the date 13th May 2012 marks the 60 years of Indian parliament and it's been six long decades since the soul of Indian democracy has been in place. I wasn't actually aware about this but the special sessions of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and a Joint session today on a Sunday made me look into it. In both the houses i saw all the big leaders given a chance to say something about how great the Indian Democracy is , how great our Parliament system is or some went on to be skeptic about the things we achieved, or the way our Parliament works. Most interesting or rather funny i found was Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav who started with criticizing the Lokpal as someone who might sit on the head of the MPs and then went on to praising the finance minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee (maybe that has something to do with Mr. Mukherjee being the frontrunner in forthcoming Presidential elections)
But my question as also raised by many is are our MP's professional in their work in the parliament ? How often do we hear or read about the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha sessions being disrupted ? How often we seen different parties shouting and fighting like cats and dogs?
Can't we have our MP's to behave more professionally and discuss and debate things in an orderly manner and bring something constructive out of it in a timely manner. There have been in-numerous hours of session time being wasted by the shear indiscipline and this is one simple thing in hands of our elected leaders to correct.
Also it has almost become a trend for our parliamentarians to act first as a party member and then as the house member, if something is introduced by the government and if an opposition party decides to oppose it then even those members of that opposition party who might actually agree with the proposal or the discussion don't raise their voice to support it. I understand that people in same parties follow the same ideologies but i fail to understand how can they all agree on something all the time. The same goes for the MP's of the ruling parties, it's their responsibility to raise their concerns about government policies and working, even if it is their own parties government.
All I'm calling for is our leaders should be leaders first and then the party-men they are.
But my question as also raised by many is are our MP's professional in their work in the parliament ? How often do we hear or read about the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha sessions being disrupted ? How often we seen different parties shouting and fighting like cats and dogs?
Can't we have our MP's to behave more professionally and discuss and debate things in an orderly manner and bring something constructive out of it in a timely manner. There have been in-numerous hours of session time being wasted by the shear indiscipline and this is one simple thing in hands of our elected leaders to correct.
Also it has almost become a trend for our parliamentarians to act first as a party member and then as the house member, if something is introduced by the government and if an opposition party decides to oppose it then even those members of that opposition party who might actually agree with the proposal or the discussion don't raise their voice to support it. I understand that people in same parties follow the same ideologies but i fail to understand how can they all agree on something all the time. The same goes for the MP's of the ruling parties, it's their responsibility to raise their concerns about government policies and working, even if it is their own parties government.
All I'm calling for is our leaders should be leaders first and then the party-men they are.
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