A digitally unaltered image of Y. Sampangi, the BJP’s honourable member of the legislative assembly from Kolar Gold Fields, who was caught red-handed by the Lok Ayukta police at the legislators’ home in Bangalore on Thursday, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh (Rs 50,000 in cash, Rs 4.5 by cheque) to have a police case against a businessman, Hussain Mueen Farook, closed.
“In the history of the Karnataka Lok Ayukta, this is the first time that an MLA has been arrested while accepting bribe,” the Lok Ayukta, Justice Santosh N. Hegde, said. The State BJP president D.V. Sadananda Gowda promptly announced the suspension of the MLA from the party, while a bunch of BJP MLAs, led by Renukacharya of “Nurse” Jayalakshmi fame, created a scene after being denied a chance to meet the fallen angel.
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What excuse will BJP supporters come up with to justify the incident and wash their hands off?
1) “Haven’t Congress MLAs taken a bribe before?”
2) “Look, how quickly the party suspended him!”
3) “It was a set-up. Look at the name of the bribe-giver.”
4) “Everybody takes bribes. He was unlucky to get caught.”
5) “The Lok Ayukta is a Congress agent.”
6) Fill in the blanks _______________
Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
churumuri 
A pathetic illiterate government, public SERVANT, instead of atleast doing some of his duties is accepting bribes to register police case against businessman.
Awesome, mera bharat mahan. I rest my case.
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7) Women who drink are bad. Ban pubs and music concerts. That is the real issue, not some small bribe taken by our counciller!
8) How can you prove that the counciller took the bribe as an BJP man? Innocent until proven guilty (though we dont apply this when we accuse others).
9) Muslims are the villians! All Hindus unite! (and forget this minor matter).
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look at his secular credentials, helping anyone irrespective of caste, creed , leanings …
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Media suffers from huge anti-BJPism. Thus score self goal.
Forget MLA (hang him if found guilty), what about Rajiv Gandhi who hushed up money stolen in Bofors. And now Sonia using Govt to hide that.
HOW MANY TIMES CHURUMURI MADE HEADLINE OUT OF BOFORS, WORSE HOW IT WAS SYSTEMETICALLY SUPPRESSED BY DIFFERENT CENTRAL MINISTERS, AGENCIES TO PLEASE MADAM SONIA?
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Come on! How can you not list the “This is a conspiracy to….” line?
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Why should scum like these be defended ? That he was suspended from the party is commendable. He should be disqualified from contesting any elections to public office in future.
I wonder what really happens after the Lok Ayukta traps the
Government officials with their hand in the jar.
Kudos to Santosh Hegde !
These MLAs are eyeing a club to be built for the exclusive use of the Legislators at the old Turf Club grounds (idea mooted by Shri Ramesh Kumar who lost the last elections to Vidhana Sabha). Hmm would the “exclusive club” mean away from prying eyes ? Hamam mein sab nange hain..
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My hearty congratulations to Lok Ayukta Santhosh Hegde. No doubt the government does not want to give more power to Lok Ayukta.
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If the face is the index of mind, Mr.Sampangi’s photo speaks volumes of his character.
The newsworthy part is not that a politician like Sampangi took bribe. It is that he was caught in the act, with his pants down. Mr.Mallikarjuna Kharge who says that the politicians have to bow the head in shame, has forgotten that as a home minister, he met Telgi at Parappana Agrahara Jail. What honourable intent did he have? Churmuri itself has exposed Mr.R.V.Deshabande’s assets increasing from Rs.11 crores to Rs.145 crores. Recently, Lokayukta has exposed the misdeeds of former CM N.Dharm “drum” Singh, involvign impropriety of Rs.23 crores. Was this impropriety commitetd with charitabel motive? Was the money and asset made without stretching the palm like a begger before businessmen and industrialists?
The fact that corrupt politicians are manning the public life across the political spectrum. BJP with its agenda of coming to power some how, has taken in al kinds of scumbags, the likes of Sampangi. We know that even the acts of best intentions by the Lokayukta are of no use, as long as the Government has the veto power to protect the corrupt.
It is for the public to teach a lesson by drubbing these corrupt politicians at hustings. Shortly there will be an opportunity to do so in May 2009. All he educated persons, and socially conscious person must at least go to the polling booth and vote, not sit at home and watch cricket, or fashion shows. Non-voting public have done more harm to Indian democracy than all the corrupt poliicians put together.
