Should MPs be exploiting the system? Respect must be earned, not forced

Our headline preoccupations are actually surface trifles—oneupmanship over presidential candidates, corruption cases, one lot holding up Sonia Gandhi as goddess while another lot bows to Mamata Banerjee as sovereign, and so on. The reality behind the surface is that our democracy is being vandalised by its very beneficiaries, the MPs and the MLAs. They have become more self-serving than at any time since elections began.

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