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Username: Jamadagni
Post Number: 1870
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 66.87.126.51
| | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 3:50 pm: |    |
talks to the Hindu.
"The trouble is the attitude [of members] towards each other ... forget about bipartisan politics, it is going to a personal level. This was not there when I came in to the House in 1971. There were bitter debates. Jyotirmay Basu and Madhu Limaye, Bhupesh Gupta and others [were] in full cry. People used to flock to hear them."
2. " These are things I don't want to glamorise. The Speaker gets all sorts of facilities, a beautiful house with a decent lawn, a car, but why should I make Parliament pay for a cup of tea I offer to you? I am getting a salary and what I do not need I will not ask the Government. There is a provision for a spouse's car in the Speaker's entourage, I said no, she would not use a Government car for personal purpose. When I go abroad, there is a provision of $75 a day. Why do I need it when my air fare, hotel and transportation are provided? I can't use Government money. Yes, sometime you have to pay tips, etc., but that one can pay out of one's pocket. But I do not wish to glamorise it. "
3. " I am partisan in some of my views, but once you sit there you have a feeling [that] you belong to the House. I have not attended party meetings and I am no longer in the Central Committee [of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)] or the State Committee. Except being a party MP, I have nothing to do with the party though I have my leanings, commitments. But once you sit there, you do not feel you have to uphold the party's point of view."
http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/04/stories/2005060402 971100.htm |
