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The rare action has been taken by Chatterjee anguished over repeated disruptions in the House and the immediate provocation was the incidents of April 24 which saw opposition members storming the well shouting slogans without paying heed to the Chair.
Protest in the House that day was prompted by the NDA agitation against price rise which found its echo in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha after the opposition members formed a human chain outside Parliament complex to denounce government's failure to check price spiral.
Members whose cases have been referred to the Privileges Committee for "examination, investigation and report" include several BJP members Shahnawaz Hussain, P S Gadhavi, M A Kharabela Swain, Kishan Singh Sangwan and Kiran Maheswari.
The list also include Chandrakant Khaire, Kalpana Ramesh Narhire (both Shiv Sena), Rattan Singh Ajnala and Sukhdeo Singh Libra (both SAD) as also Tathagatha Satpathy (BJD) and Brajesh Pathak (BSP).
The Speaker referred the matter to the Privileges Committee on Wednesday which had also witnessed some noisy scenes over during the Zero Hour prompting Chatterjee to observe that it has turned into a "torture hour".
At one point, he had told the agitated Samajwadi Party members that they cannot threaten the Chair.
We do not have social order, we are a country where people go for funeral and cause deaths for themselves. We are a country who excercies the right to protest by ceasing someone elses right to movement by calling for hartal or bandh. All we can say is jaise janta waise neta
D/Sir,The behaviour pattern of our MPs are deplorable.The parties they represent are responsible.When the MPs are elected they should undergo a training on code of discipline and how to debate in Parliament and raise issues during Zero hours.In Industry the Union Leaders who can shout the most and are dare devil in behaviour are chosen as TOP Leaders.Political Leaders who can shout Maximum on street demonstrations are given preference for the tickets for Election.That is why after Election they continue behavingin a roudy manner so as to draw the attention of people inside and outside on TV.Media is also reponsible to highlight such incidents instead of denouncing bad behaviour.I would suggest we should allow some good school children to attend Parliament so as to act as detterent to the MPs.A record must be maintained in the Parliament forunruly behaviour and send the same to the political party concerned asking the Party to BLACK LIST such members for future ELections.
The report of Justice Achal Behari Shrivastava Commission inquiring into the violent clashes in the UP Assembly on October 21, 1997, has acquired a special significance in the context of the recent unseemly happenings in the state legislatures all over the country. In Andhra Pradesh, state Governor C. Rangarajan was mobbed and almost mauled by opposition legislators who would not allow him to proceed with the customary Governor's address. Justice Shrivastava had recommended automatic termination of the membership of erring legislators. At a time when law-makers cutting across party lines are behaving as if they are a law unto themselves, nothing short of drastic measures can restore the people's waning confidence in parliamentary democracy. The people look up to their elected representatives as their role models. And if the latter continue to behave outrageously, there is a danger that the people will lose faith not only in their representatives but in parliamentary democracy itself.
That delinquent behaviour by legislators has become the rule rather than the exception was poignantly highlighted in the last session of the 11th Lok Sabha when an exasperated Speaker P.A. Sangma not only threatened to quit if the MPs did not behave but proclaimed that he was ashamed to be the Speaker of such a House. Unfortunately, neither Sangma's articulation of his anguish nor his efforts to draw up a code of ethics for elected representatives with the help of the leaders of various parties yielded any result. The recent happenings in the state assemblies and the Lok and Rajya Sabha demonstrate that the country's political class has become immune to such admonitions and appeals. Desperate remedies have therefore become necessary to tame the country's unruly law-makers. It is against this backdrop that there is an urgent need to publish the Shrivastava Commission report. This will, perhaps, facilitate a debate on the issue of maintaining parliamentary decorum.
the unruly MLAs of any party indulging in the disrupting the proceedings of the Parliament should be removed from the MLA post and imprisoned at least for 2 years and debarred from election for 20 years as these people do not even right to live in the society, leave alone as representatives
A point of correction, these are not MLAs, but MPs, members of parliament. MLAs are in state legislatives.
Somnath is behaving like a dictator. He is supposed to be neutral; but by his behaviour, he has made all of us forget that a Speaker is supposed to be neutral. He is like a Congress man, allowing only whatever suits Congress. Then, where does that leave the main Opposition? A Minister by name TR Baalu openly says in Parliament that he misused his powers to help the owners (his sons), and Maitrayen was aghast about it, and wanted a reply from the PM for the PM sending letters supporting the company of Baalu's sons. What does one expect? A PM who is worried and asks Baalu to resign for misuse of his authority; A Baalu who is ashamed; a Speaker who gives opportunities to the Opposition to expose the scandal. What actually happens? A Somnath who THROWS OUT THE OPPOSITION MLA! India has become a nation of gangsters under Sonia, Manmohan, Baalu, communists and Somnath. SOMNATH SHOULD BE THROWN OUT FIRST..
