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At 1100 hours opposition enters and start shouting 'nahi chalegi nahi chalegi' (will not function, will not function); 'Manmohan singh gaddi choro' (Manmohan Singh, leave the chair). The helpless speaker pleads to settle down so that we can continue the session without any interruption, but atlast he suspends the session.
While congress minister P. Chidambaram says that, "We are disappointed that opposition, mainly B.J.P., is not willing to discuss the matter on the floor of the house". But everyone knows who is loosing in all these drama of politicians. It is citizens of India who are losing. Apart from the money spent on one day of functioning of parliament which comes from tax payers of this country, important pending bills are hitting citizens most.
In 2011, the parliament worked for 73 days and over 800hours. Around 30% of the time was lost due to disruptions, and a total of 54 bills were listed to pass into law after consideration. But only 28 were actually passed and some 97 bills remained as it is when parliament was shut.
This year things started well, when 12 bills were passed and 17 were introduced, but at the end of the session, over 100 bills were left pending. This monsoon session which started from August and will end in September, from 20 sittings not a single day went worth. There has been a deadlock between the two parties currently going on. There are some 29 pending bills which include laws to prevent money laundering, checking corruption, protecting women from sexual harassment at workplace, regulating higher education, amendment of laws in relation to banking and marriage, whistle blower protection etc., left for consideration and passing into laws. But the way parliament is functioning, faintest of chances are there for letting these bills see through in parliament.
This problem actually lies in the demographic change of Indian politics which started taking place during 90's. As many as 3,200 bills were passed before 1990 but when politics got fragmented which gave birth to many regional parties ruling different states. They started playing major role in deciding whose government will rule the country, this is where problem started. The ruling party was unable to take decisions on its own, whether good or bad. Also interestingly, the number of days parliament sits has declined about a third since 1950's. Why? Don’t know the exact reason, may be politicians of today's era thinks they are more efficient and take less time than old day's politicians, to do the same work, or perhaps they do not want to take their work seriously.
Inspite of all these, Indian MPs (Member of Parliament) earn 68 times the country's average income, after giving themselves a threefold hike in salary making it a figure of 1.3 lakh including allowances and everything comes tax free. How within minutes the bill to hike their salary was passed everybody knows. This salary increment burdened government by an additional Rs 103.8 crore every year. This income is other than their personal business and benefits they enjoy. Other than this, the average assets of 304 MPs who contested in 2004 and then again re-contested in 2009 grew 300%.
To attend parliament MPs get daily allowance of Rs 2000, which should be exempted if they do not attend the parliament or disrupt the functioning of parliament, as a punishment.
Indian politics is going through its worst phase, if we take its entire history despite being more transparent than earlier. A vibrant opposition must bring the government on mat through discussions on the floor of the house rather than bringing the parliament to halt. This has been one of the most irresponsible strategy being adopted by opposition in recent times. This shows how reluctant our politicians are towards their duty. Currently whatever is going on is being defended by the opposition with statements like, 'we are entitled to parliamentary obstructionism as part of our parliamentary tactic'. Are they not entitled to work for well-being of citizens of their country? The fact is they do not care. They do not care about economic decisions which are required to boost it, they do not care about safety of citizens of India, they do not care about better education of children, they do not care about corruption, they do not care about anything. All they do care is about their business.
We pray that someday these politicians may leave their political grandstanding behind and will be back to work.
At 1100 hours opposition enters and start shouting 'nahi chalegi nahi chalegi' (will not function, will not function); 'Manmohan singh gaddi choro' (Manmohan Singh, leave the chair). The helpless speaker pleads to settle down so that we can continue the session without any interruption, but atlast he suspends the session.
