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Politics, promiscuity and polygamy

August 29, 2009 posted by indiatime |

A storm is brewing inside India’s opposition party, and the rumors and talks about political alliances is ripe once again. They say politics makes strange bedfellows, but whoever ‘they’ are, ‘they’ had little idea how promiscuous Indian politics typically is.

But then again, just as art imitates life, so does politics. Tushar Waghmare, a 40-year old airline engineer in Maharashtra, was recently arrested after police found about that he had married 14 women in twice the number of months. Waghmare used matrimonial sites on the internet and his charms to get into the good books of 14 families. Posing as a divorcee, using false documents, and utilizing fake relatives, he pulled off what now seems like an easy internet scam.

Here’s the statistics of Waghmare’s marital venture. Out of the 14 wives, 5 have filed charges so far, 9 have remained silent or hadn’t yet figured out that they’ve been duped. Most of the 14 are housewives, but one is an engineer and another is an architect. All 14 lives in Mumbai except one who lived a few hundred kilometers away. None of the wives had met any of the others until the last one he married. The wife number 14 visited his second apartment and was greeted by wife number 13. They immediately went to the police and managed to stop Waghmare’s marital streak to 14.

In his short but successful stint as a serial husband and polygamist, Waghmare proved himself to be a man of many talents - an incredible manager (managing 14 families in one salary), a savvy netizen (using new media to fullest avantage), a slick charmer (charming 14 different families), a careful forgerer (faked documents to create a few identities). But above all that, Waghmare is a politician, whose ease and expertise in making alliances, may eventually open up a new career for him, once he is out of jail.

On second thoughts, let me take that last sentence back. Waghmare doesn’t need to be out of jail to be successful in Indian politics. He can not only contest a parliamentary election, he can most certainly become a parliament member and probably a lot more. And trust me, he will only be a petty criminal at best if you go ahead and compare his crimes to many other Indian politicians who contested their elections, won and now have bigger & better criminal enterprises in their official capacities.


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  1. Mayuresh Gaikwad on August 29, 2009 8:24 pm

    What is “Maharashtrian Charm”? I have never heard of it, either in a positive or in a negative context. You seem to have un-necessarily pulled an entire community into the crimes of an individual

  2. indiatime on August 29, 2009 9:11 pm

    @Mayuresh
    You have a point. Have updated the post since.

    Incidentally, there was a similar case in Maharashtra many many years ago, where a tobacco merchant originally from Nipani (near Maharashtra-Karnataka border) managed to marry several women in Maharashtra, taking on many different personalities.

  3. Lakhoba Lokhande on August 29, 2009 9:37 pm

    That is correct. Famous marathi writer Acharya Atre wrote a play about that polygamous crook and the character Lakhoba Lohnade is a famous character in marathi theatre.

  4. manjit on August 29, 2009 11:19 pm

    There just gullible women and their families too eager to get them married off. So they don’t go through any due diligence, and don’t investigate strangers (which is not that diffcult nowadays) with marriage proposals. This person exploited that weakness and looks like he would married several times more if he hadn’t been caught this time.

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