As the BJP entered the parliament with a thumping victory and
a lion’s share of the total seat in the parliament, all the other major
parties, outside NDA were pretty much startled and disheartened to mull over
the conclusion to come. Out of these opposition parties who fought fiercely and
also in vain against Narendra Modi, Indian National Congress was the first and
foremost to do so and obviously it was the most disturbed one when the counting
process of the elections was over and now the whole of the congress party in
under great heat and also fearing the results of the elections in the future
which are sure to go in the basket of BJP because of the visionary and iconic
leadership of Mr. Narendra Modi. Congress first time faced such a great victory
with Rahul Gandhi leading it and at last after the elections Rahul Gandhi
dodged away from everything and even didn’t become the head of Indian National
Congress in the parliament and at last when no choice was left, Congress party’s
veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge was made to spearhead the Congress party and
now Rahul Gandhi as usual is nowhere to be seen.
But one more thing that has dashed the confidence of Indian National
Congress to the ground after being trounced in such a bad way is that this time
in the 16th Lok Sabha the Congress Party is not even able to be
seated at the place of Leader of Opposition. As far as the law is concerned,
any party which wishes to become a leader of opposition must have a clear
majority in the opposition parties and should also have the possession of 1/10th
seats in the Parliament House but amusing this time Congress doesn’t even
clarify the rule of 1/10th seats in the Lok Sabha, Congress
presently acquires around 44 seats in the parliament and to meet all the
criteria required it needs 11 more MPs in the parliament. The Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday
had written a formal letter to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, staking claim for the
post of the leader of opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha. Congress
sources said the idea to dash off letter to the Speaker was to test Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's commitment in the Parliament on Wednesday that
he would take the Opposition along in all decisions. Though the letter is
addressed to the Speaker, the ball is actually in Modi's court as to whether
his government concedes or opposes the post to the Congress.
The congress as well as one of its most prominent supporters
on this stance like Janata Dal United argues that to form a constructive opposition
and to check the misdoings of the Modi Government, the opposition must be
strengthened, but I found these things completely baseless. I would like to
place a few arguments in this favour.
My first argument in this regard is that the congress party doesn’t
qualify for the seat of the Leader of Opposition. Giving this crucial position
to leaders of congress party would not be welcomed by parties who are just
short of touching the Congress mark. Parties like TMC, AIADMD and BJD are just
short of less than 10 votes on exceeding the Congress’ vote tally and if in
future these parties form a coalition in opposition then leader of opposition
will be changed and this may exacerbate the problem.
The other thing is that parties like Congress try to oppose
the ruling party to the hilt in order to stop passing of various bill and this
may ultimately lead to the policy paralysis in the parliament leading to huge
wastage of money of the taxpayers and passing of some vital bill will be halted
leading to inefficacious functioning of the temple of democracy.
The third argument of mine is the “Tit for Tat” policy. There was no such
leader of Opposition in the first three Lok Sabhas and again in the fifth,
seventh and eighth Lok Sabhas, when the Congress was in brute majority. In those
times Congress party was pretty much reluctant to listen to anyone and at this
time I believe to lead the nation , the Modi government should listen to
everybody but not conceding to the demands of others.
In order to make the government function smoothly, people of
the nation rather than the opposition parties must be changed. Congress just
suffered for its malpractices and the nation showed it what it’s going to do
with those who are not up to the expectations of the denizens of the nation and
this is all what’s needed in a democracy.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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