Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge has urged Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to enable digital conferences of parliamentary standing committees, saying Parliament can’t be a mute spectator to the struggling of individuals. In a letter to the Rajya Sabha Chairman, Kharge sought his intervention and stated parliamentary panels can contribute to the continued endeavours in containing this pandemic and offering aid to folks.
“At this hour of collective disaster, the Parliament of India can’t be and should not be a mute spectator. It should give a message of solidarity with the folks, of great enterprise to alleviate their agony and of unity of objective,” he said. The senior Congress leader said the Department Related Standing Committees are an effective, non-partisan mechanism of Parliament and the tradition of collective brain-storming in the committees is a cherished achievement of the parliamentary system.
“The meetings of the Standing Committees at this juncture will provide the nation much required collective initiative across the party lines. They are an effective instrument to ensure accountability, to provide institutional platform to all stakeholders and to collective explore solutions. “It is in this spirit that I urge you to allow the virtual meetings of the Standing Committees,” he stated in his letter.
Kharge additionally introduced to the discover of the chairman that the 123rd Report of the Department Related Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare made very important suggestions for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’d request you to one once more take cognizance of the report and safe the motion taken report on its, as deemed match. Such an motion taken report can present afresh a blue print for additional tackling within the Covid menace within the nation,” he said, seeking Naidu’s intervention in convening virtual sittings of the committees.
Kharge said that “in these times of national catastrophe, we all need to come together, work together and provide succour to our fellow Indians”. Parliament is the supreme establishment that embodies the aspirations and expectations of the folks of India and can be the supreme platform for expression of their ache and anguish, and for deliberation on potentialities and options to finish their sufferings.
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