Everyone for sale.

Rajya Sabha member for the Congress, Birender Singh has asserted that people have paid up to Rs 1 billion to " buy " seats in the Rajya Sabha, which is the upper house of the parliament. msn.com, 29 July. " Not one, but I will give you names of twenty ( such ) people," he said in front of a gathering in Yamunanagar in Haryana on 28 July. He said that one Rajya Sabha member " had told me that his budget to become a Rajya Sabha member was Rs 100 crore. He said that his work was done in Rs 80 crore and he saved Rs 20 crore." " People who will spend Rs 100 crore to enter Rajya Sabha, will they think about this poor country?" he asked. " They establish themselves there ( Rajya Sabha ) and then become part of the deals happening there," he said. In India the people have no say in who gets into the Rajya Sabha. Various state assemblies select who should represent the state. Governing parties are able to reward trusted servants who the people reject as utterly distasteful. Being an MP has many rewards. You get a salary of Rs 50,000 per month plus Rs 45,000 a month for office allowances. HT, 13 May, 2012. Rs 150,000 a year for free calls from 3 phones. Rent free fully furnished flats with free washing facilities. 50,000 units of free electricity per year. At Rs 6 a unit that would be a cool Rs 300,000. Rs 20,000 per month as pension for life. Rs 2,000 as daily allowance. Rs 45,000 a month as constituency allowance. 4,000 kilo liters of water every year. Free First class or Executive class air-conditioned travel in trains. That is why when you, as an ordinary person, buy a confirmed first class train ticket well in advance will not given a seat number because if any of these scoundrels decides to travel on the same train you maybe downgraded or thrown off the train and your ticket refunded. 125% of air fares. Subsidised cafeterias inside the parliament. Free chauffeur driven cars with flashing red lights and armed guards. All with taxpayer money. Finally, Rajya Sabha membership may provide opportunities to make some real lolly. If you can become a minister. Rajya Sabha member and Railway Minister, Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew, Vijay Singla was arrested by the CBI on 3 May taking a bribe of Rs 9 million to get one Mahesh Kumar a seat on the Railway Board. Foreigners complain that doing business is difficult in India. We say India is the freest country because everyone is for sale.