क्या अपोजिशन पार्टी के क्वेश्चन के लिए और प्रधानमंत्री से प्रश्न पूछने के लिए अलग से समय निर्धारित होना चाहिए ?

 disruption in parliament 

 That practice, used in India’s Parliament, many of whose members (and not only in the Opposition) appear to believe that the best way to show the strength of their feelings is to disrupt the lawmaking rather than debate the law.

 Last session, the Opposition parties united to stall both Houses almost every single day. 

While that was extreme, there has not been a single session in recent years in which at least some days were not lost to deliberate disruption.

But we knows it's real value

1  Indian politicians were initially proud of the parliamentary system they had adopted upon Independence, patterned as it was on Britain’s Westminster model.

2  India’s nationalists had been determined to enjoy the democracy their colonial rulers had long denied them, and had convinced themselves the British system was the best, 

precisely since they had been excluded from enjoying its benefits. 

3 When a future British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee

 travelled to India as part of a constitutional commission and argued the merits of a presidential system over a parliamentary one, 

his Indian interlocutors reacted with horror. “It was as if,” Attlee recalled, “I had offered them  margarine/ नकली मक्खन instead of butter.”

कैसी है हमारे देश की प्रथा ? क्या ब्रिटेन की नकल कर रहे ?

 Indian MPs still thump their desks in approbation, rather than applauding by clapping their hands.

 When Bills are put to a vote, an affirmative call is still usually “aye”, rather than “yes” (though “hanh” is gaining ground on the Treasury benches these days).

A fading of British practices

1  Some of the State Assemblies have already witnessed scenes 

of furniture overthrown, microphones ripped out and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fisticuffs मुक्केबाज़ी  and garments torn in scuffles हाथापाई  among politicians. 

2 code of conduct 

that is imparted / के लिए दिया है  to all newly-elected MPs — including injunctions रोक  against speaking out of turn, shouting slogans, waving placards and marching into the well of the house — is routinely breached.

3 Pepper spray was once released

in the well by a protesting MP, resulting in the hospitalisation of some MPs and the then Speaker experiencing discomfort. 

4 suspended from membership

 On several occasions now, MPs in the Upper and Lower Houses have been suspended from membership for such transgressions as charging up to the presiding officer’s desk, wrenching his microphone and tearing up his papers — only to be quietly reinstated after a few months and some muted apologies.

Space for the Opposition

But can India’s Parliament go on like this? 

Many worry that such conduct has so thoroughly discredited the legislature in the eyes of the public that the credibility of the institution is beyond redemption.

  government, 

🌺media intimidation,

🌺 the hollowing out of autonomous institutions, 

🌺pressures by investigative agencies on political opponents and 

🌺the government’s flagrant disregard for parliamentary conventions. 

parliamentary committees

Currently, all major parliamentary committees dealing with sensitive issues are chaired by MPs of the ruling party or its allies, 

in disregard अवहेलना  of the practice whereby, for instance, the External Affairs Committee was always chaired by an Opposition MP, to show that the nation was of one mind on foreign policy.

क्या ब्रिटेन का मॉडल डिसरप्सन को रोक पाता जिसे हम नहीं अपनाया ? 

The first is to allow the Opposition a day a week to set the agenda

since disruptions are always sought to be justified as required to force the government to debate an issue it does not want to.

 In Britain, “Opposition Day” permits Opposition parties to select specific policy areas or issues they want to bring to the floor of the House for debate. 

These debates allow the Opposition to focus on matters of political significance and they provide Opposition parties with the opportunity to draw attention to issues they believe are important, criticise government policies, and propose alternatives. 

The number of Opposition Days in a parliamentary session is typically determined by the government and Opposition parties through negotiation and agreement. 

This arrangement ensures that the Opposition has a designated platform to express its views and priorities within the parliamentary schedule.

 It could be adopted as part of a grand bargain under which the Opposition, in turn, foreswears any resort to disruption.

Question time for the Prime Minister

A second practice is good for our country, 

where the Prime Minister notoriously कुख्यात prefers monologues  अकेले व्यक्ति का लंबा भाषण to answering questions 

and does not even answer the questions addressed to him in the daily Question Hour, leaving that task to a Minister of State in his office. 

This is Prime Minister’s Question Time (PMQs)

a significant and widely watched parliamentary event in the United Kingdom, 

where MPs have the opportunity to question the Prime Minister about various issues. 

PMQs take place every Wednesday when the House of Commons is in session, usually at noon, and typically lasts for about 30 minutes, though the exact duration can vary. 

The order of questioning alternates between the Leader of the Opposition and backbench MPs from both government and Opposition benches.

 The Leader of the Opposition starts by asking several short questions, followed by supplementaries, and then other MPs have a go. 

Each question is relatively short, and the Prime Minister responds in kind. 

PMQs are known for spirited exchanges and are immensely popular television viewing in Britain. 

Both are key aspects of the British parliamentary system’s tradition of executive accountability. 

While Opposition Days and PMQs

can be raucous and often confrontational affairs, sometimes characterised by political theatre, 

they serve the important function of allowing MPs to scrutinise the Prime Minister and the government, are central to the U.K.’s democratic process and show parliamentary democracy in action.

Finally, the Speaker

can change his current habit of rejecting every single adjournment motion moved by an Opposition MP; 

clubbing all proposed amendments to Bills into one and rejecting them by voice vote without discussion;

 and refusing to even notice requests for recording dissent through “division”. 

These parliamentary techniques are essential for Opposition members to feel they are valued members of an institution rather than irrelevances who can always be disregarded and outvoted. 

If the government and Opposition can come together on such basic matters, Parliament — and our democracy — can still be saved.