{"id":9497,"date":"2010-04-13T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/04\/rich-and-criminal-elder-country\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:23:25","slug":"rich-and-criminal-elder-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/04\/rich-and-criminal-elder-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich and Criminal &quot;Elders&quot; of the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Rajya Sabha \u2013 is the House of \u201cElders\u201d (I am adding quotes for a reason!) \u2013 where the members are <strong><u>nominated<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 not elected.  So, it would seem we would have people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who represent the common man<\/li>\n<li>Are distinguished in their own right<\/li>\n<li>Have something useful to offer to the society by way of talent and scholarship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead we now <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/43\/20100411\/836\/tbs-over-50-percent-rajya-sabha-members.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">come to know<\/a> that these are the distinguing characteristics of our \u201cElders\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 50% of the Rajya Sabha members are Crorepatis (multi-millionaires) [98 out of 183] with 65% Congress representatives and 53% of BJP Reps \u2013 while in Lok Sabha this percentage is 58% [315 out of 543 MPs]<\/li>\n<li>17 percent are facing criminal charges according to their <strong>own declarations in their affidavits<\/strong> \u2013 Self Declared Criminals!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A country is defined by who rules it.  It is shameful when those who our representatives nominate are downright criminals!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha &#8211; is the House of &#8220;Elders&#8221; (I am adding quotes for a reason!) &#8211; where the members are <strong><u>nominated<\/u><\/strong> &#8211; not elected.  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