Y. Isaiah, a retired Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise has been elected as an MLA from Kurnool District in Andhra Pradesh under the YSRC party defeating his nearest rival by over 20,000 votes. Isaiah retired in the normal course and did not quit his job to enter politics. While the three IRS MPs whom we covered yesterday are on the Ruling Side, Isaiah will be an opposition MLA in the Andhra Pradesh assembly.

An MLA gets a salary of Rs. 95,000/- plus a lot of perks like free accommodation, travel, telephone, laptop, smartphone, medical facilities, gunmen to follow them wherever they go and ….