Come on, don't we know that Indian politicians treat the Parliament as Fish Market. If someone is trying to discipline them, why not support that move.
The speaker, like a judge, has a job to do and the speaker is doing his job. Just as you cannot disobey a judge's ruling, you cannot disobey a speaker's ruling otherwise just as it is contempt of court to disobey a judge's ruling with serious consequences including a term in prison, to disobey a speaker's ruling is also an offence and should be punishable by a term in prison for these unruly MPs and MLAs. And whether you like the ruling of the speaker or not, there can be no excuse for unruly behaviour, disruption and violence by any party in the legislative bodies of the nation whether it is the Lok and Rajya Sabha, State Assemblies or gram and jilla panchayats or any other representative bodies.
who support CPM people due to them India is suffering in the hands of these communists like Somanath.SOmanth himself not behaving like speaker.Congress is currupt and cpm is taking country down.they dont even patriot.they just filling their tresure.now Balu case has emerged and congress favouring him in public.it is a Gunda Raj.they dont have SHARAM.in case of somnath he should behave neutral.but i saw manu times he even did not give time to opposition.and now the congress elected president's case .she took her son with her...and so on...what is the hell going on in India.
The political class appears determined to thwart any attempt to discipline the legislators because of an ill-conceived notion of the privileges of the legislature. When the UP police registered some criminal cases in connection with the bloody clashes in the Assembly after the 1993 elections, the then ruling SP-BSP combine raised a hue and cry over the executive transgressing the jurisdiction of the legislature. No action was taken when legislators resorted to violence in Gujarat during the debate on a confidence motion. Small wonder that the state assemblies in UP, Bihar and Haryana have, over the years, become boxing rings without pricking the conscience of the nation's political class. It is time The Shrivastava Commission's recommendation that the legislators should themselves formulate strict rules to govern their conduct and provide for stringent punishment against those who violate these rules should be implemented.
In a shocking display of unruly behaviour with scant regard for the norms and dignity of the House, the Bharatiya Janata Party legislators clashed with the security personnel inside the Delhi Assembly some time back. The legislators engaged in fisticuffs, used the filthiest of abuses and even slapped, pushed and boxed the security personnel leading to a complete chaos in the Assembly. What was even more shocking was that the entire band of legislators, who showed little regard to the presence of women legislators in the House, was led by the Leader of the Opposition, Jagdish Mukhi. The entire House watched as the BJP legislators pounced on the security personnel and started boxing them with their fists. Some legislators, including Moti Lal Sodhi, climbed on the benches bare feet and openly challenged the others to take him on. The Tughlakabad legislator, Ramesh Bidhuri, was seen using the most abusive language even as the Speaker, Chaudhary Prem Singh, adjourned the House.
About 18 months back, 42 MLAs from Maharashtra, including 7 of the Shiv Sena, went on a 15-day tour to Europe. Before they went on that tour, they told the public that they were going there to study their parliamenary systems. The tour included countries such as Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. First of all this tour was said to have been undertaken at the poor citizens’, the voters’ and taxpayers’ expense. It was to give the Maharashtra legislators, many of whom do not know a single word of English or the language of any other European countries visited, a first hand experience of the development scenario in Europe. Despite such frequent tours at citizens’ expense, MLAs and MPs all over India including Maharashtra have been behaving in the most unruly, undignified and unparliamentary manner in the state and central legislatures and outside for the past 60 years. Indian legislators have become the laughing stock of the world.
These MPs have have reached the LCM of the civilised behaviour. They should be hanged in publlic.
Parade these thugs in front of the public.These rascals are misuseing the nation and its people.The law must ban criminals and lose moral thugs to occupy MLA or MP posts.
We are really sorry to get some morons as our representatives in Parliament. Many of them have criminal backgrounds and they coerce voters to exercise franchise in favour of them..A democracy without scruples is spooky. Such a democracy is likely to commit suicide. Bribe, nepotism and many other vices persist among our MPs. We had murderers in some of our constituencies. It is high time to be careful so that our representatives should be fit to occupy the chair in Parliament. Somnath Chatterji is a gentleman to the core.
DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA...all of them are thugs including the moron Somnath Chaterjee.
Sir, what could the people of India expect from bunch of criminals, who openly loot the nation trough various petrol pump to Katara human smuggling scams?What can anyone execpt from the criminals, who take bribes to ask questions in the parliament?
Why not dismiss this people from LS and cancell their MP seat. Atleast the salary and perks can be saved for this poor country.
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