Should we be forced to walk while they travel in convoy?

Like mafia bosses Indian politicians are used to making arbitrary decisions and enforcing them on us, because it suits them to do so. The decision to ban cars with odd and even registration numbers on alternate days has been taken, not because it will help people by reducing pollution, but because it is a means of earning cheap popularity by socialists who seek to please their 'vote bank' by tormenting the middle class. It is shameful, because it is mean and vindictive. Of course, politicians cannot get away with their nefarious activities without the support of an army of sycophants, known as 'chamchas', which means 'spoons'. A poll has found that 58% of people in metro cities think that restricting private cars will reduce pollution. How many people were asked? A grand total of, wait for it, 528 people in 6 metro cities, of which half, or 264, were in Delhi. The population of Delhi alone is over 18 million. We are not told whether these are car owners or are plain jealous. True, Delhi, at 10.79%, has the highest rate of people commuting to work by car, followed by Chennai at 6.14%. That is because public transport is very poor in Delhi, distances are vast, sexual harassment is rampant in buses and very often you need a vehicle to get to the nearest metro station or bus stop. Very few people drive for pleasure because poor traffic management results in massive traffic jams. The Traffic Police in Delhi never help the people by ensuring a smooth flow of traffic but are used to extract fines from drivers, often on flimsy grounds. Why is this order pure political thuggery? Because two-wheelers will not be affected, even though they cause 31% of pollution as against only 20% by cars. A study by IIT Kanpur says that car and jeeps contribute less than 10% of pollutants. Dust particles are a major hazard and huge amounts of dust are produced by construction activities, most of it illegal, in Delhi. Since that is where the black money is politicians conveniently ignore it. Not only that, motorcycles and scooters are greater pollutants than cars. They emit less CO2 but far more of other toxic gases which are worse for human health so exempting two-wheelers shows that the Delhi government is fooling people while potentially increasing earnings of auto drivers, who are great supporters of the Chief Minister. No doubt politicians will continue to be escorted by a posse of police cars with flashing red lights, known as 'lal battis' by the hapless suffering populace. To put it in perspective, 30% of people do not commute to work, 22.6% walk, 13.1% travel by bicycle, 12.7% travel by two-wheelers and 11.4% by bus. That comprises a huge 89.8%. Shouldn't our politicians be trying to ensure that everyone is rich enough to possess cars? Then they would not be able to win elections with socialism. So keep everyone poor. Scum.