Not so platinum behavior will get you kicked out of office occasionally...

I don't know much about Indian politics. It's a massive country with an even larger population that makes the diversity in America look like the diversity you find in Arlington, Virginia. So this article on their elections was pretty interesting. There are just so many parties and so many regions of the country. I'm always surprised that India hasn't split into thirty little countries like the post-soviet union states. Still, it appears there are some constants across the world. Apparently, people don't like it when you use eminent domain to take their land, regardless of where you live. Priceless quote below:

This time, the Communists seem to have got a drubbing in their longtime stronghold state of West Bengal — paradoxically, over the way its investor-friendly leaders tried to forcibly acquire farmland for industry.