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I’ll go for 6… “we’ll try to ensure that rest of our MLAs taking bribe do not get caught” . . . .
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Salute to Mr. Farooq for going to the lok ayukta.
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Churumuri, you pre-empted the defence of stubborn BJP supporters, with your list of excuses that they would come up with
The Congressisation of BJP began long back.
Now BJP is worse than Congress in all spheres.
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The question asked is close ended and will result in only kind of response.
Happy bashing..
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Every thing is legal until your are caught..
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Gururaj – “If the face is the index of mind, Mr.Sampangi’s photo speaks volumes of his character.” What exactly do you mean?
From the post itself –
“What excuse will BJP supporters come up with to justify the incident and wash their hands off?”
– I find this “direct targeting”, interesting. Which BJP supporter would “justify the incident and wash their hands off?” How would a BJP supporter “justify” this act? None on you’re list of excuses reveal “justification” of this act, btw.
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You missed out the standard and most common ‘excuse’: “This is politically motivated”
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Not to divert the attention …..
– My friend who works for Real-estate company has given 1-cr bag to then CM SMK. Not based on news-paper, but first-hand info
– I know a transport company which is created-and-built by current opposition leader RVD and for this, he takes regular/monthly “fees” – I know the transport company manager quite well.
Like now-awakened Siddu told, “All politician takes, but only Sampangi got caught”, highlight of this story is only that “catching” part reather than someone taking bribe…..
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I just wish this BJP govt come to an end before it embarasses the hell of out of itself. It is proving that these people cannot handle power. I wish for the BJP of late 90s. The party was really “different”..both in action and words.
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what handling power? everyone is corrupt. we need to see who actually do good, nobody does, and not who can handle what.
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These people have no shame. I hope many other bigwigs also get caught also, irrespective of the political party they belong to.
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Sandesh – We wanted the BJP to grow. It grew.
There was no way it could have maintained its “purity” after such growth.
It’s funny to watch MSM reacting to goings on within the BJP.
When it suites them (MSM) they drag it (BJP) over coals for its supposed ideological stance (Pub controversy)…again..when BJP shows all signs of being a “mainstream” political party, such as the case in this instance, it is again, specially, crucified :)
Net net, MSM will use any stick to beat BJP with not because of BJP, but because of the company it keeps, ie the Sangh Parivar. No doubt the Parivar is polluted with Liberal scum too..but its essential conservative core is still alive and fighting fit. And, the BJP itself is still a viable vehicle of Hindu revivalism.
So, don’t give up…that’s what Liberals want.
An aside – I was watching Madame’ Barkha Dutt’s debating program held in Jaipur, on TV. MJ Akbar, Tarun Vijay (Panchajanya fame), Swapan Dasgupta, Ashish Nandy (Psych fame) et al, were there. On the Conservative side, it was Swapan who was most clear in his thought process…and Tarun Vijay who was the most inarticulate fellow who not only confused himself, but made his stance look very silly. This Sangh Liberal also tried his hand at Urdu shairi!
So, Sandesh, a lot of Hindu revival is taking place outside of the Sangh too.
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What about giving BRIBE?
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Y. Sampangi was earlier with the Congress. He is a defector.
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Siddaramaiah lias Side Rama said that it was a common thing and every MLA takes bribe. He also asked media not to make it big as all 224 MLA s take bribe.
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innocent looks…
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kappagiddu yenne mukha iddoru enu kolepaatakaraa? bellage rajiv sonia raul thara iddre maatra olle jana.. bloody racist hypocrites.
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The KGF-Robertsonpet has a curse laid on it. Does anybody remember the case of a legislator called Armugam from that area? The case took nearly two decades to progress through the courts and the legislator was eventually exonerated.
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Looks like he has experience with machhu and longu. He can try his luck in Sandalwood. Who knows one day he can become SampaniaNNa.
More power to Lokayuktha.
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Bhamy: I agree with you on this.
Justic Hegde is worthy son of a worthy father.
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There used to be a minor villian of kannada movies of the 70s and early 80s named Sampangi who looked a lot like this guy.
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Bamboo Basappa – Neevu heliDdu sari.
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The Hon’ble Shri. Sampangi’s act is only a symptom. The root of the malaise lies in the obscene amounts spent on elections. Yes, Mr. Yediyurappa must publicly congratulate/thank Justice Santhosh Hegde, but more importantly, Mr. Yediyurappa must re-start the debate for public funding of elections.
