Develop tolerance

The offensive remarks made by Baba Ramdev against Members of Parliament may be unconstitutional and uncultured but the way MPs across party line expressed their reactions to them can not be justified in healthy democracy. Members of Parliament have expressed anger over offensive remarks made by yoga guru Baba Ramdev. Samajwadi Party MP has already moved a privilege motion seeking action against people making derogatory remarks against MPs. The MP has initiated the motion without naming Baba Ramdev, who had called MPs "murderers and robbers" at a public function in Durg. In parliamentary system, the people elect members of Parliament and because of that they have every right to criticize them. MPs have been sent to parliament to raise people’s problems before the government. Instead of carrying out their duties towards the people, MPs generally display their vocal cord and muscle power in breaking chairs, microphone phone for disrupting the important parliamentary business. They do these things only to attract media attention to become the topic of talks among the people about their misbehaviours inside the House. Parliament is the highest constitutional institution and temple of democracy. It is an August body and its dignity can not be lowered. At the same time, if the affidavit produced at the time of filing nomination papers for the election of Lok Sabha is anything to go by, 162 MPs are allegedly involved in one kind of heinous crime or the other. It is the political party that is mostly responsible for bringing the persons of criminal background into Parliament. Political parties observe the chance of Winn ability of candidate while distributing the party ticket. Now it is the responsibility of social activists, spiritual leaders and others to launch a campaign to awaken the people to cast their votes in favour of only those candidates who are honest, wise and known for their social background irrespective of their belief in party ideology. Only then we could form the Parliament of clean and honest MPs. In democracy, the people are free to criticize the politicians. Criticism is a healthy system in democracy. What is wrong if either Arvind Kejriwal or Baba Ramdev say that 162 MPs are facing trial for their crime? The charge against them may be politically motivated but allegations are already there on record against the MPs. Social activists and spiritual leaders are free to criticize the members of Parliament. They should also not go beyond the constitutional norms and behaviour. The words rapists, looters, murderers and thieves are used to describe the elected members of Parliament by social activists, spiritual leaders and others. Some members of Parliament are facing criminal charge but it does not allow them to tar all of them with the same brush.