MPs' Raise In Salary

So in the last few days we have seen a rare sight of our parliamentarians getting together unanimously for a particular cause, does not matter if it were only for their RISE IN SALARY AND EMOLUMENTS !!! C'mon countrymen, you are not going to see this sight for any other cause whatsoever so hail the occasion rather than cribbing over it.

Country is bound to face the humiliation at the international level because of the Commonwealth mess, in Leh-Ladakh the situations are bad, armed forces men are returning their medals because of your policies, Mayawati refuses to implement Right to Education Act because SHE HAS NO MONEY, she also refuses to compensate the victims of stampede in Pratapgarh because of money issues, Bhopal gas victims get only few thousands in compensation...a small list of issues of lesser importance, I suppose. Despite all this, we never saw even a fruitful debate on any of these issues, much less a full house. There was a proposal years back to make death sentence the punishment for the crime of rape. I didn't hear of that proposal seeing the light of day.

But the moment the proposal is passed for raising the salaries of the MPs..VOILA !!! It is passed the same day, will be implemented in the same session and also with retrospective effect !!!

I know that once a person is a politician, he/she is completely selfish, but he/she can be shameless and insensitive to such an extent that I came to know only now. They know that the load on the tax payer for this act of theirs would be upwards of Rs 100 Crore per annum. This is in the wake of rising inflation and constant increase in the number of people living below the poverty line.

Had this Rs 100 Crore (for one year) been utilized for any of the aforesaid causes, the people would have happily accepted your raise probably in the next session. MPs give reference of the service to the people. They know that the public is disgusted by this act of theirs. But to justify their cause, they come up with all the silly reasons - Naveen Jindal cites the expenses and the staff the MP has to maintain. He talks about a research person which an MP has to maintain. Has anyone ever heard of any research conducted by Mr. Jindal ?? Ravi Shankar Prasad cites, among other expenses, the marriages the MP has to attend during the marriage season and the money he has to give there. Don't you think MPs that you are getting a bit overboard in order to justify this disgusting act of yours?

Rather than bestowing this on yourself, it would be better if you deserve this by your deeds but neither have you done this in the past 60 years nor would you ever. You are right when you say that there are still some MPs who are very poor and who don't live the life of luxury cited by the people. Sohail Seth, in reply to this, says that they were not asked to become the MPs. They knew what they were about to get. But I do not agree with this view. If we despise the poor MPs like this, in future, we have no right to claim for an honest MP because an honest person can never be rich !!!! I would rather say that those poor MPs, along with the people of the country, are the victims of the Jungle Raj of our Regular MPs.

Guys, public is watching !!! Your biggest mistake is that you think the public is a sheep which can be made to move in any direction. But you are wrong. Be afraid of the future.

MTC

Commonwealth Or Common Wealth

Lately, I have been thinking on this PROJECT quite a lot as to whether it should be called Commonwealth 2010 or Common Wealth 2010 ?!?

Proud moment it was when India got the opportunity to play host to the Commonwealth Games 2010. It was, as well, an opportunity to strengthen our international image by hosting the Games successfully and gloriously. But, Indians being Indians, cracks in the preparations were visible right from the start when the news came out that the Capital was being just dug up here and there.

According to the schedule, the stadia and other buildings were to be handed over to the Committee in the start of August, 2010 for the final decorative works but, now when about only 55 days are left, even the construction is not complete much less the decoration works. It was there in the news the other day that the swimming pool for the games was constructed and then they realized that ITS NOT ACCORDING TO THE SPECIFICATIONS and, hence, it was to be redone. Was there any harm in being careful right from the start so that we could save time and extra expense now? Elevators are not done till now. All that could be seen were niches in the wall. Roofs are leaking. One can very well imagine what is going to be the spectacle once the games start. And before the Games start, the athletes would need the stadia for the practice also. Even if they COMPLETE the work, can they assure it would be of the international glory ??!!?? NO !!

Complete grip of corruption. We had reconciled with the fact that in our country, corruption is as much a part of the lives as is food and water but at least they could spare the national honour from being crushed in the clutches!!! But for our leaders, only thing that matters is their own self. Country is just the ATM machine for them.

The budget for the Games is about 1 Lakh Crores !!! According to Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav, this much is not even budget of various States. Several crores have been spent on raising a massive balloon with modern gadgets installed and other several crores have been spent in importing that from the UK. Guys, these seasonings look nice when the basic work is complete. Wish you had sense enough to realize this.

Athletes have already started backing out. Some country has denied to participate if the preparations are not according to the specifications. Australia clearly said that they are sure they are not going to get anything and if they do, it would not be up to the mark and that they may have to stay at the top of a building with no elevators. UK is sending MOSQUITO REPELLENT with their athletes !! What the hell?!? Does it not give an idea of our reputation outside already ?

Seeing all this, still politicos are SURE that this is going to be the best Commonwealth ever !!! If this is so, why Kalmadi goes on back foot when questioned by the journalists and Gill utters shit in the Parliament on such a sensitive issue? When opposition starts to nail the Government on the corruption, Sanjay Nirupam of Congress, rather than answering the allegations, in turn gets down to point the corruption of the opposition. Our PM and Sonia are not heard at all till now. They say that the issue is being politicized, but I say that after so much the Government has done, opposition is completely justified in coming to the fore and these politicos need be completely nailed.

We Indians are already not respected outside for thousand reasons and after this seeming disaster of CWG 2010, disrespect will be amplified all the more.

I wanna ask the Government that what on earth have they made of this country ??!!?? You make a mockery of yourself, its your own life but you have no right to compromise the honour of WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA internationally. You may have distanced yourself from the country but we still are a part of her. And remember, we just ELECT you but don't ASSOCIATE ourselves with you. So we would really appreciate if you kindly leave us alone.

MTC