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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
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ACCOUNTABILITY OF PARLIAMENT
I stayed awake till midnight to watch the passage of the Lokpal bill in the
Rajya Sabha.The Chairman was going"Please,please,you can't do this,sit down/go
back to your seats,this is disgraceful etc" and this went on from both sides of
the house,each trying to out shout/ outsmart the other! RJD Rajniti Prasad the
last speaker,talks on and on then walks over and snatches the Lokpal bill from
the minister of parliamentary affairs whilst he is making the government
reply!When the deadline is midnight,house is adjourned for 15 minutes around
2300 due rowdiness!Why cannot the Chairman assert his authority and warn unruly
members/use marshals to remove them?Why Mr Prasad/members not punished,not
even chastised for "disgraceful" behavior?The midnight hour exposed the
chanayaka behavior of our 'honorable"members !
I trust all those who were saying Anna is destroying democracy will reassess
their blinkered views?I do not buy the argument that this bill was being rushed
through. After 42 plus years of sidelining this bill,there has been and were
enough of talks/discussion,and all parties were aware of the key issues namely
independence of the CBI and the Sense of the House clearly spelling it out?If
after all that, the Parliamentarians cannot pass a strong anti corruption bill
whilst handling the Trinamool Congress,BSP and RJD in the nation's
interest,they are not fit to uphold the supremacy of Parliament which is
accountable to "WE the People".
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