Parliamentarians should also divulge relevant private details

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SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

13 April, 2011

A case has been filed against the now-suspended JD(U) MP Mangnilal Mandal for his allegedly hiding the fact of having two wives at the time of filing nomination papers for elections. This kind of information should be divulged by parliamentarians.

THE BIO-data of former BJP Parliamentarian Dharmendra (actor) on Lok Sabha website had mention of only Prakash Deol as his wife, while his ‘additional’ wife Hema Malini (member of Rajya Sabha at that time also) mentioned Dharmendra to be her husband in her bio-data on the Rajya Sabha website!

It should be made compulsory for every Parliamentarian to submit personal details and bio-data as required in a performa, which is necessary for websites of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha - including names of all spouses of a Parliamentarian.

Action may be taken after mandatory period against those MPs who do not submit completed performa, or provide incomplete or incorrect details. All this becomes necessary especially because of shameful incident of taking another lady as his wife on an official trip by the then Lok Sabha member Shri Rajesh Kumar Manjhi.

It is also time that wealth-details of parliamentarians may also be compulsorily included in bio-data of respective Parliamentarian on websites of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.