Debate and disussion must go

The Budget session of Parliament is beginning from tomorrow. Besides the presentation of General Budget for 2010-2011 and Railway Budget, there are lot of important issues to be discussed in Parliament. But as has been experienced in the previous sessions of Parliament, the members deliberately disrupt the parliament proceedings, resulting in the wastage of crores of public money because situation becomes so acrimonious in the House that no business can be transacted leading to the adjournment of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha . No constructive discussion has ever been witnessed in recent days in Parliament. In Parliamentary democracy, Parliament is the highest constitutional body to discuss national and international problems for finding ways to solve them. People send their representatives by electing them to Parliament to discuss their problems in the people’s highest court but here we see that most of the parliamentarians waste parliamentary hours over creating bedlam for trivial issues. The members of political party in opposition appears coming to Parliament with pre-determined motives that they will not allow to run it smoothly. Whether it is Congress or BJP, it matters little for them when they are in opposition. In the heathy democracy, opposition must be constructive while the ruling must be responsive. And only then they could together solve the problems facing the nation.It is good that Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that Government is prepared to discuss all issues in Parliament. The opposition BJP also apprears to be prepared to seek clarifications from government about its sudden change of heart that it announced Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan.The Manmohan Singh government will be grilled on the issue that why it went back from its stated position that it would have no talks with Pakistan untill it reined in terrorism and brought 26/11 Mumbai bomb blast mastermind JuD boss Hafiz Saeed. Though talks with Pakistan must go on, they must be with a rider that it must dismantle the terror infrastructure on its soil. Government will have to clarify in House that what positive action on the part of Pakistan that promted it to announce about talks with Islamabad.