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Of MPs, fudged expenses and what India spends on them
The difference with India is in detail. We wax indignant over sensational exposures involving Sukh Ram or Ottavio Quattrocchi but ignore abuses that have become the norm and exert a direct and damaging impact on everyday life.
The nearly Rs 855 crore (Rs 8.55 billion) that our MPs cost the country is only the official expenditure, leaving out plums and pickings like cylinder gas and telephone connections, subletting official quarters, charging fees for recommendations (for college admission, jobs or subsidised accommodation), and pocketing payment for asking questions in Parliament. Powered by 
Image: Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi (L) is offered a drink by Italian consul Claudio Miscia duri
Photograph: Blas Martinez/Reuters
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