men and women – As far as the Parliament website is concerned, politics in itself is not a career option. But MPs have the freedom to list multiple businesses.

Do you know that Lal Krishna Advani is a journalist, diplomat and trade unionist? That’s more versatility than radio broadcaster, lifeguard and actor Ronald Reagan. Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi make simple claims. He says that he is a social worker.

so does she. Actually, sit comfortably because there are 119 social workers in the 16th Lok Sabha.

Farmers fare better at 153, but businessmen are worse at 82, which provides solace to those who worry that our politics has been taken over by industrialists. Some professions are truly marginalized.

There is a sportsperson and a scientist in the Lok Sabha. Moreover, there is only one strategy advisor – Rahul Gandhi. It is estimated that it took some really special skills to take the country’s most respected party to its lowest ever numbers.

Like America, we also have many supporters. It must mean that we are very competitive in arguing, bargaining.

Although it would be nice to be like China. Many of their political elites, including President Xi Jinping, are engineers. It talks about giving priority to development and infrastructure.

There is a shortage of scientists and engineers as well as artists in the Lok Sabha. One person who might be missing these days is Mamata Banerjee.

She is quite a renaissance woman in terms of the versatility of her artistic talent – ​​from painting, poetry, designing sarees and coming up with logos for her shows. The only art she does not know is the poor, even disgusting art of drawing humorous cartoons. If anyone in Bengal should not touch this profession with a stick – she may go to the extent of imprisoning its practitioners.

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