Today, not even a single session of Parliament meets the number of hours they are required to put in. Rather they prefer to waste as much time as they can at the cost of the masses.
IT IS very easy for our leaders to say that disruption of Parliament proceedings over the last eight days has caused a loss of Rs 61.20 crore to the public exchequer.
According to statistics of PRS Legislative Research, the Lok Sabha members put in only 5.3 useful hours of the scheduled time of 48 hours during the first eight days of the ongoing winter session while Rajya Sabha members performance fared even worse. Their MPs have put only 0.9 productive hours of the scheduled time of 40 hours.This time adjournments of Parliament have made quadruple jump than previous years. Against 30.4 hours lost because of adjournments in the first eight days of this year’s budget session, 41 hours were lost in the two houses in the monsoon session. Figures climbed to a whopping 81 hours of lost work for the same period in the winter session, the data indicates. This time MPs had violated the rules of house by absenting themselves from the house. The only time MPs behaved like honorable members was when US President Barack Obama addressed them.
It is clear that the leaderships of political parties in government and in opposition have given people of India a politics of obstructionism. Parliament has become disruption theatre. In the field for disputation and corruption, it is necessary for the opposition to show itself to be holding the government to task, and for the government to give an account of its plans and actions.