Meanwhile, I wonder if Mr. Sampangi has a buffalo gene. (Yemme). Is that possible?
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None of the BJP supporters will support a corrupt BJP MLA, because BJP supporters are sensible guys very much unlike Congress/JDS supporters
who keep supporting the by-birth corrupt leaders like Gandhi family, SMKrishna, DKShi, RVDeshpande, HDDevegowda, kummi… so on & on the list goes on…. This list is v long when compared to ONE Sampangi..
So all pseudo-sick-ular guys including churumuri… wake up and try to see everybody in the same light
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ಕೊಟ್ಟವ ಕೋಡ೦ಗಿ. ಇಸ್ಕೊ೦ಡವ ಸ೦ಪ೦ಗಿ!!
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Meanwhile, I wonder if Mr. Sampangi has a buffalo gene. (Yemme). Is that possible?
– Why do you ask?
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ನಾರಾಯಣ ಅವರೇ
ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪಾದ ಎಲ್ಲಿ ದೆವ್ರು
(ನಗು ನಿಲ್ತಾನೆ ಇಲ್ಲ ಮಾರಾಯರೆ)
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“You are a thief only if you are caught”.Decades of experience made congressmen masters in the art of accepting bribe.Siddu has rightly said that all MLAs take bribe.Kharge s son Priyanka drives Nissan & Kummi s son drives Hummer,where does the money come from.
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ಇವನು ಸಂಪಂಗಿ ಅಲ್ಲ ಕಮ್ಮಂಗಿ ರೀ… ನೋಡೋಕೆ ನಿಜವಾದ ಖಳನಾಯಕನ ಹಾಗೆ ಇದ್ದಾನೆ!! ಇಂತಹ ಜನರನ್ನೂ ನಾವು ವಿಧಾನ ಸಭೆಗೆ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ ಕಳಿಸುತ್ತೆವಲ್ಲಾ, ಅದು ನಮ್ಮ ದೌರ್ಭಾಗ್ಯ!!
ಪಾಪ… ಯಾಕೆ ಆ ಹಳೇ ಖಳನಟ ಸಂಪಂಗಿನ ಇವನಿಗೆ ಹೊಲಿಸುತ್ತೀರಾ? ಆತ ಬಹಳ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಮನುಷ್ಯ…. ನಾನು ಅವರನ್ನು ಹತ್ತಿರದಿಂದ ಬಲ್ಲೆ….
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Alla swamy adaralli enu maha ide bidi. Sarakadalli ellarooo lancha thogolore. Arade, kodangi sikki haki konda. Takshana ellaroo satya harischandra na thara mathadthare. Enu hedarabekagilla sampangi avare, nimagae eu agalla. Nimage ellaro support madi lanchada case ninda horage bidiskondu barthare. Adakke swalpa kharchu aguethe adanna careful agi sariyadavarige kodi, mathe kottu sikkihakolla bedi.
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Coffee Addict–
Siddha once also said in public that were Gandhi alive today, he too would accept bribes.
I like what the politician Lingappa of Kanakapura said two days ago. Every legislator, past or present, including himself is corrupt.
So Justice Venkatachala joined the BJP. Hegde will follow suit.
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All people on this forum universally accept that all MLAs in India accept bribes. Then what is the fuss about this case, except that he was caught?
Who will cleanse the system? Is this the ನಾಂದಿ?
Since all are corrupt, we celebrate those whose were not caught and denigrate those who were caught?
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Nastika–
You sound like a believer. “Yadaa yadaa hi dharmasya . . ..” Neither hope nor prayer is on our side. The military is waiting in the wings.
Read the Kannadaprabha just now. Happy Hegde says he is ready to rule, doing what the politicians won’t.
ಲ೦ಚ ತಗೊ೦ಡ ಆಪಾದನೆಯನ್ನು ಲ೦ಚ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳೋಕೆ ಸಾಧ್ಯ ಇರೋ ನಮ್ಮ ನಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬುದ್ಧಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ ಮತದಾರರು ವಿದ್ಯಾವ೦ತರಾಗೋ ತನಕ ಏನೂ ಆಗಲ್ಲ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ವಿದ್ಯೆ ಅ೦ದರೆ ಜಾತಿರಾಜಕಾರಣದಿ೦ದ ಹೊರಬರೋದು.
