Saturday, December 31, 2005

Another Media Stereotype of Bihar and other states

Sagarika Ghose of IBN is having the guts to imply that BIMARU States' MPs are more corrupt than rest!

Read her nonsense here.

I have posted a comment on her site.

My Response to Sagarika Ghose (Please note that I had to limit my response as there were no more characters to be typed in)
Hi Sagarika

I find that you are unnecessarily linking the MPs' background to BIMARU States without any sound reason. You are saying that 5 out of 11 MPs caught in Sting Operations - Cobrapost + Star are from BIMARU States and hence, it is quite logical (in your opinion) to extrapolate that BIMARU States' MPs are more likely to do such mischief.

You have ignored other 6 MPs who are not from BIMARU State! Why such an omission? Why is it that you are looking at half of the MPs which meet your stereotype of BIMARU MP.

Let us assume that your inference is correct that BIMARU MPs are most corrupt. It implies that Non-Bimaru MPs are not so corrupt.

If we were to agree that Non-BIMARU MPs are not likely to be corrupt (less) then it would mean that these Non-Bimaru states will be free (relatively free) from corruption. Let us take a look at recent history:
Tamilnadu: Jayalalita has been accued in TANSI Case and her money-making ways are infamous.

Do you still think that it is BIMARU Thing

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