Finally deciding to enter politics, hero Upendra recently announced the incarnation of his political party Karnataka Pragnyavanta Janata Paksha. Since then, he’s getting many calls from people, twitterati and others to take action on some subjects.
Amongst all the questions, plea and requests bounced to him, one particular WhatsApp share has fascinated Upendra, says his associates. That post actually asks why our Hon’ble Members of Parliament are given 15000 rupees as telephone allowance.
The post asks: At a time when people are getting unlimited data and phone calls for 3 months at a rate of around 300 to 400 rupees, isn’t this amount big? It is damn big when we realize that there are 245 Rajyasabha MPs and 545 Loksabha MPs, the cost is coming to 1.18 crore/month.
Actually, these figures and estimates are sounding fake, because no MP is given money directly for telephone usage. They are 50,000 free local calls for each MP on each SIM and they can use three numbers, which comes to 1,50,000 local calls in a year for them. Now that BSNL is also offering 400 rupees for 3 months unlimited package, the whole of ‘telephone allowance’ might sound fake.
While Upendra is feeling happy for his fans asking such a question, it is to be seen if he realized it is a fake question.
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