Parliament or club?

 The basic salary is Rs. 150,000, honorarium is Rs. 12,700, assistance allowance is Rs. 5,000, office repair allowance is Rs. 8,000, telephone is Rs. 10,000 and ad hoc relief is Rs. 15,000. A total of two lakh seventy thousand rupees per month. Travel vouchers of Rs. 300,000 or cash of Rs. 90,000, 25 business class return tickets, daily and housing allowance are in addition.

This amount of allowances will continue to be received three days before and three days after the meeting. If the Honorable Member of the Assembly attends the meeting of the Standing Committees, then these three allowances are given to him once again. If the meeting of the committee is one day, then they get this allowance two days before and two days after the meeting. There are allowances for air travel, rail travel, or road travel.

Distinguished members also attend convention or standing committee meetings and receive convention allowances. In addition to the convention allowance, they are also provided with official transport. 1300 cc car is provided and 360 liters of petrol is also provided. Such huge privileges and salaries are given so that the servants of the people can attend the legislature and make such legislation which will make the life of the people easier, the dear homeland on the path of development and we can live with our heads held high.

But the saddest thing is when the highly paid and privileged employees who call themselves the servants of the people and their chief servants, when they come on duty, look at the Aiwan-e-Machli Bazaar. Presents Those who are fed on a hefty salary push each other, dirty insults are exchanged, shoes are waved, desks are replaced by the Constitution of Pakistan.

According to newspaper reports, in the meeting held just one day before Kashmir Solidarity Day, vulgar words were used without considering each other's status. The resolution of Kashmir Solidarity Day also fell victim to this riot. The next day, on February 5, when our esteemed leaders expressed solidarity with the Kashmiri people, the Kashmiri people will be asking, brothers, even after 72 years of independence, Why is passion missing? Why do you keep fighting among yourselves? Why do you call each other traitors? You are free, why in a free country someone is killed, someone is deported.

The question is, is this the first time this has happened? If we look at the past, it is clear that we have seen such scenes most of the time before. But pushing each other down, pushing the honorable member of the assembly like Sergeant at Arms Naveed Qamar with the mic, the speaker ordering the sergeant to get this honorable member out and the speaker's action in the sergeant's security Keep in mind, such scenes were rare.

An unofficial source claims that according to the 2017 Assembly budget, the average cost of a one-day session of parliament is more than Rs 25 million. How much will it be today? Can be estimated. In this era of economic woes, millions of rupees are spent on a one-day meeting so that first Murad Saeed can put the backs of the boats and then other esteemed members can be ghazal singers in a style that has become obsolete in the bazaar.

According to Imran Khan, since the last assembly was a product of rigging, he had the lowest attendance. But now that he is prime minister, he has attended only six of the first 34 meetings. The legislature seems to be a club of well-to-do people, where members come for a moment to have fun and return to each other.

The collective consciousness of the parliament is such that the leaders of the various parties make a decision and the members perform their official duties after ratification. If decisions are to be made by a few leaders and sitting somewhere outside the parliament, there is no debate or deliberation in the parliament but only the support of these decisions, then why such a heavy parliament?

There is a need to ensure the supremacy, dignity and respect of Parliament. Disagreements should be expressed in a polite manner and not in the style of Jhela. If we do not change ourselves, then the day is not far when we will show solidarity with Kashmiris and they will ask us to change Parliament if we are loved, brother