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MPs splurge on poor citizens' money
It has been very disgraceful for an institution like the Parliament that its members without scruple or compunction succeeded in augmenting their pay & perks in an insensitive and unabashed manner. Are they the true representatives of the majority of Indians who cover themselves in rags and live on crumbs? If the parties of Laloo, Mulayam, Mayavati or Soren spearheaded the pay-hike vociferous disorderliness on the floor and disrupted the parliamentary proceedings for self-aggrandizement it is comprehensible for obvious reasons. People of the country know these persons. But what about others belonging to JDU, Congress and some others. It is utter lack of accountability if not immoral.
With people starving, food grains rotting in Govt. godowns, prices of essential commodities escalating, the politicians rejoice in scams, scandals,muddles and loot of public money. Then why need for extra money that is only a drop in the ocean (only about 5-lakh a month; if pay, office allowance, parliamentary allowances ,free accommodation, TA & DA, free air-rail passes for the couple, free meal & break fast, canteen facilities in parliament, almost free electricity and telephone-mobile bills, free best medical care and many more such allowances are consolidated in monetary terms.
Huge corruption in IPL games, Commonwealth games, NREG, MPs’ funds, questions for money and other means are there even then the greed and cravings?
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