son-in-law of this nation's unofficial leader has aptly put it - "Mango People in the Banana Republic", he has officially come out and said what most people would be flogged for saying - India is a Banana Republic!

As the skeletons are tumbling out of the closet and more is officially and publicly being said of the corruption of the leading politicians in this country, you would expect anger and outrage amongst the people. But no, we are Mango people! The voting population of this country has had very short memories and is easily won by fake emotion and drama. All our politicians are very well versed in public display of movie style emotional drama.

The moral fibre of this nation has eroded to an all time low. The voting population does not give a damn about corruption of individual politicians. They suffer daily from the amount of bribes that they have to pay to get any routine work done by the bureaucracy. As long as the politician is able to give some freebies, the voting population will not care about the individual's corruption. After all the voting public is being bribed to vote for who gives the most! The politicians have figured out this winning formula and have been perfecting and improving it. Hence, we see politicians fighting over each other to give the most freebies to the public.

Only when the people of this nation start thinking about their future generations will they outgrow this mentality for short-term gain.

Can anyone encourage their children to vote for corrupt politicians? If you can, you should also tell them that should cheat, rob, steal, kill, loot, plunder, pillage their neighbours and friends. That is exactly what you are doing by voting for and supporting corrupt politicians.

We need to have a change from the existing political parties in both state and the centre.

The Congress party has all but lost it's ability to regain power in Andhra Pradesh. The choice is between Y.S. Jagan and others. We have to choose between evils.

The main reason Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is fighting for power is to get leverage and  blackmail the central government to drop all the cases against him, when he gets enough MP seats in Andhra Pradesh. He may very well succeed!

Think about the future of this state when Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy and his cronies take over the state. Magnify whatever bad has happened during Y.S.R's regime in this state by 10 times and you will get the picture!

In one fell swoop he will decimate this states assets and natural resources!

Let us make this country a true Republic of India and not a Banana Republic.

A word of thanks to the brave men and women of the Central Bureau of Investigation handling the corruption cases in Andhra Pradesh

I would like to express my gratitude, as many countless others would, to the brave men and women of the Central Bureau of Investigation investigating the corruption cases in Andhra Pradesh with unflinching courage. You will always be remembered as true heroes of this nation and make it proud. Hats off to you!

We should always remember that there those who choose the tough life of sacrifice and honesty and don't fall for the easy traps of corruption. They could choose the easy life for their family by taking bribes, but blemish their name and their family's name forever. Those who choose the honest path are the ones the people of India need to recognize and salute! Not fraud and corrupt politicians who do drama and evoke foolish sympathy.

K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, the Chief Architect of the Quid-Pro-Quo scams

The main beneficiary of the Quid-Pro-Quo scams during the tenure of the late Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy is Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy. However, the brain behind the methodology and the strategy was Dr. K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao, the close confidante of Y.S.R. He is alleged to have drafted an elaborate plan to enable YSR and his family amass massive wealth if he were to become a Chief Minister in 2004. The grandness and scope of the plan was such that it kept only a single term in mind for execution of the plan to amass wealth that would enable YSR and his family/friends to live in a grand manner for countless generations. The reward he got for this grand plan was a cut/hafta/commission in every deal to the tune of 25%. He even advised YSR to share the spoils with the powers to be in the Congress office in New Delhi so that they don't cause any problems with their plans. He arranged timely transport of suitcases and briefcases to New Delhi whenever there was a need for funds. It is alleged that these suitcases and briefcases came in handy during the 1-2-3 nuclear agreement vote as payoffs. With this intimate knowledge of how much money was sent to New Delhi and to whom it was handed off to, KVP has the power to bring down the Congress higher ups. Hence, he is being protected from prosecution in this scam which is his brainchild.

Blatant arrogance of corrupt Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy!!

Everyone in Andhra Pradesh is well aware that Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy is enjoying the fruits of corruption from his late father's regime. It doesn't take an expert in forensic auditing to figure out that his new found wealth from his so called business ventures are just round tripped money laundered contributions for the largesses that the late YSR showered upon "investors". Even Y.S. Jagan's own loyalists agree to this, in private. This corruption is being justified as righteous, since the assumption is that the spoils will be used for the benefit of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy's friends and loyalists.
A confused and fragile Congress government in the state has lost confidence of the common man, despite coming up with populist schemes to attract and retain potential voters for the next election. The separate statehood agitation has split the state into two parts for two separate fiefdoms. The dominant portion of telanagana region is now a TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) stronghold. Y.S. Jagan has understood this and is clearly staying from this turf since he has favored a united Andhra Pradesh. He is alleged to have come to a tacit understanding with K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the TRS supremo, to that extent. The rest of Andhra Pradesh is being developed as the political turf for the corrupt Y.S. Jagan and his cronies.
The confidence that Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has that if he is arrested, his mother Y.S. Vijayamma will lead the party and capitalize on the sympathy from any such arrest and bring down the government in power. This is simply a game of political calculations and exploiting the common man's blind sympathy.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is doing a tremendous job of investigating the blatant crimes committed during the Y.S.R regime. However, the sooner it starts seizing and freezing Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy's assets and his cash resources, the better it is for the state and the country. People like Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy are becoming role models for future generations. Let us not let such people become role models. They need to made examples of criminals that should not remain free and their wealth stripped from them. Without this wealth, he will soon lose most of his so called loyalists who are in it just for money.

CPM and CPI Communists of Andhra Pradesh are amongst the most Corrupt!

It is a well known fact that the liquor mafia all over India is run with the aid of politicians and the police. It does not come as a surprise that the ACB raids in Andhra Pradesh have revealed the whos who of Politics, the police, and the excise department being on the take. It also reveals something that already was known, that the CPM and CPI leadership in Andhra Pradesh are heavily corrupt. They may extort money from businesses and shops in the name of the party fund for such events as the recently concluded Communist Party Grandeur in Khammam, but in reality most of it is pocketed for their own causes.

Puvvada Nageswara Rao of the CPI Party was one of the people named by the ACB who took money from the liquor mafia. Puvvada Nageswara Rao is just one of the examples of corruption amongst the corrupt communists of Andhra Pradesh. If the communists did not know he was corrupt, they must be blind and deaf! This gentleman established a Medical College in 1992 by using his extortion techniques and trading away the CPI vote bank and in return getting the permission to setup this medical college. Ask any common man and they will tell you how much a Medical seat donation will cost you in this medical college!! His reputation for corruption is very well known!

The communists of Andhra Pradesh are easily compromised by "gifts". Even in the Emaar Boulder hills scam, their silence was bought by Emaar by gifting them a so called party office in a prime piece of land adjoining the Outer Ring Road and the Boulder hills golf course. Whatever noise that the CPM and CPI make against Emaar are token protests so that they are not caught with their pants down.

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