{"id":315123,"date":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=315123"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:16:30","slug":"opinion-blog-rs-300-pension-for-poor-lakhs-for-mps-an-rti-exposes-indias-brutal-welfare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=315123","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Blog | Rs 300 Pension For Poor, Lakhs For MPs: An RTI Exposes India’s Brutal Welfare System"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question is simple and unavoidable: what kind of democracy accepts that its weakest citizens must live on \u20b9300 a month while its richest representatives debate whether \u20b91.1 lakh is “too little”?<\/p>\n

\u200bThe question is simple and unavoidable: what kind of democracy accepts that its weakest citizens must live on \u20b9300 a month while its richest representatives debate whether \u20b91.1 lakh is “too little”?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question is simple and unavoidable: what kind of democracy accepts that its weakest citizens must live on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":315124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t