{"id":4795,"date":"2008-05-09T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:35:01","slug":"saris-for-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/saris-for-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saris For Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Dog, here comes another <a href=\"\/an-overdose-of-puns\/\" title=\"An Overdose of Puns\">punny<\/a> headline:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/web\/guest\/news\/national\/article?_EXT_5_articleId=1112417&amp;_EXT_5_groupId=14\" title=\"Sari state of K&#8217;taka polls\">Sari state of K&#8217;taka polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what causes the sari state? Saris do, that&#8217;s what. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hemashree (24), the youngest contestant in the fray, is banking on her appeal as the host of a TV show that gives away saris to women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually don&#8217;t find this deplorable at all. It is a given that voters will be bribed in elections, in different ways. How much I object to politicians depends partly on how much taxpayers&#8217; money (<i>my<\/i> money) they offer as bribe. (Free TVs, saris, make-work employment schemes etc.) If this woman is cashing in on popularity that she has earned by giving away saris bought with <i>private<\/i> money, what&#8217;s wrong with that? It is at least, odd as it sounds, an honest form of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/atmaav.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Abhishek at Atmaav\">Abhishek<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Dog, here comes another <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/an-overdose-of-puns\/\" title=\"An Overdose of Puns\">punny<\/a> headline:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mid-day.com\/web\/guest\/news\/national\/article?_EXT_5_articleId=1112417&amp;_EXT_5_groupId=14\" title=\"Sari state of K&#8217;taka polls\">Sari state of K&#8217;taka polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what causes the sari state? Saris do, that&#8217;s what. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hemashree (24), the youngest contestant in the fray, is banking on her appeal as the host of a TV show that gives away saris to women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually don&#8217;t find this deplorable at all. It is a given that voters will be bribed in elections, in different ways. How much I object to politicians depends partly on how much taxpayers&#8217; money (<i>my<\/i> money) they offer as bribe. (Free TVs, saris, make-work employment schemes etc.) If this woman is cashing in on popularity that she has earned by giving away saris bought with <i>private<\/i> money, what&#8217;s wrong with that? It is at least, odd as it sounds, an honest form of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/atmaav.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Abhishek at Atmaav\">Abhishek<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saris For Votes - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/saris-for-votes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saris For Votes - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oh Dog, here comes another punny headline: Sari state of K&#8217;taka polls And what causes the sari state? 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