STALLING OF
PARLIAMENT: A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
Bikash
Choudhury
This is the third time on a row, when Indian Parliament was
being disrupted. Irony of the moment was drowned in the ruckus inside the
Parliament. The winter of the winter session of Parliament, soon lost its charm
as the FDI Retail became the bone of contention; once again. Only important
thing that house done in two days was the introduction of council of ministers
by the Prime Minister after the recent reshuffle. Media lost their bread and
butter; analyst type like me lost the job and poor & weak people would lose
substantially as the house can’t take up any legislation that is linked to
their welfare. In a multiparty democracy like ours; there is bound to be
disagreement between Govt. & Opposition on Policy, Programs and their
implementation. As each political party or alliance represents different
section of people, their leadership and Ideologies are as different as ‘chalk
from cheese’ and their leaders & followers are drawn from a different
social milieu; however, all swear by the National Flag and all the Institutions
thereof. The divergence of opinion should be taken as ‘a priori’ an
accepted fact. Then can we hold our Parliament to ransom? Because, this is not
the first time and nor the last time the Govt. and opposition is in a slanging
match with each other; and, further, comic thing is some regional political
group also rushing to the well of the house to disrupt the Parliament and to
press their demands for their constituency. Is this the first sign of effective
Balkanization of this great country with 5000 years old civilization? As this
tool is going to be adopted by others even in the next Lok Sabha thereby
paralyzing the entire Governance system put in place for administrating this
Nation. Net result would be the Country would be pushed into Anarchy;
ironically by our democracy. In the words of Farid Zachariah “you need more
democracy to bring reform in democracy”.
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