Sachin Tendulkar hasn't attended a single Parliament session this year

August 07, 2014 10:48

CNN-IBN reports: Cricket legend and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar has come under criticism for not attending a single session of Paliament this year.

Senior Congress leader Rajeev Shukla questioned the point behind Tendulkar's nomination to the Upper House saying if he was not going to attend it. Shukla said that he has spoken to Tendulkar last week and he had promised he will attend more regularly. He was nominated to Rajya Sabha in 2012.

According to records, Tendulkar has only 3 per cent attendance last year, having attended Parliament only three times. He has not attended a single session of Rajya Sabha this year.

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