Cancellation of Question Hour in Parliament: A wasteful exercise

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SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

24 April, 2010

Cancellation of Question Hour in both houses of Parliament has become a usual practice because of stalling of proceedings from opposition benches.

CANCELLATION OFQuestion Hour in both houses of Parliament has become a usual practice because of stalling of proceedings from opposition benches. Valuable man-hours at all levels are spent in different government-offices to prepare replies to questions to be put in Parliament. There can be an easy solution that all the Parliamentarians may unanimously resort to their ‘privileged right’ of disrupting Parliamentary proceedings only after Question Hour.

Second option is to abolish misused immunity available to Parliamentarians by bringing their unlawful and disturbing activities during Parliamentary proceedings under normal law of land. But our Parliamentarians will never clip their own wings by accepting any of the two options.

Only way out is to reschedule Question Hour in post-lunch session of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha so that all disruptions may be tried to be settled out in pre-lunch session. Parliamentarians skipping their oral questions without permission of chair may be barred from asking any question for rest of their Parliamentary term apart from stopping their daily allowance for the day.