Hon.
Speaker Sir, I would like to congratulate you on your
successful election as the Speaker for the second time. I would like to
congratulate you on behalf of the entire Opposition. Sir, this House
represents the voice of India’s people, and you are the final arbiter of
their voice. Of course, the Government has the political power but the
Opposition also represents the voice of India’s people. In the 18th
Lok Sabha, the Opposition represents significantly more the voice of the Indian
people than it did last time. Sir, the
Opposition would like to assist you in doing your100 work. We would like the House to
function smoothly. It is very important that cooperation happens on the basis
of120 trust. It is very important
that the voice of the Opposition is allowed to be represented in this House.
I am confident that you will allow us to represent our voice, allow us to
speak, and allow us to represent the voice of the people of India. Mr. Speaker
sir, the question is not how efficiently the House is run. The question is how
much of India’s voice is being allowed to be heard in this House. So,
the idea200 that
you can run the House efficiently by silencing the voice of the Opposition is a
non-democratic idea. This election has
shown that the people of India expect the Opposition to defend the Constitution
of this country. We are confident240 that
by allowing the Opposition to speak, by allowing us to represent the people of
India, you will do your duty of defending the Constitution of India. I would
like to once again congratulate you Mr. Speaker Sir, and also, all the Members of
this House, who have won in election.
Sir, I congratulate you on your becoming Speaker300 of the House for the second
time. My first entry in this Parliament was in the 12th
Lok Sabha. I have gathered a long experience. My impression is that if there
is no Leader of the360
Opposition, the House does not run properly. We are glad that our country has
now got a Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament. Sir, the
parliamentary democratic system depends upon secularism, communal harmony and
unity of the country. It is my firm belief that somehow the floor of
the House always depends on the attitude of the Treasury Benches. So
far as the400
parliamentary democratic process is concerned, the House belongs to the
Opposition. This attitude is to be adopted by the ruling party itself.
Sir, you may have your good wishes and your good intention. But
sometimes, you are to bow down to the ruling party’s pressure. In the 17th
Lok Sabha, suspension of 150 MPs in one day has happened in this House. It
is not desirable. The hon. Prime Minister has mentioned about the
introduction and passing of so480
many Bills in the House. But it has also happened that so many Bills
had been passed without any discussion.500
I would humbly submit to you that let some positive decisions be taken so that
the Bills be tabled and discussed in a proper manner. We, from the Opposition
side, assure you that we will extend all sorts of cooperation so
that the House can run properly and smoothly. The Opposition has now got a
better strength in this House. So, it should not be the attitude
of the Treasury Benches to neglect the Opposition. I would request the hon. Prime Minister and
the Treasury Benches to come up and cooperate so that the House runs smoothly
and the country600 of 140
crores of people can actually get some guidance and some hopes that Parliament
can contribute for the welfare and benefit of the country. This
should be our motto. We want to see that the 18th Lok Sabha runs
smoothly and creates a history of reaching its target by running smoothly in
the interest of the nation while keeping secularism and communal harmony
intact. Our Constitution should be upheld and the situation should never
ever be allowed to be disturbed.
Hon. Speaker, Sir, it is a great occasion to felicitate you
once again in this Parliament. On
behalf of700 my party in
Parliament, I wholeheartedly congratulate you on this occasion. Sir, you
might have been elected on the lotus720
symbol; the lotus always floats in the water but it would not allow the
water to stick. It is a natural
thing. Likewise, you might have been
elected by my BJP friends but hereafter there should be no politics
between you and this House. You do not
have any colour also. There is no
colour at all. You have to treat the
Opposition as well as the Ruling Party in the same way. So, I would only
like to request800 you to be
kindly impartial and unbiased.
Thank you.
Sir, on behalf of the Telugu Desam Party, five crore people
of Andhra Pradesh, and on my own behalf, I congratulate you on
being elected as the Speaker of this House.840 It is a rare opportunity as a Speaker
being elected and nominated for the second time. There were five members before you, and two
were from Andhra Pradesh. All these five
members were nominated and elected for two terms but somehow, they did not
finish their five-year term but you have this opportunity to complete this
ten-year term. In the900 last five years, there were some groundbreaking
things that happened, starting from moving from the Old Parliament Building to
the New Parliament Building. There were
new Bills being passed like abrogation of Article 370, the Triple Talaq
Bill etc. You have also encouraged the first-time Members who came to this
House to rise up and speak on various issues in960
Question Hour. You have given us opportunities to ask supplementary questions,
and during the Zero Hour also you encouraged us to speak as much as possible.
The digitalisation of the whole proceedings along with the research
facilities that are available1000
in library has been vastly improved in the last five years. I hope, it will continue in the next five
years in your second term.
With regard to the Question Hour,
the vigour with which you used to conduct it, you used to make sure that
most of the Questions get answered in this House. You used to tell the Ministers to be crisp
and answer in a pointed way. You also
used to give the Members enough time to1080
ask their questions. I hope that
tradition will continue. I also remember
that during the times of COVID when everyone1100
was worried how this House would function, you made sure that it proceeded in a
safe way. You had also ensured that most
of the Members could express their views and raise the problems of their
States. I wish you best of times in
running the House. I assure you that my
party will support you in the smooth running of this House in the next five
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