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Ep. 149: A life in Indian Politics

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Money Power in Politics

Politicians are using money power, organizational ability and cast power as the levers. These are the three things that really are the determinants of who gets the seat. Criminality is not always the consideration when politicians talk about criminality. Many parties very unwisely offered that they will scrap the new pension scheme. But because you're afraid that you lose those 100,000 words or 200,000 words in a state,. he says.

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