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According to a report in the Economic Times today, based on the posting in the PMO website, India is having a cabinet of crorepatis. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is also in the list of crorepatis. See below:

1. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime minister    Rs.  10.37 crore

2. Praful Patel, Heavy Industries Minister  Rs.  52.00 crore

3. Sharad Pawar, Agriculture Minister         Rs.  22.0  crore

4. Kapil Sibal, Communications, HR            Rs.  45.33 crore

5. Sushil Kumar Shinde, Home Minister     Rs.  15       crore

6. P.Chidambaram, Finance Minister          Rs.   17      crore

7. Ajit Singh, Civil Aviation Minister            Rs.   13     crore

8. M.K.Alagiri, Chemicals Fertiliser Min.    Rs.     9.5  crore

9. Pawan Kumar Bansal Parliamentary Aff.Rs.     6.65 crore

10.Ghulam Nabi Azad, Health Minister       Rs.     3.42 crore

11.Salman Khurshid Law Minister                Rs.     3.5 crore

12.Kumari Selja,  Housing Minister              Rs.    12.25 crore

13.Kamal Nath, Urban Dev. Minister          Rs.    13.0   crore

14.S.M.Krishna, Extl. Affairs Minister          Rs.      1.89 crore

15.Subodh Kant sahay, Tourism minister    Rs.    70.74 crore

If all these important ministers are crorepatis and many others also, it can aptly be called as crorepati cabinet. As such, it is not surprising that they maximum look after the interests of crorepatis and corporates. In fact, more subsidies have been given by this cabinet to a few thousand/hundred corporates that to the crores of common people of the country. Not only scams in 2G and Coal blocks, but also in every sector since the scams benefit the corporates and the crorepatis.