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I had wondered why provincial and parochial politicians are more colorful (or ridiculous, depending on your eye that I look at it), until I discovered the theory of relative importance of the navel. The average umbilicus measuring a square centimeter. Law's political ego inflation of Pareto shows that every politician tends to overestimate the size of your ego by a factor of 10 to the ninth power. That is, every politician is believed that the navel is one thousand million square feet, more or less 10,000 square meters. Thus, for a politician Aranese your navel equivalent to 0.001% of the total area of \u200b\u200bthe valley of Aran. Does it seem a tiny fraction? Not for a politician who is able to convince himself that the economy will grow this year because the restaurant yesterday called for a solar water bottle instead of tap water, so that aggregate demand pulled up! In exchange for a Russian politician, her navel represents only the surface 0'00000005% Russian. Too small, even for a politician. Why politicians tend to move more colorful local and provincial level, there still seems to have their navels something.
While in Spain, we also had our share of colorful politicians, think any has even reached the height of the heels of the Indian Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Lalu comes from a family of poor farmers in Bihar. That, which for 99% of people would be a passport to a miserable life in the hands of a skillful and charismatic politician is a ticket to political success. Lalu followed a pattern today is very normal for the politicians, get involved in politics while in college. They used to say "you ok, ok and not to letters, now the trend is" worth, worth and not a policy. " Lalu was Secretary General of the union students from Patna University in 1970. There he attracted the attention of the Janata Party leaders, he was introduced to the general elections of 1977. Was elected by the district of Bihar and 29 years old became one of the youngest MP of the Indian Parliament.
In the decade of the eighties was MP in the Legislative Assembly of Bihar. Cuckoos politicians know that the national policy is so cool, but where you can leverage and move is not in local politics. Jordi Pujol was the head of the Government for 23 years. How many years would have been top dog if national had been Prime Minister? With luck fourteen, which was that it was Felipe Gonzalez, a record which I think difficult than any other prime minister. Lalu was building his power base with patience and when the opposition coalition was finally made with the government of Bihar, he was its leader.
Lalu was Chief Minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997. Funny, demagogue, a populist and a haircut designed by his worst enemy, was a controversial Chief Minister. His followers adored him and his enemies accused him of overusing the letter of the breed.
In 1996 came to light the "scandal fodder." It was found that in Bihar for several years had been spent to $ 290 million national program of support to agriculture in feed, medicines and artificial insemination equipment for some herds that did not exist. The anger was supine, there is nothing, it takes years to discover that money gastándote cows do not exist, almost like discovering that the children who have been paying the school for fifteen years really were the children of the milkman. Lalu did you do in these cases: reporting that it was a conspiracy of the opposition, could not stand it well I was doing in Bihar. The truth is that Lalu did not initiate the plot, which was already assembled when he assumed power in Bihar. He just perfected it and took his hand.
The scandal was huge even by Indian standards. Lalu prepraró his defense in a very skillful. Caused a split in his party, the Janata Dal and formed his own group, the Rashtriya Janata Dhal, whose emblem is an oil lamp that used by farmers in rural areas. You may want to indicate that he intended to seek at any time of day the cows that were missing in Bihar. The political basis the party were yadav and Muslim communities, the two most disadvantaged and also the two most politically active of the state. Resigned and had it his wife, Rabri Devi, his successor as Chief Minister in Bihar.
Lalu had the immense good fortune that in the same time resigned to his wife awakened her interest in politics, because the lady until then had shown no political ambitions or nor have many lights. Rabri had gone from the house of her father to her husband when she married (or married) at age 14 with Lalu, who was then 26. Rabri said that his family was wealthy and that his father chose to marry a poor man's way, which only looked at the character of Lalu. Surely it was for that and the fact that a poor man would be content with a small dowry would not count for anything in the calculations of the father. Rabri had only primary school and defined themselves as illiterate in an interview. I think it would be more appropriate to regard it as functionally illiterate. Lest they see her as a puppet Lalu, Rabri said: "It is true that it is conditional. Also my brain works. If necessary, we see [here refers to consular Lalu not to see her brain]
Lalu did what smart politicians: If this site does not want me, I'm going elsewhere. After leaving Bihar in the capable hands of his wife, was presented to the national parliamentary elections and won Bihar. Lalu announcing that he went to Delhi to work for unity of secular forces against the Bharatiya Janata Party confessional. Not that Lalu had suddenly discovered the virtues of secularism, but he understood that if one leads a small party and wants to thrive in national politics, is to ally here and there and bark a lot. The late nineties were a time of great instability Politics in India. Between May 1996 and March 1998 four successive Prime Ministers. On all four occasions Lalu is candidateó to the post with no results. As it did have more luck was that every time he played an important role in choosing the winner.
In 2004 the Congress Party came to power and Lalu got the prize so coveted by politicians: a ministerial portfolio, specifically the Railways. It may not sound like much, but in India as Minister of Railways has a lot. Indian Railways are a small state within a state. I correct myself: they are a great state within a state. They are the largest employer in the country, which employ 1.6 million people, almost more interested in generating employment and as a profitable company. Railways have their own factory that built more roads elements other engineering materials they need. The Minister also controls a number of public companies who work for the railroads.
Lalu was showcased in front of the Railways, to the point that it became a practical case study at Harvard. In four years that a company was losing money and it was hoped that would make bankruptcy in 2014, pass to make a profit of 5,200 million dollars. And all this was achieved without changing the rates and using the same staff with which the company had lost money before.
say the evil that Lalu just let those who knew, acted and did not interfere. I think very worthwhile. I do not expect politicians to be a genius and know everything. I only have to surround yourself with good advisers and advised to leave. They keep saying the evil that took Lalu slice in the operation. As Minister, I knew where they were going to build new roads and what lands were to revalue. This and me seems a bit, well, much worse.
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