Every society needs laws, rules and regulations for cultivating and governing a civilized mass.

However, irrespective of how well thought and researched any legal convention is, at times laws and social conventions might feel like just a burden or rather an imposition.

This is not to say, we need to do away with law-making and lawful societies altogether, but rather to instill or probably restore the thought that what feels right in your heart, mind and soul shouldn’t need legal nod of yes!

Same-sex Relationships:

Illogical norms in the society are just enough to kill the souls and happiness of homosexuals every day. So, at least the laws should be in their favour, to legally protect them from people with sickening mentality.

Age Parameters:

If you are a man in India, you can vote from 18 years onwards, get married after you turn 21 but you can indulge in alcohol consumption only after you turn 25. Does. Not. Make. Sense. And same goes for you if you are a woman, except you are deemed fit for tying the knot two years before your male counterparts!

Reservations:

The only cases where reservation is justified are the ones that guarantee opportunity to talent, skill and aptitude. It’s heartbreaking to see undeserving ‘reserved for’ people conveniently getting ahead on professional or academic front while the deserving ‘general’ counterparts figure ways to do the same.

Protests:

Though there is no act that dismisses ‘peaceful gathering of people without arms to express protest over anything’, yet often such groups are targeted upon by ruling politicians in the name of ‘threat to social harmony’.

Prostitution:

Sex workers have no identity, not by their choice but by law. Their lives, already filled with innumerous social stigmas, are devoid of any legal protection, more or less. Their profession often comes in the way if they try to claim even the most basic human rights.

Countless Taxes:

If you go out to dine, your restaurant bill will comprise not only the bill for the food you ordered but also VAT, Service Tax and often Service Charge. This is just one example of different kind of taxes that are levied on a regular basis on the citizens. The list of taxes is long, and we would find it justifiable only if the money, taken from us, reflected in the country’s development and not the luxuries of politicians.

Many other laws related to adultery, divorce, powers of security groups, etc, are equally illogical and suppressing. The problem is not just with the laws, that are visibly outdated, but also with the ones that are so unclear that they are often twisted and wrongly used. Adding to them are the hate-worthy social conventions in our largely patriarchal society that curbs people’s right to just be.

India, our motherland, is an independent country but the sad legal conventions do not let us to feel so. Untill we do away with them, we won’t be truly free.

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Politics in India has turned out to be a business rather than just social service or a job in the service of the nation!

In this business most of the players, right from MLA’s to MP’s to even aspiring candidates are businessmen with huge turnovers and living life king size!

Yet their hunger for more and more money isn’t getting satisfied as their greed shows new colours every day. A couple of days ago we saw them again asking for a rise in their salaries, in fact doubling their salaries due to rising cost of living. Agreed, cost of living is rising and it is difficult for common man to make ends meet or live a dignified life, but these MP’s are not part of the common population.

They are a privileged class who came into prominence due to their riches and wealth!

Let’s share with you the details of India’s top 10 richest MPs Of India elected to the 2014 Lok Sabha and then you can decide whether they require their salaries to get doubled up:

1) Jayadev Galla

He is an MP from Guntur and belongs to Telugu Desam Party with a net worth of Rs. 683 crores! You guys counting the zeroes in that figure?

2) Konda Vishweshwar Reddy

He is from Telangana Rashtra Samiti and won his seat from Chevella in Telangana. His net worth is Rs. 528 crores. A few thousands extra in his salary are going to make a difference in his life?

3) Gokaraju Ganga Raju

This BJP MP from Narsapuram in Andhra Pradesh is sitting comfortably on a net worth of Rs. 282 crores. Still wants extra perks?

4) Butta Renuka

The YSR Congress MP from Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh is worth Rs. 242 crores. What are few extra thousands for him except loose change?

5) Kamal Nath

Congress MP from Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh is enjoying his life with a net worth of Rs. 206 crores and yet feels his salary should be doubled!

6) Kanwar Singh Tanwar

This BJP MP from Amroha, Uttar Pradesh is worth Rs. 178 crores and still dreaming of getting additional perks with double salary!

7) Hema Malini

Actress and BJP MP from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh is worth Rs. 177 crores. Wondering how a few extra or a few less thousands are going to impact her life in any manner!

8) Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah

Another BJP MP from Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand is worth Rs. 166 crores and instead of lobbying for a better life for people of her constituency, is part of the MP brigade asking for salary hikes!

9) Pappu Yadav

Rashtriya Janta Dal MP from Madhepura, Bihar is known for criminal activities and has a net worth of Rs. 146 crores. He ever thinks about poor people in his constituency?

10) Pinaki Misra

This Biju Janta Dal MP from Puri in Orissa is worth Rs. 137 crores and yet seeking more!

There is no harm in trying to earn more money and absolutely no crime to have net worth of hundreds of thousands of crores. The only problem is that their salaries come from taxes that common man pays without getting adequate facilities in return from the government.

All that a common man gets is poor infrastructure, corruption and bad quality of life despite paying through the nose to make sure these MPs lives a comfortable life. Yet they act like blood-suckers by asking to increase their salary from Rs. 50,000 to Rs.1,00,000/-. It is not about few thousands extra, but about how this extra money could be used for the welfare of common man as this incremental income may not do much for most of these MPs!

Wish they tone down their greed a bit! If not, the ordinary citizen of the country will have to kick them out ASAP!

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