The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Delhi convenor Ashutosh said: "For an honest MLA of any party, it's impossible to sustain the family… with such a meagre salary. (The) dishonest don't need salary." Does this mean the poor and the middle class, earning meagre salaries, should become dishonest? How are these people surviving? If this is what the AAP government in Delhi thinks, it must provide the required money to every Delhi citizen. Is the AAP ready to do that?
But why would politicians listen to the poor? If genuine demands of the poor were met by plugging loopholes in laws, the powers of politicians would be stripped off. Who would ask them for favours then? The real voters are the poor, who are easily exploited by politicians to vote for them through false promises and short-term benefits.
Mahesh Kumar New Delhi
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