There have been continuous uproars in both the Houses of Parliament since the first day till today, Wednesday. The proceedings of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha are being adjourned repeatedly but no significant work has been done so far during this session. On the first day of the monsoon session itself, the issues of Pahalgam attack and revision of voter lists in Bihar dominated the Parliament.
The opposition has made its preparations well for the monsoon session that began on July 21 and will continue till August 21. A meeting of the ‘India Alliance’ was held before the session began to formulate a strategy to surround the government in this session. Although the Aam Aadmi Party did not participate in it, because the ‘AAP’ leaders have clearly said that the ‘India Alliance’ was limited to the Lok Sabha only, the questions of the other opposition parties including the Congress are also the same questions of the ‘AAP’. Incidentally, the meeting of the India Bloc was held to decide which issues will be raised prominently in the monsoon session, in which leaders of 24 parties participated. The India Alliance meeting was held after a year, but leaders of 24 parties participated in it, so one thing has become clear that the opposition is still united. The exit or resentment of some parties has not affected the unity of the opposition, nor has it reduced its commitment to save democracy and the Constitution. During the ongoing session of Parliament, the opposition has shown unity among itself and has surrounded the government on every issue.
It was decided in the meeting held by the opposition before the monsoon session of Parliament that the government will be surrounded in Parliament on issues like Pahalgam attack, Operation Sandhur, Trump’s 24 statements, SIR exercise in Bihar, SC, ST. Atrocities on, demarcation, Ahmedabad plane crash. Apart from this, in this meeting, it was decided to raise issues like unemployment, inflation, atrocities on women, atrocities on farmers in both the houses of Parliament by the opposition. In fact, these issues have become permanent issues for the last 11 years, which are raised in every session of Parliament, but no solution is found for them.
Crores of rupees are spent during a day’s proceedings of Parliament. According to reports, Rs 2,50,000 is spent every minute in Parliament. If seen in this way, it is estimated that about Rs 1.5 crore is spent per hour. On the other hand, if the proceedings of Parliament continue for the whole day, the expenditure can reach Rs 9 crore. However, no official figure has been given for this expenditure. The daily allowance of the MPs who come for this proceedings is also paid from this expenditure. To bring this entire process to the public, live telecast and IT system work, for which crores of rupees are spent daily. In addition, if the Parliament is dissolved due to uproar, it causes a big loss.
The government collects the expenses incurred on the functioning of the Parliament in the form of taxes from the common people. Apart from this, the representatives of the Lok Sabha are elected and sent by the common people themselves, due to which the common people expect that their people’s representatives will talk about their rights during the session of the Parliament, but it has been seen that in every session of the Parliament, the issues of the common people are discussed less and every representative or party tries more to make their politics shine. The common people also expect the government to bring some such bill during the monsoon session, which will be for the welfare of the common people. Often, many bills are brought by the government, which are sometimes debated, but sometimes due to the boycott of the opposition, these bills are passed without debate as the government has a majority in the Parliament. Instead of constructive debate on important issues in the Parliament, there is often only noise. The issues and concerns of the common people are being affected by the uproar and chaos in Parliament. Given the political climate in the country and the performance of the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament so far, it is expected that the monsoon session of Parliament will remain turbulent in the coming days as well.
