Why MP salary hiked...?

Can you imagine vegetarian meal pack for Rs.12.50 in india..? Here we go, our poor MPs don't have money to satisfy their food needs when they are seriously discussing about welfare and development of Indian people. That's why un-revised food prices are still there in Parliament canteens. Pity on you MPs, you guys cannot afford to buy the below mentioned food items for the cheap rates. Now People of india will understand why you people opted for Salary rise to 80K (ssshhhh.., that resolution was made in ten minute when Cauvery issue had been there for decades. Never mind, why do you guys want to think about that).

Parliament House Canteen Food Rates
Tea Re. 1
Soup Rs.5.50
Dal - one katori Rs.1.50
Veg thali (dal, subzi,4 chapatis, rice/pulao, curd and salad) Rs.12.50
Non-veg thali Rs.22
Curd rice Rs.11
Veg pulao Rs.8
Chicken biryani Rs.34
Fish curry and rice Rs.13
Rajma rice Rs.7
Tomato rice Rs.7
Fish fry Rs.17
Chicken curry Rs.20.50
Chicken masala Rs.24.50
Butter chicken Rs.27
Chapati Re.1 a piece
One plate rice Rs.2
Dosa Rs.4
Kheer - one katori Rs.5.50
Fruit cake Rs.9.50
Fruit salad Rs.7

Subsidised food for MPs, however, is not the only thing that has come under public criticism. It is the whole kit and caboodle of perks and privileges parliamentarians are enjoying at public expense, especially the tax-free vehicles on soft loans. Jumbo cabinets with a large number of deputies maintained at a tremendous cost to the state coffers have also been of grave concern to taxpayers languishing under a soaring cost of living.

If fuel prices must be marked to market, why not prices in the Parliament canteen? Where else in India can you get lunch for under Rs 10?

Public resentment stems mainly from hubris and attendant callousness on the part of politicians, reflected in the way they conduct themselves in public. For example, there is a ceasefire on and the ruling party politicians sound sanguine about the country not reverting to war. But they retain armed guards, move about with escorts and keep personal weapons.

If the situation in the country is so peaceful as it is made out to be, then why on earth can’t these politicians do without their weapons and armed guards and travel like other civilians?

How many of those parliamentarians who have opted to pay ‘more’ for their food, have declared their assets in compliance with the law? Only a few. It is this serious omission that has left room for corruption. None will mind these political worthies eating even five star food for free, if they abstain from bribery and corruption(at least spend the little money for constituency development). That alone will make this country prosper.

No attempt is—lest it should be mistaken—being made to pooh-pooh the decision to increase parliament food prices. It is laudable as was said earlier. But that alone is not enough. Politicians have to forgo much more in the public interest.

Over to you, ‘the servants of the people’!