Bhuban da, What you said is theoretically up to the point. That is the procedure. But that does not happen in practice. When questions are selected for reply in the house, few points are considered: 1. Regional coverage 2. Influence of the MP 3. Media coverage of the matter 4. Personal preference of the presiding officer (as well as the Parliamentary Affairs minister, PAM) as PAM reminds the concerned minister about the questions 5. Number of questions received from a member 6. Many more!!!!
My point was, there are lots of problems in Assam (even the whole country). If you bring 10 to 20 points to the secretariat, at least one or two questions will come to the house. It is MPs job to bring peoples problems to government's notice. About Sonia Gandhi, that was a humor! Never the less, it has become a reality. The congress MPs are afraid to bring any problem to government's notice as both the Center and the state is ruled by Congress. It might implicate the party. Have you ever heard about their participation in discussion! BTW, I had a chance to meet PA Sangma when he was Speaker of the house and was able to talk to him for about an hour and selection of questions in either house of parliament was one of the point he explained. Ganesh ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list Assam@pikespeak.uccs.edu http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam Mailing list FAQ: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/assam/assam-faq.html To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam