shri vinod sharma - Rajya Sabha

leaders are saying the same thing. There is repetition. There is nothing new. How
can you find a new point In one-and-a-half years, I feel frustrated. There is no
new point. Even the senior leaders are doing the same thing. But, then, you are
trying to find space in media! It is just not justified. My request to the Dy.
Chairman is to tell his MPs to prepare better and tell something new which should
be exciting for the journalist then it will be reported.
SHRI VINOD SHARMA: Now, the subjects debated in Parliament are very
complicated. For example, climate change, WTO talks, etc. You mentioned about
the Indo-US Nuclear Deal. Now, tell me how many MPs had read and understood
that Deal. There are just one or two or three in each party. All told that there
would have been a dozen Members. In many case, that did not include the floor
leaders. There are some other Members who are reading and taking part in the
debate. So, I think, the party system earlier was a kind of patshala for MPs where
they were guided adequately and taught how to pick up specialization on various
subjects. Only the Left Parties are doing it, to some extent, these days. No other
party doing it. I think political parties which are representing in Parliament owe it to
the Parliamentary System to inculcate the specialization amongst the MPs in order
to make the debate robust. About the standards mentioned by our friend from the
PTI, two years is too short a period for you to reach to this conclusion.
MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: I would like to intervene. I would not fully agree with
what my friend from PTI said. We are attempting to see that MPs are giving
adequate inputs to speak on Parliament. We have LAARDIS. If a Member is
participating in a debate, he may not have all the information with him. Then, he
can go to LAARDIS, say that he would like to speak on a particular subject. The
LAARDIS will provide information in a dossier and made available to the Member.
Most of the Members utilize this. Sometimes, repetition is unavoidable, because
emphasis has to be there. Your experience is 2 years. But, according to my