Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on January 9 that planned disruptions are detrimental to the spirit of democracy and incidents of compromising the dignity of the House call for tough measures.
Mr. Birla made the remarks after inaugurating a two-day orientation programme for new Madhya Pradesh MLAs at the State Assembly here.
“In the last few years, the number of sittings as well as productivity of legislatures has decreased, on account of increasing incidents of House adjournments due to disruption and commotion,” Mr. Birla said. Some degree of disagreement, noise and uproar is natural on the floors of the House, but often heated debates result in disorder and chaos, leading to loss of time and resources which only reduces the credibility of legislatures among the people, he said.
