Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Tuesday said that government freebies had left people in a state of political intoxication and the matter required serious deliberation.
Mr. Dhankhar said “the temples of democracy” are now “hotbeds of disturbance and disruptions”. Legislatures are “fast surging into irrelevance”, leaving the country in a “cliff-hanger-like” situation, he said.
He was delivering the valedictory address at the 9th regional conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in Udaipur.
