Thamarai's Blog

Think of it! Indian MPs disrupting proceedings in parliaments all over the world, turning serious debates into shouting matches, throwing mikes at fellow members with great accuracy. I bet they are capable of introducing an entire range of innovations that will make the British rue the day they conjured up the idea of parliamentary democracy. (Aha! The colonized shall finally have their revenge against the colonizers!)

There are no doubts at all in my mind also about the comparative advantages our MPs have over competitors from other countries.

To begin with the average Indian MP is not any other garden-variety, developing country parliamentarian – but one coming from the world’s largest democracy. That means there are more of them for overseas buyers to choose from. In fact they probably form the world’s largest pool of political manpower - which if exported out of India would help our country make great progress.

Secondly, they are thoroughly familiar with the institution of parliament- having tried to enter it for years through all means possible and once inside – fought tooth and nail to hang on. Our biggest global competitors – China and Pakistan - either don’t have parliaments at all or have pseudo-parliaments run by decree by the military. They just don’t stand a chance against our fellows.

Thirdly the Indian MP is available cheap by any international standards. (Man, are they a bargain or what!) I don’t really know the latest figures but a decade ago when Enron was buying up Indian politicians to back their scandalous power project the going rate was just a few thousand dollars each. In fact, you don't even have to pay them in dollars, Indian rupees will do. (But mind you - no soiled notes please - our MPs have their deep sense of national pride too.)

Fourthly, they are all willing to work on the night shift to take advantage of the time difference between India and developed countries in North America and Europe. Working in the night comes easily to our MPs, many of whom are from backgrounds where darkness was an essential precondition for carrying out their professional tasks.

(This is extact of article written by Mr. Satya Sagar, CPIL)