{"id":195761,"date":"2022-07-15T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=195761"},"modified":"2022-07-15T19:43:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:13:35","slug":"its-what-mps-do-list-of-unparliamentary-words-is-not-such-a-big-deal-quality-of-law-making-is-the-real-house-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-what-mps-do-list-of-unparliamentary-words-is-not-such-a-big-deal-quality-of-law-making-is-the-real-house-test\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s what MPs do: List of unparliamentary words is not such a big deal. Quality of law-making is the real House test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>It\u2019s what MPs do: List of unparliamentary words is not such a big deal. Quality of law-making is the real House test<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>15th Jul 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS2 &#8211; Parliament<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Parliamentary debates and related issues<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:\u00a0 A list of \u2018unparliamentary\u2019 words and phrases, published by the Lok Sabha secretariat, saw opposition leaders accusing the government of trying to gag them.<\/p>\n<h5>Why the accusations hold no ground?<\/h5>\n<p>Publishing such words has been happening since 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>The list is not a diktat, it\u2019s based on rulings by presiding officers in parliamentary and assembly proceedings in India and Commonwealth countries.<\/p>\n<p>And none of the words is banned.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding officers will expunge remarks they deem unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there are easy workarounds for many words listed as unparliamentary.<\/p>\n<h5>Way forward<\/h5>\n<p>Parliamentary secretariats should not entirely take a mechanical approach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> House discussions must also reflect the liveliness of the politics in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>MPs can also help by reminding themselves that the five minutes of news television coverage they get for using unparliamentary words do nothing for their legislative career.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, a Parliament is judged by the quality of its debate and its law-making.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s needed in greater measure is extensive deliberations in smaller parliamentary committees and deeper House debates on complex issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is based on the article \u201cIt\u2019s what MPs do: List of unparliamentary words is not such a big deal. Quality of law-making is the real House test\u201d published in The Times of India on 15th Jul 22. Syllabus: GS2 &#8211; Parliament Relevance: Parliamentary debates and related issues News:\u00a0 A list of \u2018unparliamentary\u2019&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-what-mps-do-list-of-unparliamentary-words-is-not-such-a-big-deal-quality-of-law-making-is-the-real-house-test\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s what MPs do: List of unparliamentary words is not such a big deal. Quality of law-making is the real House test<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-195761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704735678},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}