Ruling party abandoning the JS!

We have editorialised this aberrant parliamentary behaviour on the part of the ruling party MPs saying in so many words that even the disparaging opposition boycott of parliament appears in a mellowed light in the face of the BNP MPs' flippant keeping away from JS sessions. Newspapers have been replete with reports of the quorum crises leading to a palpably shocking realisation among the electorate that the elections were an exercise in futility. How much one wished that these would din good sense into the ears of the MPs.

Alas, far from a remission of the irresponsibility syndrome, one sees only a newer manifestation of the same! In the latest case, the Speaker apparently heeded the BNP lawmakers' request to adjourn the session on what we would call a pretext that they are busy attending programmes in their constituencies. In truth, can there be any bigger task for the MPs than making themselves available for the parliament sessions? It is supremely ironical that when enhancement of privileges and perks is on the agenda, MPs show a great enthusiasm for averting any quorum crisis. This is patently unconscionable, let alone their overall perfunctory attitude to parliament despite drawing generous salaries and allowances.

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The tragedy is, even in the eye of the ruling party, the parliament has lost its importance, pathetically with two more years of it to go. What could be a worse indictment on the state of parliamentary democracy in the country?