Yesterday i voted and with me voted all of darjeeling!!! This time around Darjeeling was in the news and for the right reasons. Jaswant Singh and the BJP put Darjeeling in the National Scene, CNN IBN, STAR, you name them and they were there, reporting live from our very small town. Today's newspapers state a 80% turnout I guess the highest in years of parliamentary polls. The Communists are scared to death and so want a sre-poll. GJMM is confident, Roshan Giri yesterday was telling the reporters that he is 100% sure and Jaswant says he is happy about the turnout. I was lucky to come across Jaswant Singh at his hotel yesterday in Darjeeling and I was even lucky that I had a camera with me and so i share with you guys a few photos that i took yesteday.
Politics is not a SERVICE anymore but a PROFESSION
SALARY AND GOVERNMENT CONCESSIONS FOR A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP)
Monthly Salary Rs.12000 /-
Expense for Constitution per month Rs.14000 /-
Office expenditure per monthRs.14000/-
Travelling concession (Rs. 8 per km) Rs.48000/-(eg. For a visit from South India to Delhi & return: 6000 km)
Daily DA TA during parliamentary meets: Rs. 500/day
Charge for I Class (A/C) in train (with their spouses or companions). Free for any number of times, (All over India) MP’s spouse gets eight additional air tickets to travel anywhere in India.
Charge for Business Class in flights: Free for 40 trips / year (with wife or P.A)
Rent for MP hostel at Delhi – Free
Each MP is entitled to a fully furnished bungalow in Delhi for a nominal rent of Rs.2000 a month (these houses are located in prime areas of the capital, where the commercial rent would normally be at least 25 times more)
Free Water and Electricity at home: Free up to 50000 units.
Four telephone lines (one meant for matters relating to his/her constituency, one for making calls to Delhi and the third for Internet access) and the optional fourth one with 1,70,000 free calls a year.
The unused free call time of the cellular services of BSNL can be transferred to their respective mobile phones.
The medical expenses of MPs and their family members are drawn from the Union Government ‘s Contributory Health Service Scheme.
TOTAL EXPENSES FOR A MP (HAVING NO QUALIFICATION) PER YEAR :
Rs.3200000/- (i.e 2.66 LAKH /MONTH)
TOTAL EXPENSE FOR 5 YEARS: 1,60,00,000/-
FOR 534 MPs, THE EXPENSE FOR 5 YEARS RS.8,54,40,00,000 (NEARLY 855 CRORES)
This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and the price hike on our regular commodities…….
REMEMBER TO VOTE – YOUR VOTE IS VERY HIGHLY VALUABLE.
