Just few days after Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu declared in the Assembly that AP is going through financial crunch with Rs 17,500 crore deficit budget, State Government has gifted an iPhone 6 each to 175 MLAs and 40-odd MLCs. This move puts a burden of over Rs 1 crore on the state exchequer and after all its the money paid by taxpayers.
Irrespective of which party stays in power, AP Government made it a habit to gift fancy electronic devices to all the law-makers from laptops to tablets once a year in the name of using technology affectively to resolve the issues of the people.
Sources say, A poll was conducted to figure out what's the choice of smart phone of majority of legislators. Its iPhone 6 which eventually won the battle against other expensive gadgets.
A YSR Congress Leader admitted to have collected the iPhone 6 but clarified his party willn't be taing part the grand dinner hosted by State Government tonight.
Irrespective of which party stays in power, AP Government made it a habit to gift fancy electronic devices to all the law-makers from laptops to tablets once a year in the name of using technology affectively to resolve the issues of the people.
Sources say, A poll was conducted to figure out what's the choice of smart phone of majority of legislators. Its iPhone 6 which eventually won the battle against other expensive gadgets.
A YSR Congress Leader admitted to have collected the iPhone 6 but clarified his party willn't be taing part the grand dinner hosted by State Government tonight.