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Can we eliminate the politicians from India? I do not know who they are claiming to help. They claim to speak for the common man, but I am yet to see affirmative action from anyone which benefits the common man.

Take the recent Bharat Bandh for instance. A conservative estimate from FICCI is that the cost to the nation may have been close to Rs 130 Billion. Thats for ONE day.

Forget MNCs and IT companies. They are not for the so called “common man”. Let us talk about this common man for a bit, whose cause these politicians seem to espouse to vehemently and forcefully.

The common man in India works in small companies, in firms, in shops and showrooms, in warehouses, factories. He is the rickshaw driver, the auto driver, taxi driver, the small variety store owner, the helper in the grocery store, the truck driver, the class four employee in goverment jobs. The grass roots and below poverty line daily wage earner is the one whose case is always cited by the parties.

All of these people were inconvenienced by the bandh. The decision of the fuel price hike is not repealed, so basically we lost Rs 130 billion for nothing but a show of how a small number of politicians can hold a nation to ransom.

We need intellectuals in government, who are really interested in resolving issues. Instead, we get showboats and selfish demons who are only interested in doing nothing and ensuring the rest of the nation also does nothing. I call them economic terrorists.

We do not need these people to govern our country. Can we please get rid of them?