With the Monsoon session of Parliament coming to an end after most of its sittings washed out over the coal issue, a concerned Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday said some “forms of dissent” were leaving her disturbed.
“Parliament has not functioned and it has made me very sad. In our democracy, sometimes there are forms of dissent which disturb us,” she said soon after the Monsoon session was adjourned sine die.
At the same time, Ms. Kumar hoped that a solution to the logjam between the UPA and the NDA would be found soon and Parliament will function smoothly in the Winter session.
“...we are all staunch believers in the functioning democracy of our country and I am very hopeful that a solution will be found, situation will normalise and Parliament will function,” the Speaker said.
The Monsoon session, the second-worst since the 2009 general elections, functioned only six out of 19 days. It was paralysed for remaining period due to the stand-off between the government and the BJP over the controversial coal block allocation issue with the main opposition party remaining unrelenting on its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Prior to this, the Winter session of 2010 witnessed a complete washout due to the Opposition demand for setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) into the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
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The speaker could have given a stern warning to the elements disrupting the parliament. Instead of shouting and stopping, the NDA could have debated in the floor of the house with all the materials they claimed to have. The speaker could have called the leader of the opposition and warned her of consequences and atleast speaker could have expelled one or two elements. Then things would have been better.Or she could have called the leader of the house to recommend for the dissolution of the house totally and not to make mockery of the system???
There is no point in approaching such political parties who do not believe in democratic process of discussion, they believe only one sided politics of pushing their agenda & point at the cost of people, in this case BJP is to blame as they failed to cooperate in in participation, at the same time they are equally at fault at state level.
Respected Mrs. Meira Kumar, Honorable Speaker of the Lok Sabha:
As a tax paying citizen of this country I have a question for you. Is
this the best you can do? Express sadness after the damage has been
done. Ordinary citizens of this country are not aware of fine legal
details of your powers in running the house. May be you can use the
columns of esteemed paper 'The Hindu' to inform the people of this
country what shackles you. Could you not have held your ground and
asked the disrupting members either to sit down or go out. Why could
you not name the defiant members so that at least their names went in
the history for having defied you.
I am of course not expecting you to go on a day's fast in the Gandhian
tradition praying to God to give some sense to the members of the
Parliament. My family and I will do that.
when the government is not ready to accept the irregularities in coal allocation what is the use of parliament which can not nail the culprits who had the free hands in corruption. we need not regret ourselves for not functioning the parliament as it witnessed that culprits of heinous crime is enjoying the tax payer money by all means.As long as if there is no effective method of punishing the criminals sitting in parliament why to run it better dissolve the parliament atleast we can save the tax payers money to the government exchequer.no more parliament should function until the right action is taken against the culprit.We can not afford to lose our taxpaying money in the hands of robbers and burglars.Time will answer
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