The business of the Parliament of India in each session is quite demanding, but the approach of the members of the house is quite lacking. Considering that the 2011 Monsoon Session of the Parliament is supposed to consider 35 pending bills, introduce 32 new bills and replace 2 ordinances with 2 new bills, i.e. a total of 69 bills, in 26 sittings, it is shameful that the new session started off with an adjournment and saw an uproar in the Rajya Sabha. This lackadaisical approach to parliamentary business is quite sickening.
One point that stood out during my perusal of the newspaper archives of the period between 1996 and 2005, while conducting research into the coverage of the freedom of information campaign in India, is the consensus among the major national parties - the Bharatiya Janata Party and its National Democratic Alliance coalition, and the Congress Party and its United Progressive Alliance coalition; in not conducting the business of the parliament. The two coalitions have made a mockery of the proceedings of the house and have stalled the business of the house, thereby rendering the purpose of the parliament - to examine, scrutinize and decide on issues of national interest; to be ineffective.
This blog will be a rumination on the political processes in India, with a special emphasis placed on the processes involved in current political affairs in India.
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