Bhubaneswar, Dec. 20: From the Odisha Legislative Assembly (OLA) to the Parliament of India; pandemonium, ruckus, din and logjam kind of disruptions have become regular phenomena. Proceedings of legislatures are increasingly getting affected, belying the hopes and expectations of countrymen.

Once again, the Parliament of India now sees such kind of disruptions as the MPs, especially those belonging to the Opposition, resorting to disruptions as they pursue their demand for a statement from the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah on the issue of recent security breach.

India is the mother of all democracies and the idea runs in the blood of every citizen of the country. Since the early historic age to the modern times; there have been attempts to muzzle the democratic spirits of the people. However, barring the Muslim periods — the Sultanate and Mughal regimes — the Indians have always stood for restoring democracy.

After Independence, however, some vested interests have been trying to mould the democratic fabrics of the country as per their own whims and fancies. In the ongoing Winter Session of the Parliament, the “unruly” behavior of the certain members once again is seen as such a deliberate attempt to disrupt the country’s democratic journey.

Creating pandemonium and ruckus on the floor of the legislature, though not unconstitutional, is not appreciable. Such disruptions lead to massive waste of time and resources. The resources thus wasted are the public money. What right have we got to waste the taxpayer’s hard-earned money? Don’t they deserve good contributions from the lawmakers? Shouldn’t they ask for good conduct from both the opposition and Treasury bench members?

With the latest 49 Opposition lawmakers being suspended on Tuesday, almost the entire Opposition has been suspended from both Houses of Parliament for the rest of the sessions during the Winter Session in three installments. Nobody will disagree that now the situation has come to such a passé that it’s almost impossible to run the House in such a scenario. Equally, everybody’s expectation that Prime Minister or home minister Amit Shah make a statement in Parliament about the serious breach of security that occurred in the Lok Sabha last week is not an absurd proposition or demand.

The members have been sent out for disruption of the House, including breaking the rule that they should not bring in placards. The government and the respective chairs of the Houses may demand that the members go by the rules but what defies logic is sending them out for the whole session for a day’s violation of the rules.

It has been democratic convention that the government explains to the members, and through them, to the nation the government’s position on important happenings in the country. It is the necessary condition for a functioning democracy that the government remains accountable to the citizens; it is not enough that the ministers go to them only during the elections. Democracy is a process of constant dialogue with all stakeholders.

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In this context,  the Speaker of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha chairman must hold talks with both the treasury bench and opposition members and evolve a path to end the current logjam to give justice to crores of countrymen who expect their legislature and lawmakers to work sensibly.