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| Parties must allow legislature to function smoothly | | | ET Report
JAMMU, Feb 26: The big fight between the ruling NC and the opposition PDP has reached a new high with star fighters, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti deciding to join the fray.
It was okay for the middle and lower rung activists of the State's two main political parties to engage in mudslinging matches with each other. It becomes quite deplorable when the Chief Minister and Mehbooba Mufti start raising unsubstantiated, frivolous accusations against each other. Politics has already hit such low ebb in J&K State. What could have shocked the conscience and decency of the common man in the State just a few years back does not even raise an eye-brow now. Politicians call each other cheats, frauds, Goebbels and what not and still the collective conscience of the people does not shake.
It was quite impossible to imagine that the Chief Minister or for that matter, the leader of the opposition would show public disdain and disrespect for each other. It was quite impossible to imagine that the Chief Minister or the leader of the opposition would spend hours engaging each other in insinuations and innuendoes. That this has started happening even inside the state assembly is quite sad.
The state assembly is the seat of the state's legislature and the highest house of honour and dignity. If the floor of the house is used for anything other than the welfare of the people who have sent their representatives there, it can at the least be regretted.
The business of the house must go on and it is the duty of everybody including the ruling party and the opposition to ensure that the usual business of the state assembly and the council continues uninterrupted. Dignity, discipline and mutual respect is what the members of the ruling party and the opposition need to have for each other. In the true spirit of democratic traditions, the elected members have to show they truly deserve to represent the voices of the people who sent them to the legislature to represent them.
Politicians have enough time and energy to lambast each other in the field. They need not hog limelight raising voices against each other inside the assembly that is there to carry on some serious business for the welfare of the people.
It is the duty of the Chief Minister and also of the leader of opposition to see to it that members of their parties behave properly to let the assembly function normally. If those leading their parties inside the assembly decide to roll sleeves against each other then who would speak for the people of the State? The voices of the poor and the needy for whose welfare the assembly is convened would be lost in the din. Let everybody rise above party politics and allow the state assembly functions properly and smoothly. |
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