46% of LS MPs attended over 90% of budget session: Study
A study by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative reveals that less than half of Lok Sabha MPs attended 90% or more of the recent budget session. Smaller political parties demonstrated higher average attendance rates compared to larger parties like the BJP and Congress.
Why it matters
Attendance records serve as a key metric for parliamentary accountability and the functional efficiency of the legislative process in India.
NEW DELHI: As parties gear-up for taking up a wide range of issues during Parliament’s monsoon session — expected to be fiery in light of Ram temple and NEET-UG paper leak issues — the presence of MPs in both Houses is most crucial. An analysis of attendance record of the previous budget session, which ended in April, by NGO Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative shows that it is the smaller parties — with a handful of MPs — that have the highest average attendance record figures.Overall in Lok Sabha, as many as 101 MPs had signed the attendance register for all 31 sittings of the budget session — less than a quarter, or just about 21% of the 483 MPs whose attendance record was publicly available.In terms of average attendance record of parties in LS, RLP — that has one MP (Hanuman Beniwal from Nagaur — and RLD — that has…
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