The President Pratibha Patil landed in my home state Kerala yesterday to attend a single official function. Well that is part of her duty as a president, even though the function is something as obscure as the Kerala Woman Lawyers Association meeting or something silly like that. What is galling is that her entourage had 49 (forty nine) people, including her husband (who is a scamster and murder accused), children, grand children and god knows who else. Why the hell should the tax payers, you and me, pay for this extravagance? Is it any wonder that we are taxed to the neck by the government?
Do a democracy like us really need the British legacy left overs of ornamental posts like Presidents and Governors occupying palatial and expensive real estate spending thousands of crores of people's money?
