Our assemblies are notorious for creating pandemoniums. More often than not the members come to blows thus turning the assemblies into fish or vegetable markets. What happened, however, on last friday in Sindh assembly surpassed all similar previous happenings. It was unique in the sense because a sitting minister addressed a woman MPA in words which were obscene and thus highly objectionable. The role of the women deputy speaker in the matter also left much to be desired. She could have put her foot down and taken a strong action against the errant minister but it seems that her loyalty to her political party got the better of her good sense.
One would have expected that the PPP would show the door to its erring minister by making an example of him but there again petty politics didn’t allow the high command of the party to set up an healthy political precedent.
There is a need on the part of leadership of every political party to hold training workshops of the workers belonging to its different cadres from time to time in which they be given lessons as how to behave with their political adversaries;how to talk to them and address them?
It is a pity that political personalities like Abdul Wali Khan, Mumtaz Khan Daultana, Muft Mahmood, Sardar Shaukat Hayat etc etc no longer make it to our assemblies. Lesser people with limited intelligence, having lack of tolerance, political acumen and farsightedness are becoming the so-called people’s representatives and therein lies the rub.
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