{"id":126166,"date":"2018-01-29T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T09:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=126166"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T09:33:26","slug":"rich-mps-must-forego-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rich-mps-must-forego-salaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich MPs must forego salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BJP MP Varun Gandhi pitched for a campaign for \u201crich parliamentarians\u201d to forego their salaries for the remaining term of the Lok Sabha and a new practice to determine salaries and allowance of elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentarians in India currently have the authority to determine their remunerations. They have been demanding a 100% raise in salaries.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-126167 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Untitled-3-copy-4.jpg\" alt=\"Rich MPs must forego salaries \" width=\"534\" height=\"361\" \/>\u201c..my request to you Madam Speaker, is to initiate a movement aimed at the economically advantaged MPs, to forego our remuneration for the remainder of this 16th Lok Sabha,\u201d two-time MP Gandhi wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreezing our salaries for the rest of the 16th Lok Sabha would also be seen as a welcome step in this direction.\u201dGandhi said India\u2019s inequality gap is widening furt her every day and country\u2019s richest 1%, who now hold 60% of its total wealth, held less than 21% in the late 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP MP Varun Gandhi pitched for a campaign for \u201crich parliamentarians\u201d to forego their salaries for the remaining term of the Lok Sabha and a new practice to determine salaries and allowance of elected representatives. Parliamentarians in India currently have the authority to determine their remunerations. They have been demanding a 100% raise in salaries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[64574,64573,64575,10101,49576,31184,64572],"class_list":["post-126166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp-mp-varun-gandhi","tag-forego","tag-forego-salaries","tag-lok-sabha","tag-parliamentarians","tag-representatives","tag-rich-mps-must-forego-salaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/e2-14.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}