Tomorrow, another Parliament session is
coming to an end - with a beginning that hardly had begun when the disruptions
started.
In fact, the trend (or the prevailing
culture/political sentiments) was right on the job from the last session. The
political culture of disruption, in fact, has been consistently extended from
one Parliament session to the next most of the times in the recent political
history.
It is said the recent Budget Session was
the most productive one recently (in fact, in the last 15 years) but even it
was replete with anti-Parliamentary stands resulting in a chaos/ruckus that has
become synonymous with the work culture of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
A work culture where every work is done
except the work for which the Parliament sessions are held thrice annually - to
assess how the country is being run and to assess how it can be run - because
the Union Government is the supreme administrative arch of the nation.
A work culture that has become so one with
the politics of disruption that the disturbing trend now runs as its routine
undercurrent.
A work culture that now prominently gives
rise to countless debates on 'if the Parliament will be able to work or
transact some of its businesses on a coming tomorrow' - a 'tomorrow' that is
becoming more and more distant now.
And the prime people manning the
Parliament, our politicians, the select few whom we elect (or who are elected),
are not at all worried about it.
When it comes to disruptions, every
political outfit, based on its position (sitting arrangement in the
Parliament), is to share the blame, or in the prevailing political language of
the day - the way political parties like to describe their disruptive stands - is
to share the credit of 'promoting democratic values'.
They don't care if the Indian Parliament is
now known as a disrupted, fractured platform that oozes out a feeling that
nothing sense can be discussed there. They don't care if verbal attacks on
political rivals by them leave us in bad taste - something that was most
intense today.
They don't care if every washed out
Parliament session, as this one is going out to be, wastes hundreds of crores
of taxpayers' money directly - and causes massive losses indirectly due to stalled
policy decisions - like the delayed land reforms - or possibly (now) delayed
Goods and Services Tax Bill (GST Bill) that could see the markets 'fall by
2-3%' as the analysts say.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
