Deputy Speaker Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Thursday that the Parliament will be irrelevant if it does not act as a center of dialogue and debate.
The Rajya Sabha Speaker’s comments came on a day when a motion for his removal brought by 60 INDIA Bloc MPs in the Rajya Sabha was rejected by Deputy Speaker Harivansh, who found the petition “grossly flawed”.
Both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned for Thursday following the uproar over Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s comments about BR Ambedkar during the debate on the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
Speaking to probationers of the Indian Forest Service at Parliament House Annexe, Dhankhar said, “I have no doubt that if Parliament does not become the nerve center of dialogue, debate and discussion, people’s issues will not be addressed in Parliament. In a democracy the environment calls, then Parliament moves into irrelevance.”
He urged all the political parties to protect the environment of the legislature.
People work very hard to choose their representatives in elections. They do this with a dream, with an object that these people will deliver our aspirations for us, help realize our ambitions by engaging in policy making. If these temples are disturbed, blocked, there is no dialogue, no discussion then I can say that it is against our national value system,” he said.
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