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Call for debate on conduct in House

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Maharashtra Governor S.M. Krishna (centre) unveiling the statue of the former Lok Sabha Speaker, Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, in Tirupati on Saturday.

TIRUPATI: Maharashtra Governor S.M. Krishna on Saturday expressed strong reservations about the "flagrant violation" of well-established parliamentary procedures and the way members were conducting themselves in Parliament and the State legislatures.

He called for a national debate on the issue by all political parties and said the members should observe "self-imposed restrictions" to maintain the decorum of the House, notwithstanding provocations.

Citing an example, Mr. Krishna said the time-honoured ruling that no policy decision of the government should be announced outside the House when it was in session was often violated.

Pathbreaking

This was one of the `path-breaking and trendsetting' rulings given by the second Lok Sabha Speaker M. Ananthasayanam Ayyangar.

Mr. Krishna was addressing a meeting after unveiling a life-size bronze statue of Ayyangar at a programme got up by the Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Institute of Public Affairs (MAIPA) here.

He said live coverage of House proceedings, marked by a free-for-all and hurling of chairs, was sending wrong signals to the future generation.

Despite all the "imperfections," the country had done well as a democracy, had had free and relatively fair elections and governments, which worked transparently.

Mr. Krishna said that in the next 25 years, India and China, and not the United States, would emerge as the economic superpowers.

Any country maintaining an eight per cent growth rate for three consecutive years, as India was doing, had the inherent potential to become an economic superpower.

Request to family

A. Eswara Reddy, MAIPA founder-chairman, presiding, referred to his association with Ayyangar and requested his family members to spare some land at Tirupati for constructing a permanent building to perpetuate his memory.

M. Krishnaswamy vice-president and close associate of Ayyangar, visualised MAIPA developing on the lines of Bangalore's Gundappa Institute of Public Affairs.

A. Chakrapani, Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council; B. Karunakara Reddy, TTD Board Chairman; A.P.V.N. Sarma, Executive Officer, TTD; and M. Venkatramana, MLA, participated.

MAIPA secretary M. Jayarama Reddy proposed a vote of thanks.

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