From: S.Shiva.kumar@professionals.com <shivas@india.hp.com>

Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 00:36:08 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated : Joginder singh CBI Director.

Reasons : Joginder singh has shown a high degree of maturity showing why CBI can't perform Independently, He has worked under a heavy presure from political parties.

He had a chance to prove in india that currupt people will be punished by arresting PVN former PM and lallo yadav.

Every body gets a chance to serve their country once in their life time, joginder lost his chance and never again.

His moral will help in understanding the present condition and curruption in india.

Joginder singh has shown even becoming CBI director is not enough to curb the curruption at high levels.

Jogi should be the person of the year on the grounds that to protect a most currupt man one hould prove to be best in curruption.

He has set a moral that life time chance of serving the country can be missed like this, For this kind of imp positions selections should not be done by political persons.

From: RAJEEV.ATTAM@professionals.com <ATTAM.RAJEV@NORTHPORT.VA.GOV>

Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 02:07:33 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated : J J ALPHONS

Reasons : TOO MANY REASONS TO WRITE

From: SRIRAM.RAVULAPATI@professionals.com <sriramr@engr.uky.edu>

Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 04:42:26 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated : P.V.NARSIMHA RAO

Reasons : He is the best p.m.his brain is awesome. he has the intellect no one has in india.my only wish is that he should come out of all cases with a clean chit and become p.m. again.i'm pretty confident that he'll come out of this bad phase of his and become p.m. again.

From: Sunil.Asthana@professionals.com <sunil.asthana@fmr.com>

Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:10:06 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated : Justice J. S. Verma

Reasons : For initiating judicial activism, the only possible saviour of the nation

From: Raghu.Pantangi@professionals.com <raghu@valuecad.com>

Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:55:32 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated : Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Reasons : Atal Bihari Vajpayee is deserved to become PM of india again. He dedicated his whole life for the the Glory of India. India never, ever can have this kind of Personality. Vandematram

From: Prakash.Nallamilli@professionals.com <prakash@valuecad.com>

Date sent: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 19:01:04 -0800 (PST)

Person Nominated : Leander Paes

Reasons : He truly deserves the Person of the Year! Let it be Rediff Person of the Year or any other Person of the Year for that matter.

In a world of corrupted Indian politics, I do not think any politician to be in this list of nominations. India really needs a hero like Leander Paes. It is about time, India has its name in the Olympic medal winners list, thanks to Leander Paes. By selecting him as person of the year, we can set an example to Indian Youth, what we can do, despite all the odds.

I undoubtedly cast my vote to Leander Paes to be the person of the year.

From: Rama Govindaraju <rama@vnet.ibm.com>

Date sent: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 02:25:15 -0500

Person Nominated : Manmohan SIngh

Reasons : The only individual in the Indian political arena in whom people have some trust.

From: Swaminathan Ramachandran <Ramachandran#m#_Swaminathan*@msgate.apple.com>

Date sent: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 08:25:25 -0500

Person Nominated : Arundhati Ghose

Reasons : Impressive campaigning against NPT. Best thing is, I read about her in a magazine that a couple of taxi drivers identified her as 'NPT wali' in an Indian city (I don't remember if it is Delhi or Mumbai)

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