MONEY POWER

POLITICIANS GETTING RICHER THAN OTHERS IS NO SURPRISE. IN FACT OF THE TEN RICHIE RICHES ACROSS THE COUNTRY FIVE ARE POLITICIANS
THERE ASSETS RUN INTO HUNDREDS OF CRORES AND SOME HAVE THEIR WEALTH GROWING 20 TO 30 TIMES FROM LAST ELECTION
AMONG THE 314 CANDIDATES CONTESTING ELECTIONS IN 22 CONSTITUENCIES 64 ARE CROREPATIS-UP FOUR TIMES FROM 2004. AT THE TIME, THERE WERE ONLY 3 CANDIDATES IN THESE CONSTITUENCIES WITH ASSETS OF MORE THAN Rs 10 CRORE , NOW THERE ARE 18
IN SUCH A SITUATION I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND HOW POLITICAL DECISION MAKING CAN REMAIN UNALTERED BY THE EFFECT OF MONEY POWER?