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Parliament was treated like a temple once, recalls Keishing
Seven Sisters Post | IANS | New Delhi (May 6):
The discipline of Parliament has been lost with sloganeering and noisy scenes replacing patient debates, feels veteran parliamentarian Rishang Keishing, 91, who was a member of the first Lok Sabha and recalls the time when parliament was like “a temple and the speaker its priest”.
As Lok Sabha completes 60 years next Sunday on May 13, Keishing, presently a Rajya Sabha member from Manipur, remembers how veterans waited for their turn to speak, and the decision of the chair was considered the last word – “treated with respect”.
“There is a gulf of difference in the Parliament then and now. The way things are going, discipline has been lost… It is not good for the nation,” Keishing said in an interview.
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