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Live telecast may be suspended if Rajya Sabha disrupted: Ansari
Sunday April 21, 2013 05:57:57 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Suggesting suspension of live telecast of Question Hour in the
upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President
M. Hamid Ansari Sunday said there is a need to correct the
"collective behaviour" responsible for frequent house disruptions.
The vice president, in an all-party meeting here, said he called
the meeting in "agony and distress" as the disruptions caused by
members in the house were adversely affecting the public
perception of parliament.
"Since one possible objective of disruptions is to seek instant
publicity through live telecast of proceedings, we may dispense
with simultaneous telecast of the Question Hour and instead have
it on a deferred basis," official sources quoted the vice
president as having said.
Ansari also said that the members creating disruption by rushing
towards the chairman's podium or otherwise indulging in "grossly
disorderly behaviour" should be named in the records, the sources
said.
He suggested that consultations should be initiated for
incorporation in the rules a provision of automatic suspension for
a specified period of a member creating grave disorder in the
house. He said a similar rule existed in Lok Sabha, they said.
"The sad, and deeply disturbing, truth is that such adjournments
have been forced with disturbing frequency. If this practice goes
unchecked, public esteem for parliament as the highest forum of
our democracy will be adversely affected leading, eventually, to
questions about its very relevance," said Ansari.
The vice president said expressions like "competitive hooliganism"
and "collective shame" were used to describe the behaviour of
unruly members by media and this reflected poorly on the dignity
of the house of elders and brought it down in public esteem.
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