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Updated on: 29 April,2009 11:09 AM IST |
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Capt Gopinath, the pioneer of budget flying and MP candidate from Bangalore South, tells B V Shivashankar he now wants to be mayor

Capt Gopinath, the pioneer of budget flying and MP candidate from Bangalore South, tells B V Shivashankar he now wants to be mayor

>>Has Plan B ready in case he does not make it as Bangalore South MP.
>>Is preparing for mayoral elections, likely in November.
>>IT-BT head honchos such as Mohandas Pai and Kiran Majumdar are attending a meeting of his supporters on May 9.
>>His air cargo operations, Deccan Express Logistics, opens on May 8 in Delhi with three A310 planes.
>>And for rest, he is going to his native Gorur, in Hassan district.
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Spreading his wings: Captain Gopinath at work in his office on Residency Road pic/Satish Badiger

His philosophy
MPs can do little for a city's development as the real power lies with the local bodies," he told MiD DAY. "For now, I will spend some time in my farm. I will read books and magazines and work in the farm

But will he win?
"Well, conventional analysts say I won't, but non-conventional analysts say I will."

As for the other professional...

Meenakshi Seshadri, software engineer and wife of Krishna Byre Gowda, the Congress candidate from Bangalore (South), returned to SGC Information Systems in Electronics City yesterday. She had taken a three-week break to campaign for her husband and other Congress leaders.

"I spent three days at home after the polls," said Meenakshi. "I had to clean up the mess and set everything in order before going back to work."

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