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Amrita Singh
Resident, Kanhaiya Nagar
People’s representatives or ‘public servants’, as they like to call themselves, have been leeching off taxpayer money forever. Now they are not even trying to hide it any more. Unfair as it is, it does not surprise me: at a time when citizens are still trying to recover the losses they had suffered in the pandemic years, our central and state governments continue to be the blind-eyed inconsiderate bodies that they are.
Manya Narula
Mental health professional
Antara Baluni
Student and theatre artist
As a college student, it is really difficult to keep everything within the budget. Prices of daily commodities going up makes it even more difficult. Most of the money goes into metro fare, what’s left goes into personal care and stationery. Now that prices will go up further, I have to ask for extra money from my father. What’s even more frustrating is that his salary won’t go up like the MLAs of Delhi. We are three sisters so I know that we have to tighten our belts from August.
Deepak Gupta
Student of Law
The levy of GST has made living more expensive. The government does not have sufficient funds, accordingly the GST is increased. If the cost of living is high for the common citizen, then it is also high for the people who are elected to render social welfare to the common people (MLAs, MPs). Therefore, increase in their salary is nowhere opposed to the soul of the Constitution as well as to public welfare.
Hari Chandra Jha
Entrepreneur, founder of Praharx
As residents of Delhi, we need to pass a bill holding elected officials and bureaucrats accountable for their jobs. This is taxpayer money that they are splurging on themselves. States are getting into debt through such wasteful expenditure and quality of life is not improving at all for the citizens – only for politicians. It’s not a surprise that the AAP government has been most unfriendly to the Delhi middle class!
Mohd Aquib
Student
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