<!--QuoteBegin-shamu+Apr 12 2009, 11:03 PM-->QUOTE(shamu @ Apr 12 2009, 11:03 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The thing many people outside of Kerala is not aware of is that A K Antony has a very clean image, is not corrupt, and has refused to use his official power for personal gains. I have heard many times that church in Kerala prefers Hindu Karunakaran as CM over Antony because they could extract maximum concessions from Karunakaran, rather than from Antony. When Antony was Kerala CM, he had visited Matha Amritanandamayi's ashram and had said something like he gets more peace when he visits Ammachi, and many church members were unhappy about that.
One thing that is negative about him is that he is not capable to making strong position. This indicates there is no guarantee that his assistants or subordinates are clean. I have not analyzed if church uses his clean image to present one image and do somethng behind him.[right][snapback]96361[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I just did a better search on him and the following sorts of things came up and support what you say:
1. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2005/12/fro...orest-loot.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Anonymous said...
  Toney Christist, you got nicely caught in that trap I set. I expected you to say exactly this and its ROTFLMAO time.
  So you Christists will take care of Chandy and Mani? How, by pouring Manorama and Muthoot money into getting them nice cushy jobs?
  But you Christists got rid of <b>AK Anthony. He is the only good Christist in Kerala, probably because he is an atheist.</b> You guys got rid of him, because he said "The minorities in Kerala have abused the system and become rich." This is the gospel truth. So you got rid of him.
  But the Hindus did get rid of the villian Karunakaran as promised. He is without a job, and so are his beloved son and daughter.
  Just goes to show, Toney Christist, that if there is a good person, you crucify him. Isn't that what you claim to have done to Jesus himself?
  12/09/2005 9:27 AM<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->A truly secular irreligious politician is naturally to be preferred to corrupt Hindu ones (goes without saying that such a politician would be preferable to subversive christian ones). Of course such a person's choice of associates would matter as well, and the degree to which (s)he - and not less secular others - are in charge.
2. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2006/10/uig...ression-of.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ghost Writer said...
  @ drisyadrisya
  <i>A K Anthony as Defence Minister.. what do u think,...</i>
  <b>Anthony is much better than the Commies that Kerala now has</b> - and he certainly has a carefully cultivated 'Honest Man' image - but I can't help thinking- the last time we had a Keralite in the Defence Ministry - the Chinese whipped our ass! ......
  10/25/2006 4:54 PM<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just to clarify, the following statement was not written by sulekha's "arkabala" but was Francois Gautier's original statement which arkabala reposted:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://arkabala.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008...ts/pageno-2.htm
Karnataka is virtually controlled by AK Anthony, whose secretaries are all from the Southern Christian association.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
One thing that is negative about him is that he is not capable to making strong position. This indicates there is no guarantee that his assistants or subordinates are clean. I have not analyzed if church uses his clean image to present one image and do somethng behind him.[right][snapback]96361[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I just did a better search on him and the following sorts of things came up and support what you say:
1. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2005/12/fro...orest-loot.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Anonymous said...
  Toney Christist, you got nicely caught in that trap I set. I expected you to say exactly this and its ROTFLMAO time.
  So you Christists will take care of Chandy and Mani? How, by pouring Manorama and Muthoot money into getting them nice cushy jobs?
  But you Christists got rid of <b>AK Anthony. He is the only good Christist in Kerala, probably because he is an atheist.</b> You guys got rid of him, because he said "The minorities in Kerala have abused the system and become rich." This is the gospel truth. So you got rid of him.
  But the Hindus did get rid of the villian Karunakaran as promised. He is without a job, and so are his beloved son and daughter.
  Just goes to show, Toney Christist, that if there is a good person, you crucify him. Isn't that what you claim to have done to Jesus himself?
  12/09/2005 9:27 AM<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->A truly secular irreligious politician is naturally to be preferred to corrupt Hindu ones (goes without saying that such a politician would be preferable to subversive christian ones). Of course such a person's choice of associates would matter as well, and the degree to which (s)he - and not less secular others - are in charge.
2. http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2006/10/uig...ression-of.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ghost Writer said...
  @ drisyadrisya
  <i>A K Anthony as Defence Minister.. what do u think,...</i>
  <b>Anthony is much better than the Commies that Kerala now has</b> - and he certainly has a carefully cultivated 'Honest Man' image - but I can't help thinking- the last time we had a Keralite in the Defence Ministry - the Chinese whipped our ass! ......
  10/25/2006 4:54 PM<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just to clarify, the following statement was not written by sulekha's "arkabala" but was Francois Gautier's original statement which arkabala reposted:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://arkabala.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008...ts/pageno-2.htm
Karnataka is virtually controlled by AK Anthony, whose secretaries are all from the Southern Christian association.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Death to traitors.