Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday called for serious reflection on what he termed a tendency to “weaponise” disruption and disturbance as a political strategy in Parliament and State legislatures.
Leaders of Houses and the presiding officers must analyse this malaise and create a national consensus that the temples of democracy would be used for deliberation and debate, the Vice-President said inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of the Kerala Legislative Assembly building.
“The nation expects Parliament and legislatures to establish traditions of parliamentary democracy that exemplify the highest standards,” he said. ‘’If the conduct displayed in Parliament is not worth emulation, there is something lacking that involves catalysing and thinking by our minds,’‘ he said adding that there was growing public anguish over the matter.
