Lungi-clad MLAs
Assam Tribune Editorial 11th Aug 07 Last Tuesday the Assam Assembly witnessed
a comical and unprecedented spectacle of AUDF MLAs attending the august House
wearing Lungis andTopis and carrying placards in their hands much to the
amusement of the ruling party. On a point of order, raised by a member, the
Speaker instead of admonishing the AUDF members for their sartorial preference
spoke at length about the dos and donts to be observed by the members while
attending the House.Lungi is worn mostly in Bangladesh, but their legislators
do not attend their legislative bodies wearing Lungis nor it is worn while
praying in Masjid.In the South, people wear Dhotis in Lungi style and attend
formal functions wearing the same. Our Finance Minister P.Chidambaram very
often wears Dhoti in Lungi style while attending Parliament. Members of
legislative bodies adopt various tactics to exhibit their protests. In some
cases it ends up in fisticuffs between members as recently
happened in Andhra Pradesh Assembly. Some time back, Trinamool Congress MLAs
ransacked the WB Assembly premises destroying valuable property like ordinary
rowdies. Even ordinary citizens adopt ingenious method to voice their protest.
The Gujjars blocked the national highway for days together with the dead bodies
of their fellow protectors killed in police action. Young men shaved their
heads to express solidarity in the nation wide demand for reservation of OBC
quota. But the most daring and novel way of protest was exhibited by the
valiant and fiery ladies of Manipur who bared themselves to protest against
rape of women by security forces. The members of the legislative Assemblies
are in a different footing. All eyes are focused on them and their every
action or word is analysed by responsible citizens. They are expected to
behave in a dignified way and not to lower the sacred institution by their
deeds and words.Unfortunately, over the years the prestige and
honour of the legislative institutions have gone down considerably due to
actions of some of the members. The AUDF members gimmick may fool Lungiclad
illegal immigrants for sometime, but such gimmick cannot fool all the people
for all the time and if encouraged may embolden some members to attend the
Assembly in their birthday suits as their birth right. Therefore the behaviour
of the AUDF MLAs deserves severe condemnation.
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