[Monsoon session deadlock]
This is what the current scenes are in the
Indian parliament this monsoon session. Opposition setting it in
straight words that they will not let this parliament session to
continue unless Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resigns. Their demand is
in relation to the latest Coal scam which came under light, when the
latest CAG report came out which shown the allocation of coal blocks to
private players without auctioning. Due to which nation has suffered an
estimated loss off 1.86 trillion rupees ($34 billion). Major opposition
alleging Prime Minister’s direct involvement during the period when
coal blocks were allocated. On the other hand, ruling party wants to
debate on the issue, which opposition does not want. This is not one of
rare occasions when parliament was stalled by the opposition parties.
Not much time before, in a similar corruption case of 2 years ago, when
government had been accused in a 2G case by not auctioning wireless
phone licenses in 2008; parliament was stalled by the opposition
demanding resignation of one of its minister P. Chidambaram, alleging
his direct involvement in the whole corruption case.
Looks like, it has been a habit of our politicians of creating scenes
in parliament and not allowing parliament to work smoothly. Both,
ruling party and opposition blame each other for not allowing parliament
to work. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar says, "Congress’s appeal
for a debate is a sham as they have never respected commitments made in
parliamentary debates."While congress minister P. Chidambaram says that, "We are disappointed that opposition, mainly B.J.P., is not willing to discuss the matter on the floor of the house". But everyone knows who is loosing in all these drama of politicians. It is citizens of India who are losing. Apart from the money spent on one day of functioning of parliament which comes from tax payers of this country, important pending bills are hitting citizens most.
In 2011, the parliament worked for 73 days and over 800hours. Around 30% of the time was lost due to disruptions, and a total of 54 bills were listed to pass into law after consideration. But only 28 were actually passed and some 97 bills remained as it is when parliament was shut.
This year things started well, when 12 bills were passed and 17 were introduced, but at the end of the session, over 100 bills were left pending. This monsoon session which started from August and will end in September, from 20 sittings not a single day went worth. There has been a deadlock between the two parties currently going on. There are some 29 pending bills which include laws to prevent money laundering, checking corruption, protecting women from sexual harassment at workplace, regulating higher education, amendment of laws in relation to banking and marriage, whistle blower protection etc., left for consideration and passing into laws. But the way parliament is functioning, faintest of chances are there for letting these bills see through in parliament.
This problem actually lies in the demographic change of Indian politics which started taking place during 90's. As many as 3,200 bills were passed before 1990 but when politics got fragmented which gave birth to many regional parties ruling different states. They started playing major role in deciding whose government will rule the country, this is where problem started. The ruling party was unable to take decisions on its own, whether good or bad. Also interestingly, the number of days parliament sits has declined about a third since 1950's. Why? Don’t know the exact reason, may be politicians of today's era thinks they are more efficient and take less time than old day's politicians, to do the same work, or perhaps they do not want to take their work seriously.
Inspite of all these, Indian MPs (Member of Parliament) earn 68 times the country's average income, after giving themselves a threefold hike in salary making it a figure of 1.3 lakh including allowances and everything comes tax free. How within minutes the bill to hike their salary was passed everybody knows. This salary increment burdened government by an additional Rs 103.8 crore every year. This income is other than their personal business and benefits they enjoy. Other than this, the average assets of 304 MPs who contested in 2004 and then again re-contested in 2009 grew 300%.
To attend parliament MPs get daily allowance of Rs 2000, which should be exempted if they do not attend the parliament or disrupt the functioning of parliament, as a punishment.
Indian politics is going through its worst phase, if we take its entire history despite being more transparent than earlier. A vibrant opposition must bring the government on mat through discussions on the floor of the house rather than bringing the parliament to halt. This has been one of the most irresponsible strategy being adopted by opposition in recent times. This shows how reluctant our politicians are towards their duty. Currently whatever is going on is being defended by the opposition with statements like, 'we are entitled to parliamentary obstructionism as part of our parliamentary tactic'. Are they not entitled to work for well-being of citizens of their country? The fact is they do not care. They do not care about economic decisions which are required to boost it, they do not care about safety of citizens of India, they do not care about better education of children, they do not care about corruption, they do not care about anything. All they do care is about their business.
We pray that someday these politicians may leave their political grandstanding behind and will be back to work.
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