21 days and those 2 Houses

Robin Sharma in his best seller “The monk who sold his Ferrari” put forth the idea of “21 days practice”. To put any action into a regular habit it takes 21 days of continuous effort, all by repeating the same action for 21 days at the same time.

The winter session of our parliament just put the theory into practice. The non-functional parliament for 21 days can be termed as one of definite low of parliament democracy till date. It is not that Indian parliament has not seen the worse but the fact that ruling coalition UPA-II commands an overwhelming

majority and still acts in the most puny manner, threatens the survival of healthy democracy.

The parliamentary democracy sees every occupant member as a representative of total population of India. The occupant member fails to realize it and is seen involved in mud-slinging and other ignominious activities.

The demand for JPC which led to the 21 days inactivity of parliament caused losses rising to crores of rupees. It is irrefutable to say that this also can be termed as another scam where misutilisation of 'power' by 'powerful' members caused deficit to Indian exchequer.

The Indian independence movement and leaders of that time were guided by certain value. It was this value that won them popular support or even recognition from world over including British. The values of erstwhile leaders were imbibed in the constitution of India which has been our 'constitutionalism'.

During early years of our sovereign nationhood, moral values and national repute was considered as the topmost priority by leaders and was equally demonstrated not only in difficult times but also in every tenure as members

of parliament.

Nonetheless, the present occupants have also been vociferous about national repute as the topmost priority but have failed to demonstrate with any action. The JPC demand that MP’s are insisting on is neither a solution nor is the end of any debate. It is just political tactics to demonstrate power.

India to become a real force needs to showcase primarily its parliamentary democracy as the strongest factor. Such incidences of disruption of parliament create a political instability and reveal our weakness to the world. The relevance of parliamentary debate and functional democracy are weakened.

Indian parliamentary system needs to inculcate new values to check such stray incidences which are capable of hampering the reputation of our democracy worldwide.

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Abhilash Mahapatra comes back to Indian Policy, albeit quite dejected about the Parliamentary Democracy of India. However, like all of us, he too hopes for a better India.