I had written earlier this year, during election time, about how tough it is for me to decide who to vote for.
If there's one thing on which there's complete unanimity among our politicians, cutting across party lines, it is in their sheer incompetence and apathy towards their electorate.
I have not been able to choose the lesser/greater devil between the Congress and the BJP (the two parties most people can think of voting for, atleast at the national level).
An unprecedented number of MPs skipped Parliament yesterday, to miss presenting even their own submitted questions in the Question Hour.
Now, that's a new low they've scaled even by their own standards.
One wonders what's the use of wasting so much of the taxpayers' money when it is going to be spent on the Speaker of the House just calling up names of MPs one after another, only to find them missing from the scene - the apalling part is that this, is when they know they have submitted a question and will be required in the House to atleast present their case.
It's not even a case of one or two such luminaries going MIA - no less than 34 MPs who had submitted their questions were found to be absent from the Question Hour proceedings.
And then they come and ask us for votes, and urge us to pay our taxes on time - what for? This?
While it is definitely and shall always remain our duty to always pay our taxes (voluntarily), it is also our right to ensure that the money we shell out is utilised optimally.
The way they behave and launder our money, will our politicians be able to ask us to pay up taxes?
Will they be able to tell us how they are spending that money, while looking us in the eye?
Well, I guess, they can and will continue to do so.
For, had they been so shameful or regretful, I would never have been in a dilemma over which party is less worse.
