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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:32 am 
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An interesting choice of selections, while I personally really favour some of the choices in the given list, there are almost equally as much I really wouldn't have if this were my list. I would also include; V. M. Tarkunde, M. N. Roy, Kamal Haasan(I'd pick him over Rajnikant & Big B), Kodavatiganti Kutumbarao, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay & Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. However, from the choices provided in the website, my vote goes to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:58 pm 
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Good Topic.

Most of the candidates in the list are the ones that became super rich, or their close ones became super rich, because of their political stature. They need to be condemned, not voted as equal to Mahatama who really never gained a single paisa, for himself or for his family, from his political clout.

Of the worthy candidates that I can think of are:

Sant Vinoba Bhave (Really a saint, no personal gains)

Atal Behari Bajpaye (I think he did not allow his close ones to benefit financially during his tennure as PM; his sister still struggling with poverty, houising, etc ??)

Jaya Prakash Narayan (Prime-ministership was his had he wanted it, post Indira Gandhi Emergency; not sure if he or close ones benefited financially from his stature)

Mother Terressa (Declared a saint already)

Baba Amte

APJ Abdul Kalam

And I don't know enough about the following regarding personal gains:

Ram Manohar Lohia

Ela Bhatt

Vallabhai Patel


And, how could anyone consider Nehru or Indira Gandhi (as per my criteria of "No Personal Gains") who created political dynasty and are super super super rich, hidden accounts, while all, yes all, their Kashmiri Pandit brothers have been thrown out of their houses, living in poverty, and most are still living in Refugee Camps for over 20 Yrs now.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:30 pm 
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BTW, the following is the vote count as of June 20, 2012:

(But, in my opinion, anyone who amassed huge wealth because of his stature should be disqualified)

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http://www.historyindia.com/TGI/leaderboard
Rank Name Votes
1 Dr. B R Ambedkar 2444701
2 A P J Abdul Kalam 2300137
3 Vallabhai Patel 621532
4 Kanshi Ram 220825
5 A B Vajpayee 52157
6 Sachin Tendulkar 38481
7 J R D Tata 26998
8 Mother Teresa 25366
9 Rajinikanth 22288
10 Indira Gandhi 18825
11 Viswanathan Anand 15153
12 A R Rahman 14810
13 Rajagopalachari 13980
14 Jawaharlal Nehru 13250
15 Baba Amte 13102
16 Amitabh Bachchan 12502
17 Sam Manekshaw 12087
18 Lata Mangeshkar 11280
19 Jayaprakash Narayan 10804
20 Mohammed Rafi 10453
21 Dhyan Chand 10064
22 Ram Manohar Lohia 9602
23 Kapil Dev 9218
24 B K S Iyengar 8992
25 Dhirubhai Ambani 8627
26 Vinoba Bhave 7666
27 Homi J Bhabha 7326
28 Dr. E Sreedharan 7315
29 N R Narayanamurthy 6910
30 Vikram Sarabhai 6563
31 Milkha Singh 5890
32 Kishore Kumar 5752
33 M S Swaminathan 5562
34 Verghese Kurien 5268
35 Amartya Sen 4984
36 Satyajit Ray 4789
37 Sunil Gavaskar 4776
38 Dilip Kumar 4747
39 Ramnath Goenka 4391
40 Bismillah Khan 4315
41 M S Subbulakshmi 4289
42 R K Laxman 3772
43 Dev Anand 3725
44 R K Narayan 3273
45 M F Husain 3270
46 Raj Kapoor 3252
47 Pandit Ravishankar 2729
48 Ela Bhatt 2567
49 Ghanshyam Das Birla 2137
50 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 2122


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:10 pm 
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rana wrote:
Good Topic.

Most of the candidates in the list are the ones that became super rich, or their close ones became super rich, because of their political stature. They need to be condemned, not voted as equal to Mahatama who really never gained a single paisa, for himself or for his family, from his political clout.

I agree. And to me, it seems the exterior multinationls that have come into India in the past 10-12 years have done more for the Indian economy overall than some of these wealthy mentioned figures could have for over 50 years. The latter group failed to accurately utilize it's own people.


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