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Friday, December 30, 2011

Re: [India_Vision_2020] Parliament shames India

India Vision 202012:48 PM No comments

Dear All and Sri Srinivasan

Greetings fro Punch

We must compliment Sri Srinivasan for bringing us together against such a disorderly group of members of the Parliament, the Rajya Sabha in particular

It was as the Chairman said the mutual mudslinging - with the sole aim of not wanting to have a strong lokpal.

One thing, that we don't understand - what was Mr Bansal trying to say against prolonging the discussion beyond 00.00 hrs; why the reference to the Presidential Address in the new year, when they had TWO full days before the dawn of the New Year.

Again, what prevented the Govt from stopping to lobby amongst the different parties and going to the President for permission to go beyond 00.00 hrs? Will the Heavens come down if the Discussion is extended by a day? Maybe, the Govt thought it not fit to disturb the Madam President in the dead of night!!!!!!!!!!!

Again, why should the Govt be given time to study the amendments separately when the bill, once introduced, is the property of the house along with the proposed amendments. It is the prerogative of the house to decide in favour or against the amendments after discussion. Where were the Parliamentarians?

Was not Mr Jethmalani right in saying, "Power corrupts and the possibility of losing power corrupts absolutely"?

Where are we heading?

Punch

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:25 PM, <jp.sangamam@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all
We the people of india unite and fight against corruption, support ANNA.
Jp

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Subject: [India_Vision_2020] Parliament shames India

Hi all

In the past three days, Indian citizens have been fooled by the Honorable Members of Parliament.

Lokpal bill has been pending with Indian Parliament for the past 45 years, for one reason or other. After the break of major scams like Commonwealth games scam, 2G scam, Indians started realizing the need for some strong machinery to curb corruption.

Even the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was playing safe protecting the scamsters. Only after the intervention of Supreme Court and Media, the scamsters were arrested in all the major scams.

Even after getting enough proof of misuse of BSNL telephone connections for the family owned TV network, involving thousands of crores of loss to the Government, Maran brothers have not yet been arrested or brought before judicial system by the CBI. This has lowered the credibility of even the top investigating agency like CBI.

With this background, when Anna Hazare started the Anti corruption movement in last April 2011, millions of Indians stood behind him spontaneously. At that time, the Government promised to bring a strong Lokpal bill.

In spite of the fact that the Government spokespersons were ridiculing the movement itself, when Annaji started an indefinite fast, the whole nation again stood with him. This made the Lok Sabha to assure the nation that they would pass a strong Lok pal bill in the winter session.

In the winter session, the Government introduced the Lokpal bill. Though, it had lot of flaws, the people thought, something is better than nothing. After 8 hours of debate, Lok Sabha passed the bill on 27th Dec 2011 midnight. The constitutional status for lokpal was defeated.

Again when the bill was introduced on 29th Dec in Rajya Sabha, the intention of all the members were evident right from the beginning. Those, who watched live telecast in TVs would have predicted the results. Even from 6 PM onwards, all the channels started predicting that there would be chaos towards the end to avoid voting. As expected, one RJD member started plucking the papers from the minister and tore the papers in the open house, when the Vice President of India was chairing the session.

Even the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha (Vice President of India) was a silent observer of this ruckus. When a crucial bill was being debated, the Chairman did not order the marshals to remove the member from the House.

This situation also led the people to believe that the whole drama in Rajya Sabha was choreographed by all the vested interests and enacted verbatim.

The whole ruckus was going on till the midnight without any control. The people, who were watching the TV would have understood the intention of all the parties.

Finally, the Chairman adjourned the House sine-die. Though ruling and opposition parties are blaming each other for the ruckus and chaos, I feel all the parties have formed alliance to shame India.

All the parties do not want their Governments be investigated by any authority at Centre and State level.

I hang my head in shame for the behaviour of our Hon'ble Members of Parliament.

Srinivasan
Prime Point
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