AndhraNews.Net - Letter to Editor

New Delhi: December 12, 2003

It refers to welcome decision of Union Government to introduce bills to tighten anti-defection law and to limit ministry-size to maximum 15 percent of strength of the lower House. Ministry-size should be restricted to maximum 10-percent of Lower-House strength instead of proposed 15-percent. Even though defections have made mockery of our democracy, yet any tightening of anti-defection law will induce dictatorship of big party bosses. Best remedy is to make provisions whereby legislators may have to vote secretly for election of the leader of the House so that it may become impossible to prize the greedy ones changing sides. To ensure stability of governments and full terms of lower Houses, no-confidence motion may also be voted secretly on written demand of at least one-third members and with compulsion to name alternate leader in the same motion. Abolition of constitutional provision of Upper House in States can cut useless legislative expenses when only five states are continuing with �white elephant� legacy in form of Vidhaan Parishads!

At the same time, bills for simple basis reforms which do not require any discussion should also be introduced. No person should be allowed to contest from more than one constituency or for both Lok Sabha and Vidhaan Sabha. Rather a sitting MP or MLA must resign from his/ her earlier seat before filing nomination for the other seat. Any MP or MLA joining Ministry in State or in Centre may automatically lose his/ her earlier membership to avoid unfortunate situations like Vajpayee Government losing by lone controversial vote of the then Orissa Chief Minister Girdhar Gomango in Lok Sabha!

Letter by SC Agarwal

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