Consider a scenario. You are a body that has hired a bunch of people to do a particular job. That job could be cleaning the garbage, making out cheques, serving food, managing finance, anything. The person or persons does not turn up for work. Day after Day. What would you do?<\/p>\n
The answer is obvious. Sack them. After all, why would I pay for someone who is of no use to me? It is perfect business logic. Anyone who has managed or run anything understands this.<\/p>\n
So why is it, that we – the people of India – are so complacent when the people that we sent to Parliament, to represent our interests, don’t turn up for work? Day in and Day out. It has been almost 8 months since the current Government took over. The opposition NDA has been absent from Parliament for most of this time. And the boycott shows no sign of coming to an end. Where is the NDA when the role of the opposition has to be performed? There has been no hue and cry on vital security issues. A BSF officer gets brutalized and murdered in Bangladesh, and no sign of a squawk from the NDA. (mera bharat mahan, jai jawan. but i am sorry that i can’t demand justice on your behalf, because i am busy in an internal fatricidal war and a non issue that no one cares about) The FM imposes a 2% surcharge on cash withdrawals (now thankfully withdrawn) and there is pin drop silence from the NDA. The Patents Act is passed without too much murmuring. And, if i could be bothered to google this i could probably find a whole host of other decisions that the Government has been allowed to take without any debate. Such co-operation between the Government and the Opposition is not too condusive for Democracy. The opposition is meant to do a job, and the NDA is collectively not turning up to do it.<\/p>\n
No business will pay a salary to an employee who doesn’t turn up to work at all. So why are we paying for half our Parliamentarians? In fact why are they still allowed to retain their seat. If they can’t deliver the job that they were elected for – and that means trashing out policy issues in Parliament and protecting our interests- maybe we should replace them with people who can.<\/p>\n
Many Mumbai colleges have a strict 70% attendence requirement from their students. Without this students are not allowed to write exams. Maybe, we need something very similar applied to MP’s. No 70% attendence in Parliament, you lose your seat in 6 months, and the runner up gets the seat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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