He is the man in making. The man who can be described as the most powerful man in India today. What he says is heard seriously. His actions closely monitored and hidden meanings derived from his speech. Till yesterday he was remembered by the Congress party as the Gate Crasher and today he is referred to as the Saviour.

The person in above lines is none other then Amar Singh ji or Amitabah Bachhan's Chote brother.He is a man which most of us aspire to be; rich and powerful, but all of us despise him by calling him a middleman.

The day the muhurat of SP and Congress was announced, the share prices of ADA group rose in market while those of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance took a nose dive. The very next day he made his intentions clear in the Great Reliance war by asking the Govt to place windfall taxes on Oil companies and GSM operators. One was against Reliance Petroleum and the other was meant for Reliance Communication.

From political gatecrasher to India's Most Wanted, Amar Singh has come a long way. In the process, he has come to represent a new breed of Indian politicians who have redefined the conventional rules of the game: he has brought the presence of middlemen who had been in Indian politics to limelight. He has brought dignity and some amount of accountability to that class of politician whose work is to take money from buisness houses to get their work done.

He may not be able to gather any votes for Mulayam Singh , but he is totally indispensable to him. Amar Singh provides much needed glamor, money and importance to his akhara politics in UP. Every political party has one or more Amar Singhs , but not all of them flaunt their corporate relationship like he does.

We all hate his disposition and the way he flaunts himself, if only had he been a little candid, he would have been like other politicians we have. There are politicians who are also batting for specific business interests, only, they will not admit as much in public. In Parliament, questions are asked on behalf of specific industrial houses; in ministries, projects are cleared and decisions are taken to favor individual corporates; in the bureaucracy, secretaries are appointed because of their business affiliations.

He is doing something which is not unique in this world, lobbyists walk the corridors of power, peddling influence and networking the system. But whereas in the United States for example, the role of the lobbyist has been legitimized, in India we are still reluctant to admit their presence, preferring to see them as shadowy operators. What Amar Singh has done is that he removed the 'nudge-wink' secrecy that surrounds the corporate-politician connection in the process of decision-making.

He is doing what has been done before Independence. Gandhi's and Congress relationship with Birla was known to everybody.We should encourage more politicians to come out in the open. At least we will then know who works for whom.

Thanks Amar Ji!! You did what nobody has done till now. The dealings which were done inside North block will be more visible on TV now.

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poppy said:

The Communists may not believe in astrology, but in choosing the inauspicious Rahu Kalam for meeting President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday (July 9), they might have, even inadvertently, earned celestial wrath. According to information available, the Left parties had called on President Patil between 11.45 am and 12 noon on July 9, during the beginning of the Rahu Kalam, which had commenced that day at 11.49 am or 11.58 am, depending on which of the two almanacs one computed the time of the sunrise from either as 5.49 or 5.58 am. “Since this meeting and the conveying of the decision to withdraw support to the government happened during the beginning of the Rahu Kalam, it is quite likely that the Left parties, who undertook the job, will face setback while the government gains,” said wellknown astrologer Veda Gopalan here. According to her, even though Rahu Kalam would be more applicable to proactive measures, such as extending support, in the present case the Left parties could still come a cropper because they aimed to bring down the government “and this is proactive.” The Samajwadi leaders are likely to suffer as well since they too had undertaken their mission to the Rashtrapati Bhavan during Rahu Kalam to inform the President about their support to the UPA government. “My interpretation is that while the government will survive the confidence vote, the UPA alliance with the SP will not last long. From what I see in the planetary positions now and on the day of the confidence vote, I believe good will happen to the government, to the country,” said Ms Gopalan.

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