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Interesting When Prime Minster Narasimha Rao’s Government got support by paying money to five JMM Members of Parliament it was not bribe and the Supreme Court does not want to intervene in the Case. When Thehelka induces some one to Take money by falsification of identity, it was not an offense. But when a Case of Bribery is yet to be proved the Lok Ayukta was before the media giving out the “details” of corruption he has detected. What sort of Corruption we are talking Sir ?
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Option 6
…taking Bribe is a very age old Indian culture and we are trying to preserve it….
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“Haven’t Congress MLAs taken a bribe before?”
What a stupid question to ask?
My dear, whatever be their party 90% of politicians take bribes.
For your info, even the CPM and CPI are taking bribes from TDP for entering into the maha-alliance with them in AP.
It appears each Assembly candidate is spending Rs 5 Cr to 10 Cr in AP. I don’t know much about Karnataka candidates.
Only fools can think such candidates are not going to take bribes after winning elections. After all it is a kind of investment for them, to earn 10 times in their tenure. So if we have 250 seats in the assembly, take for granted that up to Rs 25,000 Cr public money will be gone as bribes in the next 5 years.
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ನೋಡಕ್ಕೆ ಸ೦ಪ೦ಗಿ ಹಾಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ, ಹೀಗಿದ್ದಾನೆ ಅನ್ನುವದು ಸೌಜನ್ಯದ ಸೂಚಕ ಅಲ್ಲ.
As many of you have asked, “How about those who have avoided getting caught?”
In a poor country of one billion people, executive, judicial, and legilslative machinery breaking down is inevitable. The minds that cooked up our constitution and served it to an illiterate populace in an incomprehensible idiom were not capable of imagining what India would look like fifty-eight years after the ratification of their handiwork. Sixty per cent of our brothers and sisters are considered literate just on the basis of their being able to sign their names.
Even with the most stringent population control measures the population of India is expected to double in the next fifty years. We have not the resources to feed even a third of those mouths unless we make our bodies of water safe for marine life and agricultural purposes.
1. Time to start creating a trans-state river grid.
2. Time to discourage slum dwellers from staying where they are or going on to create more slums.
3. Require community service at all stages of education instead of promoting foolish schemes like scouting and the NCC.
4. This should have been No. 1. Hindus should admit that we are not special and God has no particular obligation to save us if we save our dharma. Same for religionists of all stripes and spots. Stop fat cat dalit leaders from misleading their own brothers and sisters into thinking that accepting a new “dhamma” is going to change everything, especially dependence on government handouts. The Sampangi case demonstrates that there is little that dalit leaders have in common with those they claim to serve. What have the Siddalingayyas and Mahadevas wrought? How did their mentor Lankesh manage to mint crores in less than two decades? What has their brahmin apologist A. Murthy sacrificed to merit his happy life among the privileged as well as the downtrodden? What of people like Mallappa Kharge? It is not enough for the wretched of us to chant the name of Ambedkar. Naming streets for him or building monuments he would have detested is no way to raise the consciousness of everyday dalits. Abolition of the caste system is not going to happen because there is too much money in keeping low caste people where they are. See how upper caste people are scrambling to be classified as a protected caste. Why do Lingaayats or Vokkaligas need some damn OBC classification? Together they own or control two thirds of the land in the state.
5. Find ways to defang globalisation. Twenty-five years ago our politicians could not legally secret money away in foreign banks. Now they can and do.
6. Let me make it simple. What will we do when there is no food to eat and no water to drink in about twenty-five years? We have got to get our people ready to read, think, and write. A knowledge of the self in the context of the world in which we live is our need of the hour.
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headline today : Assets of ministers, kin exempt from RTI: PMO.
Churumuri how about balancing your bjp mla bribe story with this news
I say this as your supporter and fan and want you to improve your credibility.
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Dear Palahalli,
See NS Rao’s description dated 31.1.2009, of Sampangi. That is more or less what “face of the index” means in my note.
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It was a settlement not a bribe, iam a resident of K.G.F and a staunch follower of Congress but the fact is the entire K.G.F citizens know everything about the case between Farroq and Nayaz, and even people including me knew that M.L.A a worked out a compromise formula between them and there were several round of discussion between them, I was also pained to hear it from the nayaz himself that the money was to be given to him not sampangi, the media showed only the one side of the story but not the other one, the worst part is when nayaaz wanted to meet the Lokhyuktha and tell his story he was not entairtained and even threatend, I want the public to check with people of K.G.F about this before commenting
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