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Letters: Dismantle VIP fortress

They believe they are not subject to the rules and regulations ordinary citizens stoically follow

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With reference to the editorial, “Air India-Sena MP row: Govt maintaining official no-fly list is a bad idea” (March 30), there is something wrong with our elected representatives: They believe they are not subject to the rules and regulations ordinary citizens stoically follow.

Being a government-controlled organisation one can understand Air India’s diffidence in drawing up a no-fly list. Other airlines are not constrained to do so.

Parliamentarians are elected representatives; they are meant to serve the public, not berate or lord over them. The space, culture and perverse incentives such VIPs create need to be shrunk, not