Need for reasoned debate in Parliament

Parliamentary debate and discussion must be constructive, development-oriented and people-centric. Whether it is opposition or ruling leaders, all must take care of the sanctity of Parliament. It must not be made a fish market. Unnecessary disruption, walk-outs, and chaos result in the loss of crores of public money. People send their representatives to Parliament for resolving their problems through debate and discussion and take the country forward. But what their representatives do in the Parliament is only making noises to attract the attention of the national media. Most of the precious parliamentary time is wasted in every session over the issue of no significance. Even the top leaders, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot speak without noisy protests. Noisy protests have become the way of parliamentary behaviour of its MPs. Now it is rarely heard a reasoned debate and discussion on the national or international topic in Parliament. The speech of every leader irrespective of his or political affiliation aims directly or indirectly at scoring political points. It is nothing to do with the development of the nation or the burning issue of the day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a blistering attack on Congress party while speaking on the Motion of Thanks to President Address to the joint session of Parliament. The opposition benches made noisy protests all through the speech of PM Modi in Lok Sabha. PM Modi also spoke in Rajya Sabha. He said while speaking on the issue of Addhar that it was for the first time in 1998 that one of the tallest leaders of BJP LK Advani had talked of a national identity card, Congress MP Renuka Chaudhury burst into laughter at his utterance. PM Made sarcastic remarks against her by pleading with the Chairman of Rajya Sabha Vice President Venkaih Naidu not to say anything to her because it is for the first time after the Ramayan Serial he heard such type of laughter. This remark of PM against Renuka Chaudhury was taken seriously by the Congress party. Congress says that comparing Renuka Chaudhury to Ravan's sister Supernekha by the BJP reflects its anti-womanhood mindset. Neither the Congress party nor the BJP should involve themselves in superfluous issues which have nothing to do with the day to day interest of the common people. This is not the first time that parliamentary time is wasted. It is the new development in recent times that business of the Parliament is hampered as a way of opposition. Today, Congress is in opposition and BJP is in government. Tomorrow, Congress may be in power and BJP in opposition, but the nature of their functioning will not change. Whichever political party is in opposition opposes the ruling benches in Parliament only for the sake of opposition. They oppose the ruling party without any sum and substance. This is a very bad trend and practice set in our political system. It hurts the interest of the people as well as the nation. Neither the Congress nor the BJP is perfect. Both have deficiencies and both lack in delivering honestly. As long as the people of this country remain uneducated and unaware, the political parties would continue to exploit them by giving new slogan in every Lok Sabha election.