TELANGANA BILL INTRODUCED
It was an interesting sight to
see a much relieved Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde declaring “….Telangana
bill has been introduced in the Parliament”. Imagine all this in the back drop
of unprecedented transaction of parliamentary business like spraying of pepper,
wielding of pointed, knife like thing and breaking up the speaker’s mike beside
CQB (Close Quarter Battle) amongst the warring factions owning alliance to the
Republics of Seemandhra and Telangana.
We also witnessed the Parliamentary
Affairs Minister Kamalnath with his stoic wooden expressions saying he will
recommend strict action against the erring MPs. Although it is a moot point, as
to why no preparation was done to deal with such a situation that was highly
explosive and not a secret at all. With immediate suspension of seventeen MPs
it is now clear that they were led to act in a manner that will justify their
expulsion and thus permitting some semblance of discussion on the Telangana
bill before it is passed.
It must have been one of the
rare sights to see the televised images of Ms Meera Kumar, the Honorable
Speaker of the House without her characteristic smile when she pronounced
today’s events as a blot on parliamentary democracy. It is a different matter
that she forgot to pronounce the adjournment of the house before leaving the
house when the pandemonium broke in the house.
Now that the unprecedented has
happened, I recommend some measures to ensure our respected MPs do not raise the
bar higher;
1.
Have the MPs frisked and pass through the metal
detector before entering the Parliament.
2.
Have the seating arrangement in parliament
replaced with chairs having clamps and seatbelts to ensure MPs don’t leave
their place without the speaker releasing the lock herself.
3.
Have the chairs connected with a transformer
that can release necessary electric current as may be necessary to tame down
the excited members. (This suggestion may not find favour with the main stream
political parties but I am hopeful AAP will jump to include it in their
manifesto.
Watching
further developments eagerly.
