NEP(National Economic planning) Presentation Script.

The wait is over.... the blog is back J

For starters I will be posting my script for National Economic Planning(NEP) which fetched me 81 marks, it was conducted by Prof. Sray Agarwal.

The topic is “Politicians should be asked to work for free”(Against the motion).

“Only a ghost can exists without materialistic property, Only a slave can work with no right to the product of his effort”.

They say Politicians should not be paid, okay than lets not pay them. There are about 543 member of parliament, each getting Rs. 50,000 as their basic salary, thus it amounts to Rs. 32 crores annually. Whereas revenues from direct taxes alone stood at Rs. 3,71,000 crores for the financial year 2009-10, its 0.008% for handling the lives of 1.2 billion people and still they don’t pay them.

The Governor of California gets $165,000 ,a humongous amount, but wait he presides over a budget of 150 billion dollars that’s 7.5 lac crore rupees, and still some say handle such an economy for free.

The main argument that the opposition has given us is that Politics is a social obligation, those who join politics should treat it as a social service, hence work for free. Mamata Banerjee, immediately after winning the west Bengal elections, one of her first statement was the state is in a financial crisis, but she has too look for the means to pay her ministers. Amit Mitra, was a former FICCI general secretary, he used to earn 49 lacs per annum, he treated the finance ministry as a profession. You expect people like him to join politics, if you pay them nothing.

They say, politicians are corrupt, if they are corrupt, govt. Officials are also corrupt, police officials, corporate bodies, all are corrupt, We don’t discuss their salaries, Why such hypocrisy ?

It might mean two things, first being politicians are corrupt and useless, the other being politicians do manage on their own. If politicians are useless, I don’t think we should discuss “they should be paid or not”, we should discuss the political system, I say there should be no political system at all, let there be no democracy, only demonocracy, let their be no waving off loans to the farmers, let the children die of hunger (no mid-day meal schemes),no infrastructure, no banks, no highways, no hospitals...... If you mean that the politicians can manage on their own, we are actually pushing them into more and more corruption, Instead we should say that politicians should be paid more and more salaries that they don’t ever revert back to corruption ever again.

I ask a very simple question, “ Will you work for a social organization for free, for five years?”... If the answer is no, “Will you work, if you are paid ?”

The social organization is nothing but politics my dear friend, thus if mba graduates like us, refuse to join politics for “free”, how can we think of the betterment of the country..

At last, I would like to quote, Ayn Rand from the book “Atlas Shrugged”,

“You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment, We exist for the sake of earning rewards, Threats will not make us function, Fear is not our incentive, It is not death we wish to avoid, But life we wish to live.”

Thank You.