NEW DELHI: After the banning of certain words by the Indian parliament as 'Un parliamentary', an advisory now comes up banning pamphlets, placards, and leaflets in the parliament.
The advisory of the parliament reads, "As per established convention, no literature, questionnaire, pamphlets, Press notes, leaflets or any matter printed or otherwise should be distributed without prior permission".
After the uproar by the oppositions over the non-use of commonly used words in the parliament and labelling them as 'Un parliamentary', the Lok Sabha Secretariat has now issued an advisory banning all the members to use any pamphlets, leaflets or placards in the parliament before the monsoon session starts.
The advisory of the Lok Sabha in detail mentions in the advisory that," As per established convention, no literature, questionnaire, pamphlets, Press notes, leaflets or any matter printed or otherwise should be distributed without the prior permission of Hon'ble Speaker within the precincts of the House. Placards are also strictly prohibited inside the Parliament House Complex". This advisory must be taken and understood crystal clearly that it has been issued in a period where all the opposition parties were denied permission to protest and hold demonstrations within the parliament premises and it created massive dis- agreements and resistance from the opposition's side.
The advisory that had been issued as notification to the members of parliament, mentions "Members cannot use the precincts of the House for any demonstration, dharna strike, fast, or for the purpose of performing any religious ceremony". The advisory has been issued after it was seen in the recent past that many opposition members were holding their leaflets and protesting for their rights and democratically objected against the ruling government's certain non- agreeable bills in their parliament seats, and it caused pique for both the house's chair.
The circular issued reads as "Members cannot use the precincts of the House for any demonstration, dharna strike, fast, or for the purpose of performing any religious ceremony. Kind cooperation of members is solicited".
This rigorous move by the Lok Sabha's advisory has created much hype among the opposition members, with Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh taking to Twitter to protest against this call.
Also, documents have been made public to learn that this is not the first time a circular of this kind has been brought up. So sources mention, "Many such circulars that were issued during the UPA regime are in the public domain. Of those one was brought out on December 2, 2013, and the second one on February 3, 2014".
The words that were just recently been banned by the parliament include corruption, corrupt, jumlajeevi, tanashah, dictator, black, khalistaani etc. This previously released booklet of advisory made opposition go rage over the Lok Sabha Secretariat as terming them as 'Un parliamentary' and expressions of the opposition in both the houses, that could be used in the upcoming monsoon session of the parliament as if a word like 'Andolanjeevi' is pious enough and doesn't hurt the sentiments of every person fighting for their rights, the emotional tolerance and may be more of a 'Parliamentary' word. But who decides, for anyone who rules can define something as 'un-parliamentary' for them.
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