Mainstream parties may not have given him a ticket despite his healthy bank balance, but the brain behind India’s first lowcost airline, Captain Gorur Ramaswamy Gopinath, steps into an “Air Bus” in Shantinagar to campaign for the Bangalore South constituency on Monday, before the conductor blows the whistle for takeoff.
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hahaha!! awesome title.
Is this Capt.Gopinath, son of Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar ?
Captain might have something more on his mind than a simple bus journey.
From http://elections.praja.in/discuss/forums/2009/04/capt-gopinath-interview#comment-12981
“when I raised the specific query as to why he was not doing anything about providing efficient bus services for the common man, after giving him wings, he responded saying that he definitely had it in his mind, and that he will pursue it, whether elected or not”
This captain is a joke. He has no idea about governance least of all about people. He talks through his hat and has not touched down. Like for example he says if he is elected MP he will change people from outside Bangalore coming into Bangalore!! Pray why? “People should stay where they are”!! strange words from someone who launched airline!!
What is not clear is , why he chose to contest from Bangalore South? Adding to that he is independent.
I agree with Subbulakshmi, this captain is canvasing in Bangalore Central constituency limit for his Bangalore South constituency. Shantinagar assembly segment is in Bangalore Central not south.
I don’t think this captain will get 10,000 votes, he lost a lot as an airliner and now wants to be a politician to recover his losses.. what a joke..
One thing for sure. He will get a good buyer for the constituency. :)
Awesome Title!
(this will make an interesting post)
A Tale of Two Bows, starring Barack Obama
narasimha,
No, he is closely related to him.
His campaigning has been totally uninspiring, his team is engaging only in wordplay like all other “alternative” candidates. Get innovative people!
The most damage he can do is shift a bit of vote-share of the either mainstream party candidates(mostly Ananthkumar may bear the brunt but, he has real ground support unlike Krishna Byregowda/Gopinath).
I admire this man because of the life he has led:
His birth and education make him a BrahmaNa in both conventional and pragmatic sense.
Then as an armyman, he has lived a life of Kshatriya.
After that making his kai kesaru in agriculture, he qualifies as a Shudra and even Rolex has recognised that he has excelled in that aspect(that also proved to me that The Hindu is a bullshit newspaper which doesn’t even care about what it is reporting.).
Even though Air Deccan sucked(that’s mostly because the system sucks), he’s proved that he is good in business that makes him a Vaishya too!
He’s a person worth electing, but don’t think he has a chance. :-)
Superb! Why can’t our mainsteam media see these things?
With Vijay Mallya as his financer, Captain sure has got nothing to lose.
But he is eating Ananthanna’s votes.
NAWN..your arguement is beautiful. Latest is the Samajawadi Party has declared its support to Capt Gopi.
Is this the case of with-friends-like-this…
NAWN
A nice theory! Along the same lines if the Captain has you know got it snitched he is also from the minority community? :)
Subbu
You are being too harsh on the Captain! He means well I think when he wants to stop local migration into Bangalore.
Cong has virtually conceded Blore South by naming Krishna Byregowda.
So enjoy one more inertia term of Ananthu.
Narasimha/NAWN – Isn’t Capt Gopi son of Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar?
Still I think Cap.Gopinath is the brilliant business man. In this election, he is thinking like Devegowda. In case if he wins this election, he can definitely get capital for his new venture either at the time of horse trading or at the time of vote of trust. In case if he looses… :-) he got the free publicity through national news channels so he can go for IPO just after election… He is an independent so he doesn’t have to work for any party after the election if he looses. Just think in case if he has to get the same level of publicity for his new cargo venture, he has to pay in crores to these TV channels. How is this innovative idea? You should be proud of this Kannidiga and you dont have to vote for him but definitely consider buying the share at IPO :-)
DB
wish you hear him. All hsi arguments are absolutely floating in air. NO such serious thoughts mentioned by you.
Like some others suggested, I think the captain is in the fray more to prove a point, not because he thinks he has a great chance of winning.
Subbu,
After all he is a pilot. So his thoughts are floating in the air:)
Subbulaxmi,
Why are you expecting serious thoughts from politician? Its just that captain seems to be relatively better than other three candidates in the fray.