With BJP’s disruption of Parliament clearly weighing heavily on its mind, Congress on Sunday cautioned that politicians were “writing their own obituaries prematurely” by making legislative institutions dysfunctional.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari was reacting to President Pranab Mukherjee urging political parties to work out a mechanism to resolve differences to ensure that the Parliament can function.
“The growing irrelevence of parliamentary and legislative institutions is subversive of the Indian democratic experiment. That day is not too far when people would seriously question representative democracy as it is constituted. By making legislative institutions dysfunctional, politicians are writing their own obituaries prematurely,” Mr. Tewari told PTI.
His remarks came close on the heels of the conclusion of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, which witnessed two-third of its proceedings being washed out following disruption by the BJP over the coal block allocation issue.
The BJP demanded resignation of the Prime Minister in the wake of the CAG report, which has spoken of undue benefit to private players to the tune of Rs 1.86 lakh crore.
Keywords: Coal blocks allocation, coalgate, coal scam, Parliament session, coal block cancellation, Parliament Monsoon session
Oh well ..no problem ! When did we ever have this thing called DEMOCRACY till the elites of India, viz., Jawaharlal Nehru and Mr. M. K. Gandhi learned the hard lessons, starting with their learning the ABC of Parliamentary Democracy in England , and litearlly ABC of the English language to spell and understand its meaning. If democracy, that is Indian democracy, is dumped, we still have all the little rajahs, chieftains and Maharajas (and their sons and daughters) waiting in the sideline to reinstate the monarchies (or oligarchies in the case of India) to run this land, where the Ganges and Yamuna etc have flown through the centuries and witnessed many a wicked king, human monster or despot rule and suck the blood of the hapless people of the subcontinent.
Yes, Indian democracy named ship is sinking at the middle of the occean because of heavy weight congressies. 100000 ordinary people can survive if we throw out one congress leader from parliament.
A non functioning parliament is better than a corrupt prime minister and his government.what india will loose if manmohan singh resigns.they told after indira it is end of country.but nothing happend.so is after this prime minister too.let him step down and let the parliament function
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