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| | The Legal Needs Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Actor politician's contribution to Democracy | Views: 592 | | Mar 13, 2008 2:43 am | | Actor politician's contribution to Democracy | # |
7 Th Thinking Hat | |
In 4 yrs, Govinda spoke in Parliament for 2 minutes
Actor-politician Govinda is known for being late on film sets but it appears that his bad habit has crept into his political career as well.
In 2004, when he defeated the BJP heavyweight Ram Naik from Mumbai North many saw at it as a second innings for Govinda.
However, the actor’s political stint has been totally uneventful. Here’s a look at how he fares as a parliamentarian.
* Parliament records show that he has attended only 10 per cent of all Parliament sessions in the last four years.
* He had had a relatively good year in 2005, attending 15 sessions out of 85.
* In 2006, his attendance fell to seven out of 77.
* 2007 saw the worst with the actor attending only two sessions out of 66.
* This year, when the Congress leadership was glowing in its apparent dream budget, Govinda decided to give that the miss too. His account is yet to open this year in Parliament.
* Parliament records also show that the actor has spoken only twice in the House – on May 10 and 11, 2005, for a minute each during Zero Hour.
Source: http://www.ibnlive.com/news/in-4-yrs-govinda-spoke-in-parliament-for-2-minutes/60823-3-2.htmlPrivate Reply to 7 Th Thinking Hat | | Mar 13, 2008 2:47 am | | re: Actor politician's contribution to Democracy | # |
7 Th Thinking Hat | | Other actor-politicians don’t fare any better. Let’s take a cursory look at the recent records of a few more actor-politicians.
Dharmendra (Lok Sabha MP from Bikaner):
* Cumulative Attendance (8th, 9th & 10th session): 14/74 i.e. 19%
* Total Questions Asked (Fourteenth Lok Sabha):0
* Debates/Proceedings (Fourteenth Lok Sabha):0
Raj Babbar (Lok Sabha MP from Agra):
* Cumulative Attendance (8th, 9th & 10th session): 33/74 i.e. 44%
* Total Questions Asked (Fourteenth Lok Sabha): 5
* Debates/Proceedings (Fourteenth Lok Sabha): 8
Hema Malini ( Rajya Sabha MP- Nominated by BJP):
* Cumulative Attendance (210th session- I & II, 211th session): 20/48 i.e. 42%
* Total Questions Asked: 2
P. Jaya Prada (Lok Sabha MP from Rampur):
* Cumulative Attendance (8th, 9th & 10th session): 19/74 i.e. 26%
* Total Questions Asked (Fourteenth Lok Sabha):186
* Debates/Proceedings (Fourteenth Lok Sabha): 24
As the statistics show, though her attendance is horribly low, Jaya Prada seems to be quite an active participant whenever she is present in the House. But no, don’t feel too happy about it. Her days as a Member of Parliament are probably numbered.
Heck, the attendance of these actor-politicians can even put college students (like me) to shame who pride themselves on bunking as many classes as possible. The incompetence of these MPs becomes all the more obvious when you look at the research done by PRS Legislative Research. When they analysed the attendance of members in the Parliament in the period from June 2004 to December 2006 on the basis of profession, they reached the following conclusions,
* Lawyers and educationists have the best attendance record in Lok Sabha.
* Retired bureaucrats and servicemen have above-average attendance (about 75%) in both Houses.
* Lowest attendance is recorded by MPs who are engaged in industry/business or media and entertainment, many of whom have an active career.
So you get the point, don’t you? We are wasting our time electing these actor-politicians who are least worried about their constituencies. I think we are better off voting for those politicians who regularly disrupt Parliament with their protests over frivolous issues. I mean, at least they participate in the Parliament sessions, don’t they? Heh. It’s just a case of choosing the lesser evil.
Source: http://naiveindian.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/next-time-dont-vote-for-an-actor-politician/Private Reply to 7 Th Thinking Hat | | Mar 13, 2008 5:25 am | | re: re: Actor politician's contribution to Democracy | # |
Hiren Shah | | Interesting post. You did not mention Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha. I don't think they could have fared much better. I know that Sinha was made health minister a few months back and made a mess of it.
The problem is that in politics, no qualification is required and there is no short term accoutability as a result of which these things happen. As you have pointed out, others are only marginally bettter. It is strange that we have proper goals and performance management in companies but they are absent where they matter more- in the management of a whole country.
Coindientally, I wrote an article on it recently:-
http://wplay.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/lead-india-don%e2%80%99t-bleed-india/
Private Reply to Hiren Shah | | Mar 27, 2008 7:08 am | | re: Actor politician's contribution to Democracy | # |
rani shweta | | it is not just the actor politician, other politicians too ,if they start taking serious interest in reforming the country (for which they are being paid a huge chunk of tax payers money)the country would stand in the list of developed countries.......given the means and resources that it has. But the only problem is that the politicians once they come to power get too busy in maintaining their swiss bank accounts rather then taking care of the problems of people from their constituencies......
the actor politicians have to further grace award ceremonies,inaugrals etc,.so where is the time for "attending" parliament !!Private Reply to rani shweta | | |
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