Stupendous increase in wealth

The latest study to come out of Shushanoner Janney Nagarik (Shujan) has unearthed some startling facts. It merely goes to reinforce what has been published in the press for the past few weeks. Not only have government salaries increased anywhere between 243 – 464 per cent, the percentage of increase in benefits for certain parliamentarians cross the 1,000 per cent threshold. Apparently the deputy whip's yearly income went up by 4,435 per cent. Our incredulity does not stop there when confronted by the fact that assets and incomes of junior ministers have outstripped that of their senior colleagues, with one particular minister's income stated to have risen by an astronomical proportion! Looking beyond the amassing of wealth by whatever means, which appear to have become second nature to our esteemed lawmakers, we are taken aback at the freestyle increase of government benefits to parliamentarians.
There seems to be no method to the money chase; rather it has become a free-for-all contest. Are these lawmakers elected by the people, for the people, or for themselves? The estimates that have been released defy imagination. The direct involvement of lawmakers in business ventures, according to experts, is a violation of the constitution. The question is then precisely where do the people turn to if their elected representatives are themselves involved in ignoring the constitution? The sorry state of our politics becomes altogether clearer with these revelations, and it is time the practice were halted.