Let Parliament run in people's interest

Stalling Parliament has become a fashion among politicians of both ruling and opposition parties. The fracas between the MPs' of two sides over the issues with which the common people have nothing to do with cause the loss of precious time of Parliament. Crores of rupees are spent on the running of the Parliament for a day. Stalling Parliament is also not a new development. It has been going on for more than 20 years on regular basis. It is frequently stalled. It shows the degeneration in the behavior of our politicians irrespective of their affiliation with the party. Both the ruling and the opposition behave in the same way when the question of creating bedlam in Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha arises. It is nothing but the mockery of democracy. Parliament is the highest platform in democracy. By stopping it from transacting its business, the highest democratic institution is weakened. Today Congress is in Opposition and the BJP is in power. But there has been no change in their goal post. Congress is doing the same as the BJP did while it was in opposition. Both have a responsibility to run the Parliament. Undoubtedly, the treasury bench has greater responsibility to run Parliament. After the Parliament reopened on March 5, 2018, not even a single day it has transacted its business smoothly. Even the Finance Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha without debate and discussion on the basis of the brute majority of the BJP-led NDA Govt. at the Centre. Parliamentary democracy in the country has come under the threat. The trend that emerges in Parliament is that both the ruling and opposition parties vied for scoring political points over the rival political class. Neither the ruling nor the opposition MPs ever tried to run the Parliament. Parliament is the centre of discussing people's problems by their representatives there. But in reality, their representatives in assembly and Parliament are only interested in catching the cameras of Television crew. They have no concern for the problem of the people in their constituencies. It is now 15 days that Parliament has not transacted any business in the real sense of the term. Belittling the importance of Parliament, even the Narendra Modi govt. got the Finance Bill passed on the basis of its brute majority in the Lower House. It is perhaps for the first time in India's parliamentary democracy that Finance Bill was passed without any debate and discussion. It has also been experienced in the last few years that Parliament, which is the biggest platform of resolving people's problem in democracy, is used for personal and political aggrandizement. Both the ruling and the Opposition are equally responsible for this sorry state of affairs. As the political scenario of the ruling BJP at the Centre is not very good, its own ally TDP of Andhra Pradesh quit NDA and initiated Motion of Confidence against Narendra Modi govt. TDP quit NDA because of the denial of Special category status to Andhra Pradesh and the other one which is one of its oldest allies Shiv Sena has announced that it would fight Lok Sabha elections on its own. So everything is not well about the ruling BJP. The common people of India are nothing to do with Congress and BJP. They only want Parliament to run smoothly.