At the cost of sounding really cynical, I have loads of comments to make on the different asset declaration done by our great politicians. Thanks to the Election Commission of India, each person contesting for any polls has to mandatorily declare the value of all his and his families assets. These may include land, property, cash, jewelry or any other form of assets that they may have.
The interesting things that come out of this? You will know how much each one has earned due to his / her stint while in power. A leading newspaper showed today how a regional party’s Food Ministers assets went up 780 times within 5 years while he was in power! And his explanations are that he made a lot of money on agriculture which happened on a plot of 1.1 acres!!!! I know as a fact that this is impossible even if all his money was being put back into agriculture. Mr.Minister, if you are such an awesome investor, why waste your time working as a minister earning a pittance for a salary while you can easily go on to become the next Warren Buffet? Seriously…who are you kidding?
Ohhh….and this is not just one case. The same thing reverberates across political parties, castes, genders…. Blatant use of power the results of which are audited and published while the people whose money is going into these coffers just sit and do absolutely nothing!
One simple common sensical question: Why will a wannabe politician spend crores and crores to buy votes and win if the only thing he was going to get out of the entire thing was a small salary which is also made by a junior manager of an MNC?
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