All about MPs

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Our honourable members of parliament (MPs) often do not turn up in sufficient number in the House and create a quorum crisis making parliament dysfunctional. A section of them enjoy all the benefits, perks and privileges of MPs but boycott parliament month after month. Others spend a great deal of their time hurling vulgar language at their opponents and vice versa. They even roll up their sleeves and come near to fisticuffs. The whole nation was recently stupefied spectators to such scenes of MPs about to engage in fisticuffs while prior to that they crossed all limits in indecent use of language.
They are supposed to be the legislators but the laws are really drafted in the law ministry and they only make a motion of approving them without even understanding well what they endorse in many cases. They enjoy duty free cars, lump sum monetary benefits, spend far in excess of what they are entitled to as telephone and entertainment bills without ever paying up for the same. Indeed, the honourable MPs do most dishonorable and unconscionable things. They live off the fattest fruits of the lands hardly discharging any useful service to the people.
But do we find any enough reactions to such immorality demanding their tight accountability ?
Farid Ahmed
Gulshan, Dhaka