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Profile: The rise and fall of Madhu Koda
Published on Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 21:18 in Politics section
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New Delhi: For Madhu Koda, it all began from a very humble background. His father, Rasika, even now lives in the same village where Koda grew up. Sixty-eight-year-old Rasika makes his ends meet by tilling a half acre land deep in the heart of Jharkhand.
While Koda senior still stays in a village, Koda Junior has made five-star hotels in state capitals his permanent address and is now neck deep in a corruption scandal worth Rs 4,000 crore.
It all started in the year 2000 when Koda first got elected as a BJP MLA and became a minister under Babu Lal Marandi.
In 2005, denied a ticket from the BJP, Koda fought and won as an independent and this was when he really hit jackpot. In return for supporting Arjun Munda's chief ministerial bid, Koda ensured that he got the Mines and Geology portfolio.
In 2007, he withdrew support to the BJP alongwith other independents and joined hands with the UPA and became the country's first independent chief minister.
What it proves beyond doubt is that Madhu Koda was in demand from all sides. As a backward tribal leader with considerable influence in south Jharkhand, the Congress and the BJP were both his friends - though with allegations of a scam running deep, both parties have now washed their hands off him.
While, Congress in-charge for Jharkhand, Keshav Rao said, "We have nothing to do with Koda," BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "The allegations just go to show how corrupt the Congress is."
From being a simple labourer in 1990 to becoming the chief minister of Jharkhand, it's been a fairy tale journey for Madhu Koda - A journey which has now hit a huge hurdle.
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