A superstar's wife -- a fine actress in her days -- becomes a Rajya Sabha member. A political rival moves the Election Commission, saying that she holds an 'office of profit' as the head of a state film development council. The actress is disqualified.
Her family friend's party takes umbrage and guns for the chief of the party in power, saying she too holds an office of profit. She resigns just as a law is being designed to protect her. All of a sudden, we are force-fed on a diet of office of profit. What, when, who, where, how.
Hey you politicians, give us a break, will you? In a country where farmers are dying even as the number of super-rich leapfrogs, surely there are better ways of spending the taxpayer's money?
What made you angry in 2006? Tell us!
Image: Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan and BJP MP Hema Malini outside Parliament.
Photograph: Ranjan Basu/ Saab Pictures
Also read: Just what is an office of profit?
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