08-27-2006, 09:34 PM
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<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Optima'>It hurts to realise how easily some MPs - out of the 545 in the Lok Sabha and less than 250 in the Rajya Sabha - take all of us, the voters, for granted. Many of them do not do their required homework for parliamentary duties. They come and sign the attendance record that ensures payment of their daily allowances. They write on slips of paper that often passes for a memorandum handed to ministers, highlighting grievances or demands, and then would like the media to report about it. .</span></span>
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Optima'>It hurts to realise how easily some MPs - out of the 545 in the Lok Sabha and less than 250 in the Rajya Sabha - take all of us, the voters, for granted. Many of them do not do their required homework for parliamentary duties. They come and sign the attendance record that ensures payment of their daily allowances. They write on slips of paper that often passes for a memorandum handed to ministers, highlighting grievances or demands, and then would like the media to report about it. .</span></span>