The address of the Home Minister of India to the Parliament was drowned amid
continuous raucous sloganeering from the opposition benches [NDTV's live
coverage of the Parliament session debating the Babri Masjid
demolition/Liberhan Commission report]
Today, as ever, Baghat Singh would be welcomed with a potent bomb to
decimate the opposition benches. This exercise would at least save a lot of
money to the hard-pressed tax-payers if nothing else.
I wonder if such things do happen in the Parliament of Singapore a fully
democratic country which our politicians like to call 'a police state'
If there was a referendum to ask: "Should the Speaker of the Lok Sabha be
given the powers to have the mis-behaving MPs caned until their backs become
raw" - I would doubly vote 'YES'
Floriano
goasuraj
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Communalization of politics has serious consequences
for culture of governance. It is when a party fails to
provide good governance but still wants to gain or
regain power that it plays the communal card.
Communal politics is, thus, a threat both to our
spiritual heritage from the past and our well being
in the present.
Swami Agnivesh
