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| Inexperienced legislators play opposition for Govt in LA | | More than half of the legislators first timers | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 8: At a time when the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was striving hard to an offensive opposition camp, her own party members and that of the coalition added to her misery due to their inexperience and parliamentary practices and conventions to be observed in the House.
Top sources within the coalition told Early Times that the Chief Minister has expressed concern over what she termed the erratic attitude of her several party MLAs and of the BJP in the Budget session. Mehbooba, as per sources, has also asked her own party legislators to behave in accordance with the protocol during the Assembly sessions and refrain from raising personal issues in the House.
On May 28- merely three days after the budget session when the legislative Assembly began, PDP leaders were seen fighting with each other to the muse of the oppostion.
"You have created confusion among people over ration distribution. What criteria have you adopted to leave out families from ration as per the Act," PDP MLA, Ashraf Mir asked the CAPD Minister Choudhary Zulfikar Ali.
Zulfikar retorted by saying, "nayi nayi ministry gayi hai (Ministry was taken back from you). To this Javaid Mir said "ministry is not anybody's property".
Both Ashraf Mir and Javaid Mir were dropped from the council of ministers in the Mehbooba Mufti-led government.
As heated arguments ensued among them, PDP Minister Abdul Haq Khan intervened to pacify them.
In his supplementary, PDP MLA Yawar Mir shouted to his own party minister Zulfikar that 24,000 souls have been left out of the ration as per NFSA.
"What kind of criteria is this that a person having 80 kanals of land is excluded and another person having 75 kanals is included for the ration? Sagar Sahab is right by questioning the food law," Mir said.
In angry tone, he said that all the ministers will lose their portfolios if the confusion and wrongs in the Act are not cleared.
Furthermore, during the entire proceedings, the several members of the PDP and the BJP were seen lost in confusion over what to support and what not to, prompting CPI(M) leader, Yousuf Tarigami to say that the members of the house need to be given proper training over how the house functions.
Pertinently, more than half of the legislators, including the Speaker, are first timers with little knowledge and experience of the proceedings and conduct of the House.
Observers say that this has happened for the first time that barring few, there was no legislator who could have made an impact during the entire proceedings.
Meanwhile, what is more ironic is that even the ministers of the coalition were not even knowing what they are responding to and how should they make a convincing argument. Even when assembly witnessed ruckus over the SRO-105, there were very few legislators who knew what this SRO really means and how it is going to affect the state, if it would.
Even the legislators of the PDP praised former R&B minister Syed Altaf Bukhari for the work he did during his tenure as the minister, knowing little that it was the party that snatched Bukhari's portfolio from him. "These inexperienced legislators created more trouble in the house than the opposition. Sometimes, they demanded enhancement in their salaries and sometimes fought with their own party men. Both the ruling parties must train their respective MLAs and MLCs so that they could behave as responsible legislators in the house," says a senior PDP functionary. |
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