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Mar122008
Next Time, Don’t Vote For An Actor-Politician…
…or you will really regret it.
You may like their on-screen persona and feel very much tempted to vote for them if they contest an election from your constituency, but resist that temptation. Why? Because their performance in Parliament sucks.
Take Govinda’s stint in Parliament for example. Let’s look at his performance, as reported by CNN-IBN,
- Parliament records show that he has attended only 10 per cent of all Parliament sessions in the last four years.
- He had had a relatively good year in 2005, attending 15 sessions out of 85.
- In 2006, his attendance fell to seven out of 77.
- 2007 saw the worst with the actor attending only two sessions out of 66.
- This year, when the Congress leadership was glowing in its apparent dream budget, Govinda decided to give that the miss too. His account is yet to open this year in Parliament.
- Parliament records also show that the actor has spoken only twice in the House – on May 10 and 11, 2005, for a minute each during Zero Hour.
Other actor-politicians don’t fare any better. Let’s take a cursory look at the recent records of a few more actor-politicians.
Dharmendra (Lok Sabha MP from Bikaner):
- Cumulative Attendance (8th, 9th & 10th session): 14/74 i.e. 19%
- Total Questions Asked (Fourteenth Lok Sabha):0
- Debates/Proceedings (Fourteenth Lok Sabha):0
Raj Babbar (Lok Sabha MP from Agra):
- Cumulative Attendance (8th, 9th & 10th session): 33/74 i.e. 44%
- Total Questions Asked (Fourteenth Lok Sabha): 5
- Debates/Proceedings (Fourteenth Lok Sabha): 8
Hema Malini ( Rajya Sabha MP- Nominated by BJP):
- Cumulative Attendance (210th session- I & II, 211th session): 20/48 i.e. 42%
- Total Questions Asked: 2
P. Jaya Prada (Lok Sabha MP from Rampur):
- Cumulative Attendance (8th, 9th & 10th session): 19/74 i.e. 26%
- Total Questions Asked (Fourteenth Lok Sabha):186
- Debates/Proceedings (Fourteenth Lok Sabha): 24
As the statistics show, though her attendance is horribly low, Jaya Prada seems to be quite an active participant whenever she is present in the House. But no, don’t feel too happy about it. Her days as a Member of Parliament are probably numbered.
Heck, the attendance of these actor-politicians can even put college students (like me) to shame who pride themselves on bunking as many classes as possible. The incompetence of these MPs becomes all the more obvious when you look at the research done by PRS Legislative Research. When they analysed the attendance of members in the Parliament in the period from June 2004 to December 2006 on the basis of profession, they reached the following conclusions,
- Lawyers and educationists have the best attendance record in Lok Sabha.
- Retired bureaucrats and servicemen have above-average attendance (about 75%) in both Houses.
- Lowest attendance is recorded by MPs who are engaged in industry/business or media and entertainment, many of whom have an active career.
So you get the point, don’t you? We are wasting our time electing these actor-politicians who are least worried about their constituencies. I think we are better off voting for those politicians who regularly disrupt Parliament with their protests over frivolous issues. I mean, at least they participate in the Parliament sessions, don’t they? Heh. It’s just a case of choosing the lesser evil.
The views expressed in this post are those of the writer and are not necessarily endorsed by Mutiny.in
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xylene
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11:43 pm
This is the case with many other of the MP’s whom we voted. They hardly attend any sessions, nor participate in the discussions.
You right, even college goers attend more classes than them.
Which Main? What Cross?
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11:23 am
As if, them being in the parliament would have made a difference.
Smartopinion
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6:17 am
And you seriously think that these actor’s 100% attendence is gonna change the situation..
Just take an average educated person from the village.. If he/she comes to the city and needs to fight for justice what’s the language in which he/she would get the justice..
Let ask the Sleeping beauty lawyer SANJUKTA how is the THINKING IN ONES BRAIN AND THE HINGLISH LANGUAGE linked together before we can start talking about providing justice to people,,,
A bunch of Pseudo GOT TOHETHER and wrote some CONSTITUTION and thought that they gonna make a 21’st century advance country out of it..
YOU CANNOT PROVIDE JUSTICE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO AN AUDIENCE WHO CANNOT EVEN GRASP AN AVERAGE PROFICIENCY OF ENGLISH..
Just watch Pranav Mukherji a Lefty speaking Hinglish without opening his mouth.. That makes me LOL LOL….
In an ideal democracy the job of the MP should be to make legislation. The Judiciary will interpret the Laws.. But if you choose a foreign language like English to make laws IT IS CHAOS for an ordinary person…
In a participatory democracy PEOPLE ARE ELECTED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR ISSUES. Their issues are fixed by MODIFICATION TO LEGISLATION. But DO U THINK A BENGALI SPEAKING sanjukta could make a law in English that would PROVIDE MAXIMUM PROTECTION for an average village person…
Almost 12′th standard failed students are going for law. And these low IQ people may become High Coourt and then Supreme court Judges..
