Comments on: No longer business as usual for India’s parliament

By: Ragesh

Ragesh — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:01:06 +0000

That is a Public Gimmick by Congress to forego the allowances. To coverup the everseen corruption. A PAC,CAG or even a CBI enquiry will not give light in to this corruption. So the JPC need of opposition is acceptable. It is not a loss to Indian Democracy.

By: RuralIndian

RuralIndian — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:37:10 +0000

Surely, as a responsible elected representative of this country, it is their duty to uphold the honour and respect of their seat, but as proved it is of little concern to them as long as lenghty debates cover up the real issues and save their skin. These people should be fined and absenteeism and creating nuisance in the parliament should not be allowed.It is actually a shame for the biggest democracy of the world that the torch bearers of the same are actually working towrads making it a pseudo democracy

By: pavithrab

pavithrab — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:38:32 +0000

I am sure the salaries are not going to make any difference for them. Their issue is that they did not get any share in corrupted money. In that case, they dont care about either the logjam or impact it creates on the economy or people.
In the past history, JPC was formed for 4 times and neither the reports are used nor recommendations are implemented (to my knowledge) but still they demand for it. It does not much sense. They just want to show us their presence.

By: Anuja.J

Anuja.J — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:23:13 +0000

The amount of time and money wasted amounts to nothing for the government or the MPs. Most of them are anyways too busy debating on news channels every evening. Yup, they should be fined heavily for stalling the House. Maybe the media could serve as an additional source of pocket money for them!

By: ShahofShahs

ShahofShahs — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:57:11 +0000

Of course they ought not to receive any pay when absent or stalling the Parliament. Right now this is what is required. Perchance the Future shall be different where Politicians shall survive on the Government pay. But, as I have said before, let me receive nothing for being a disruption.