Government Spending on Memorials and Ad Campaigns

1. National War Memorial in Delhi – Rs 500 Crores; courtesy BJP
2. Sardar Patel’s memorial – Rs 3000 Crores; Courtesy BJP
3. Shivaji mid-sea memorial – Rs 2000 Crores; courtesy Cong/BJP
4. Ambedkar memorial – Rs 500 Crores; courtesy Cong/BJP
5. Self Promotion Ad-Campaign – Rs 500 Crores; courtesy AAP

If I had these Rs 6500 Crores to throw away; what would I do? I would put it in a bank and at 7% p.a. interest it would give me Rs 38 Crore per Month. With this I would support 38000 poor families at Rs 10000 per month. Or I would bring out 3.15 Lakh Indians from below poverty line by paying them Rs 1200 per month.

But then 3.15 lakh poor people count as only less than 3 lakh votes and that too scattered all over the different constituencies. So perhaps it still makes sense to spend all this money on memorials etc – so that people would see these and remember me? After all, Indians have lived in poverty for over a thousand years, they can live a little more too!

But then with this money I could build some more schools or hospitals in rural areas – and when people would see these ‘memorials’ too – they would remember me?

Or I could fund some rural women run industries like Lijjat Papad – with capital of only Rs 80 – but I am not sure if village women would agree to have a ‘selfie’ with me for social media. I could also repay some foreign debt – but then those foreigners would ‘like’ me less when I visit their nations with a begging bowl (even if purchased from a Tata company).

Hell no, I must spend all ‘my’ money very wisely.