CONTROLLING ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES Our lawmakers are behaving like Maharajas and enforce laws that no civilised democratic nation should have under the guise of security or controlling corruption. However they will not ensure that no tickets are given to criminals and tainted candidates! The loosely worded National Securities Act (NSA) and deadly Sedition Laws are misused by government to arrest/jail anyone who the governemnt wants to shut up/disagrees with or get rid of with impunity. Give them half a chance and they will misuse power like for example Aadhar imposition and expansion, diluting people's right to security/privacy, without proper infrastructure for safe implementation, resulting in starvation deaths and untold miseries for the people! It is high time we all agree to tell government the following, briefly: 1) Rules must be made both for Centre and States that absentism of any Minister for more than three months automatically results in removal from post. Long medical illness reimbursed only if treated in government hospitals/in India! Details of medical expenditures to be available on government sites. Scrap their current health care system to participate in same health care system as the indian people 2) They have to generally abide by all laws imposed on the indian people 3)Serving in Parliament is an honor, not lucrative career. Retirement age should be fixed. They are public servants paid from the exchequer and must come under RTI 4) Pay should be revised by the Central Pay Commision and not permitted voting for themselves as at present 5) Transparency and accountability required. Financial losses incurred/ attributed to politicians in office must be recovered from them 6) Mindset of "Lal Batti" superiority must be removed practically on the ground so we can all see and feel the difference. This is the very least we can all unitedly canvas for as a start in public interest?
