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So there is this CA chap who runs a very successful CA coaching academy in Maharashtra. You know.. those places which are like factories run by CAs to create more CAs?

That one. Quite a nice business, to be honest.
Anyway, this chap randomly gets a ticket from a regional party to fight elections from Nagpur. And he wins.

The man is taken aback, his wife is even more taken aback. Then it dawns on them, after winning elections, that they know jackshit about what MPs are supposed to do.
Hey, the man is used to giving lectures to like 300 students at a time. MPs do the same thing, right?

He runs a successful business, so it can't be hard, right?

WRONG. Our man Prabhu Srikar learns the hard way, tragically, after he enters Parliament that things are not as easy.
#Parliamental is the story of a CA coaching chap turned Member of Parliament who is struggling to figure out what is going on. It almost seems like everything he says in public feels right to him, but wrong to everyone else.

WTF even.

Get my book!
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Oh and Happy CA day!
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So I was watching @TimesNow for the last hour and what I witnessed can best be described as, "LIVE news spinning". Plain bizarre.

Allow me to explain in a #thread what I witnessed.
It started with them showing a video from West Bengal, full of masked gun-toting men. They announced this video was from Purulia and let the panelists go at Mamata Banerjee & WB Government a bit.

You know, violent state, dictatorial, disturbing visuals etc. etc.
Next up they moved on to PM Modi's Khan Market jibe. Much was being said about how Modiji is NOT elite, so he gets cursed so much by the elite for being a non-Khan-Market-outsider types.

Poonawala brothers had a fight about the elite congress family culture, of course.
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Some important bills will lapse now that the 16th Lok Sabha is done --

- Triple Talaq Bill
- Transgender Bill
- Aadhaar Amendment Bill
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- Citizenship Amendment Bill
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Here are a few crappy things that have gone down in the 16th Lok Sabha, all of which are significant and worth remembering:

- Foreign Funding to political parties was allowed. They also introduced electoral bonds which are like a exclusive currency for Political parties.
- Aadhaar Act was passed as a money bill by Lok Sabha. Rajya Sabha had no say in it and the Finance Ministry just casually bulldozed it through.

- They tried to overrule the SC Judgment with a new bill but (fortunately) the bill has lapsed. So... yay!
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@Memeghnad
When the richest Indian has more wealth than our education, sanitation, water supply and health budget combined, sure we can grow without adding jobs.

The super-rich continue bloating up while the bottom fifty percent folk struggle to increase their wealth.
This is an astonishing fact, but it's true.
Here's one more report from last year. 831 richest Indians own as much wealth as 25% of our entire GDP.

Now this is messed up. Perhaps NITI Aayog could've talked about this but then lol who am I kidding.
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