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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 do not buy the argument that this bill was being rushed through. THE CANCER
OF CORRUPTION NEEDS URGENT S.O.S SURGERY. 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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