Lack of good speakers in Parliament

May 13, 2012 16:12

There was a time when Parliament resonated with the oratory of Jawaharlal Nehru and Ram Manohar Lohia, Hiren Mukherjee and Piloo Modi.

In recent years, MPs such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Chandra Shekhar and Somnath Chatterjee upheld the tradition.

But today, one is used to a situation where neither the Treasury nor the Opposition can field a good speaker during an important debate. Many see it as a crisis in Indian politics that even the two principal parties have to rely on lawyers such as Kapil Sibal and Arun Jaitley when they need someone to make a forceful speech.

Surveys have revealed that MPs' average educational qualifications have improved over the decades. If 41 per cent of the members between 1952 and 1957 were undergraduates, the percentage fell to 18 by 1999.

Thats's the report on the Telegraph, Calcutta. Read

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