My appreciation for the material posted in the blog under the heading - hands off parliamentarians.
While one can understand the frustration of pensioners, the action of the author smacks of some sort of juvenile jealousy!
GN SRIDHARAN
It is a good reply to those who shout something from the
rooftops. I had occasions to hear such
talks in the past also. Once I received
an email message. It was sent by a
Branch Manager of an Insurance company.
He was hardly a graduate and was drawing around Rs.75000/- a month. But he could not fully digest the fact that
Parliament Members were receiving as much amount as salary. He had also sent me lunch menu of Parliament
canteen and amount charged for each item.
2. It is also fashionable to some of us to talk about salary and other allowances
paid to the President of our Republic. These
people may even think that President is just a person who is to act on the
advice of the Prime Minister. So why
should we have Rashtrapati Bhavan itself. An office, preferably near PM’s office and a
person elected as President should serve the purpose. Cost is drastically reduced, file movements
are made fast and the whole purpose of getting his signature is made really
easy. People sometimes are very mean in
their attitude and they fail to look beyond their nose.
3. In my opinion, what is required is they should be really
paid a very decent salary and other attractive benefits. At the same time we
should ignore the campaign “no work no pay”(something like that, prepared by a
person claiming to possess a Doctorate) pension commensurate with number of years of
service rendered (not exactly what is written), DR this and that whichever is
lower etc. This sort of feeling
emanates from a superiority complex that these people are intellectually far
more superior than the poor members of Parliament.
You ask for pension.
That’s your business. But you should
be noble enough to spare others.
Rajasekharpaliath Coimbatore.
