Mps Subsidy

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said he was willing to accept any punishment, including retirement from public life, if there is any evidence that his wife has received or claimed any amount from the government of India.

Railway fare concessions to senior citizens, which were stopped during Covid, have not yet been reinstated despite MPs from both the ruling BJP and main opposition Congress batting for it, and a Parliament committee recommending it.

BJP MP Varun Gandhi today questioned the government's decision to scrap the concession given to senior citizens on train tickets and asked why this relief to the elderly is seen as a "burden" when MPs continue to get subsidy on rail fare.

While MPs enjoyed crores in free and discounted train tickets, the Indian Railways has been refusing concessions to senior citizens citing the need to cut its subsidy bills, documents accessed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act show.

Food served in Parliament canteens for MPs and others will become more expensive as a subsidy given for it has been stopped, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said today.

Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to give up the decades-old subsidy on food sold at the parliament canteen, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced on Thursday. The decision, however, seemed exactly similar to one announced in 2016.

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana leader Raju Shetti warned on Saturday that milk supply to Mumbai would be stopped from July 16 if the Maharashtra government failed to provide subsidy to dairy farmers.

An online petition signed by 78,000 people has appealed to parliamentarians to end the canteen subsidy.

MPs alone do not eat in Parliament canteen, said Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

Special privileges that have become so ubiquitous range from substantive to the frivolous. Politicians and bureaucrats do not have to stand in line for anything, live in heritage buildings, move around in cars with red beacons.

A BJD leader and Lok Sabha MP demanded removal of food subsidy extended to the Parliamentarians in Parliament canteen.

Under fire for gorging on cheap food at the Parliament House canteen, many lawmakers feel the subsidy being given can be done away with as it was only creating a "bad press".

Parliament canteens serving to Members of Parliament got a total subsidy of Rs 60.7 crore during last five years with items like 'puri sabji' being sold at 88 per cent subsidised rates, an RTI reply shows.

"Give it up," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a big rally in Bengaluru today, urging "MPs, MLAs, ministers, IAS and IPS officers, professors and professionals" to give up subsidy on cooking gas to benefit the poor.

Politicians cutting across party lines may have slammed the Planning Commission for its latest figures on the poverty line but many of their ilk think that it is time they looked within.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said he was willing to accept any punishment, including retirement from public life, if there is any evidence that his wife has received or claimed any amount from the government of India.

Railway fare concessions to senior citizens, which were stopped during Covid, have not yet been reinstated despite MPs from both the ruling BJP and main opposition Congress batting for it, and a Parliament committee recommending it.

BJP MP Varun Gandhi today questioned the government's decision to scrap the concession given to senior citizens on train tickets and asked why this relief to the elderly is seen as a "burden" when MPs continue to get subsidy on rail fare.

While MPs enjoyed crores in free and discounted train tickets, the Indian Railways has been refusing concessions to senior citizens citing the need to cut its subsidy bills, documents accessed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act show.

Food served in Parliament canteens for MPs and others will become more expensive as a subsidy given for it has been stopped, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said today.

Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to give up the decades-old subsidy on food sold at the parliament canteen, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced on Thursday. The decision, however, seemed exactly similar to one announced in 2016.

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana leader Raju Shetti warned on Saturday that milk supply to Mumbai would be stopped from July 16 if the Maharashtra government failed to provide subsidy to dairy farmers.

An online petition signed by 78,000 people has appealed to parliamentarians to end the canteen subsidy.

MPs alone do not eat in Parliament canteen, said Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

Special privileges that have become so ubiquitous range from substantive to the frivolous. Politicians and bureaucrats do not have to stand in line for anything, live in heritage buildings, move around in cars with red beacons.

A BJD leader and Lok Sabha MP demanded removal of food subsidy extended to the Parliamentarians in Parliament canteen.

Under fire for gorging on cheap food at the Parliament House canteen, many lawmakers feel the subsidy being given can be done away with as it was only creating a "bad press".

Parliament canteens serving to Members of Parliament got a total subsidy of Rs 60.7 crore during last five years with items like 'puri sabji' being sold at 88 per cent subsidised rates, an RTI reply shows.

"Give it up," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a big rally in Bengaluru today, urging "MPs, MLAs, ministers, IAS and IPS officers, professors and professionals" to give up subsidy on cooking gas to benefit the poor.

Politicians cutting across party lines may have slammed the Planning Commission for its latest figures on the poverty line but many of their ilk think that it is time they looked within.