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April 9, 2012

Money bags for Rajya Sabha seats






Money bags for Rajya Sabha seats
essar vs essar
Parimal Nathwani (businessman), RK Anand, (advocate), Nishikant Dube (facilitator of Essar Group), and KD Singh (businessman from Chandigarh) have all become Rajya Sabha Members from Jharkhand without having any political base in the state. So Anshuman Mishra cannot be faulted for thinking that he too could aspire to be a Rajya Sabha member as he was close to BJP President Nitin Gadkari. He had been helping Gadkari and the BJP for the last five years with all the possible means at his disposal. But his claim opened a pandora’s box within the BJP. Everybody was surprised when it was noticed that Jet Airways owner Naresh Goyal, Kumar-amangalam Birla and the Ruia brothers were advocating in his favour. Mishra is chairman and co-Founder of MPH Holdings and was most recently employed by Investec Bank in London, UK. He came into the limelight when he introduced Subrato Sahara to Bill Clinton during his visit to India as US President. Mishra has been instrumental in creating an aircraft finance business in India, a media company in Mumbai and a business advisory company. A Deepak Chopra acquaintance and disciple of Mahesh Yogi, Mishra’s gameplan was punctured by none other than Nishikant Dube, who is said to be close to Arun Jaitley. The fact is that Dubey, who has until now managed corporate lobbying for the Ruia brothers (the Essar Group), did not want another Brahmin face from Jharkhand. Also, Dubey wasn’t quite happy with Mishra’s new-found friendship with his corporate bosses, Shashi and Prashant Ruia. In the entire circus, the real winner was SS Ahluwalia, who is close to both Sushma Swaraj and Lal Krishna Advani. Had Gadkari been able to get Ahluwalia elected from anywhere else, Anshuman Mishra would have been in Parliament without a noise.g     


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