We are Politicians, we are not in the honour business
You’ve probably come across this statement at least once in your life, ‘How are these politicians so rich? Where do they get this kind of money? Is it an individual problem or a systematic failure? Well, let us look at it through a different spectrum, the politician’s point of view. Grassroot politics in India usually begins at the gram panchayat level, every village has a gram panchayat consisting of a sarpanch and its members. The sarpanch is the head of the village and he receives a salary from the government which is barely enough to cover a week’s meal. Climbing the political ladder from being a sarpanch to possibly Prime Minister of the country is fundamentally flawed with respect to the financial aspect and essentially forces politicians to be corrupt to survive to perish. This is the gist of how these people survive through government work and welfare schemes. For e.g. A proposed construction of a 500m cement road in a village