Just watch the DOG EAT DOG issues which should be resolved in lower courts are now fought all the way to the Supreme court.. The Supreme Court of India is deciding what under garments U and I should wear…
Theb RESULT IS UTTER CHAOS… Yes when English was used by the founding fatherts as the foundation of DEMOCRACY they made the biggest mistake of all time.. It brought together people business wise BUT THERE IN THERE ITSELF WE LOST THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY..
Unless ALL 1 BILLION PEOPLE OF INDIA SPEAK ONLY ONE LANGUGE THAT IS ENGLISH THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY IS GONNA BE USELESS NO MATTER WHETHER ANYBODY ATTENDS PARILAMENT 100% or not..
So ASK YOUR CEREBELLUM IN YOUR MOTHER TONGUE WHAT KIND OF THOUGHT PROCESS AND COMMAND OVER ENGLISH IS REQUIRED TO WRITE LAWS IN ENGLISH.. ASK WHETHER LANGUAGE IS THE MAIN BARRIER BETWEEN ORDINARY PEOPLE AND GOOD DEMOCRACY…
Have U watched Backward Indias old hindi movies… In them lawyer characters refer to judges as “MEEE LORD” while the British use to refer to them as ” MY LORD”..
That’s sufficient proof as to how laws in foreign language and the quality of democracy does not go hand in hand.
I wonder whether Lawyer Sanjukta got an opportunity to say “MEEEEEEEEEE LORD” in ANY INDIAN COURT..
Kris
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6:22 am
@ xylene
If you follow the link I have provided to PRS Legislative Research in the post, you will see that other parliamentarians have a better record when compared to the actor-politicians.
@ Which Main? What Cross?
That’s exactly my point. Every time you elect an actor-politician, it is a seat wasted. We could have elected some other persons in their place who may have turned out to be better parliamentarians.
@ Smartopinion
I honestly don’t understand why you want to discuss English in a post related to actor-politicians. But still, after reading your comment I would like to ask which language, according to you, can substitute English?
Smartopinion
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6:40 am
@Kris I thought your statistics was pointing as to how people are not participating in democracy and representing the will of the people who elected them.. If that was not the intent then what’s the point of your statistics..
Why English. It could have been any Indian language including HIndi.. If the Southies protested then so be it…
Just SPEND SOME TIME ON THE ARGUMENTS OF REVOLUTIONARY DECISIONS MADE BY THE SUPREME COURT OF AMERICA. USA was/is powerful because of its Supreme court which is way advance in democratic thought even compared to France who invented Democracy…
Kris Have U travelled abroad. If yes your passport in India must have had a stamp called as ECNR (Emmigration check not required). Now why is this British time law stil existing in India. Why it did no occur to MILLIONS OF INDIANS WHO HAVE TRAVELLED ABROAD?
Language —-> Law ——> Justice ——–> Interest for Justice —–> Progress
They all are linked….
In time THE LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS IN INDIA WOULD HAVE NATURALLY SPREAD AND BROUGHT INDIA TOGETHER..
Here we morons watch Hindi moves abut accept award speech in English..
No proper language ===== no cohesive thought === CHAOS === POOR QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY ==== POOR ATTENDENCE
Kris
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6:54 am
@ Smartopinion
The statistics I have provided show how actor-politicians are not participating in the democracy.
As for English, it is the only reason why we are currently one of the emerging powers. Do you disagree? The IT industry thrives in India solely because of our considerable English-speaking population. If, as you say, Hindi was the standard language, do you think the IT industry, or for that matter, any other industry would have thrived in India? Unlikely. Everything depends on English. We are now debating here in English. I hope you understand that in the 21st century, English is indispensable, like it or not.
Smartopinion
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7:08 am
@Kris So U Happy english speaking Indian population has world class quality democracy right… I think I should tell Japanese people to write their constitution in English MAY BE ONLY THEN THEY WOULD BE 1’st from 2′nd largest democracy.. Oh the Chinese are SO BACKWARD THAN INDIA. May be they should have written there Communism in ENLISH AN D THEY WOULD HAVE BECOME LARGEST ECONOMY in the whole world…
YOU CANNOT PROVIDE JUSTICE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. The wordings and ultimately the law itself can only EVOLVE ONLY IF PEOPLE CAN RELATE TO IT.. ECNR is a classical example where people can use English but cannot relate to it… Just spend 1/h hour on USA’s supre court argument and U will be shocked as to what thought process is required to intepret a LAW AND THERE BY PROVIDE TOTAL JUSTICE.. Its all in the meaning of each and every word that makes a law…
Lucknow
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12:32 pm
Kris, why are so upset only by actors?
There are so many convicted criminals, some of them are even in jail, who are MPs.
Actors are usually rich and less likely to take bribes than others.
Ahmed Somali
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11:30 pm
Really Govinda is some one who is great a real actor can be very good Politician
That is what i believe
Ahmed Abdullahi Ahmed kadiye
Hargeisa - Somalia