The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on the first day of the monsoon session of parliament Monday. The lower house assembled at 11 p.m., which was followed by Speaker Meira Kumar leading the members in paying tribute to deceased former vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and former union minister and Bihar MP Digvijay Singh. The speaker also remembered the victims of various disasters - the train accident in West Bengal July 22, the Maoist attack in Narayanpur in Chattisgarh June 29 and the plane crash in Mangalore May 22. On the 11th anniversary of Kargil operations, she also paid tribute to the martyrs of India's war who protected the Kargil heights in Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistani raiders and camouflaged regular troops in 1999.
Meira Kumar then adjourned the house for the day
Why adjourn? Why can't the Parliament spend 15 mintues paying tributes, observe one minute of silence and then get on with the job of law making? That would be the best tribute one can give to the dead. Why should all the MP's get a days holiday? I am sure no one will be even thinking about the dead once they are out of the hall. They will be indulging in wheeling and dealing, brokering deals, playing petty politics to the detriment of the nation rest of the day. The cost of maintaining these MP's per day is prohibitively high. Why should the tax payer be cheated of his hard earned money like this?
