Politics is the most profitable business

What good is the local government if the newly elected local bodies are not vested with full financial powers for carrying out developmental works at the grass root level? Why are the members of the national and provincial assemblies still being given crores of rupees every year under the garb of developmental works to be done by them in their political constituencies? If these johnnies are to do everything under the sun then why have the local bodies been created? Is it not violation of the supreme court’s directive that they have nothing to do with the developmental activity as their job is to legislate only? Let us admit that politics has become the most lucrative business in the country. The politicians invest a lot of money to enter parliament where they not only recover the money spent by them during elections but make make four time more the money spent by them.
It is a pity that most of the parliamentarians have lost interest in their work. Seldom do they attend proceedings of parliament. Secure in the knowledge that whether or not they attend parliament their fat monthly emoluments and other monetary fringe benefits would automatically be deposited in their bank account, they care a fig about their attendance. Mindful of the fact that the prime minister also shows his face to parliament once in a blue moon they too have made themselves scarce in national assembly. This is certainly not the way a parliamentary democracy is run.
There is a Public Accounts Committee in the National Assembly and there is a fully-fledged Auditor General in the country whose job it is to ensure that nobody embezzles, misappropriates or squanders public money. If these institutions on which a sizable amount out of taxpayer’s money is spent every year are allowed to work without any let or hindrance and if their recommendations are acted upon, hook, line and sinker there would be no need of any NAB or any Accountability office. The tragedy is that their suggestions are not considered worth the paper they are written on. There is no point in keeping them as showpieces.