Deploring the frequent disruptions that marked Lok Sabha sittings, Speaker Meira Kumar today said irrefutable logic should replace pandemonium in the House.
Kumar, also the first woman Speaker, said the 15th Lok Sabha provided occasions that were both soothing as the spring and also saw trying moments.
Expressing anguish, she said frequent disruptions leading to adjournments with an entire session being washed out pained her so much that it was difficult to recover from it.
"Such disruptions hit our Parliamentary system like a thunderbolt...I am pained by our failure in that the 15th Lok Sabha has not been as productive as the previous Lok Sabhas," Kumar said.
She emphasised that pandemonium should be replaced with "irrefutable logic and thoughts".
The Speaker noted that a number of unexpected and untoward incidents made the smooth conduct of Lok Sabha difficult.
"It is painful not only for us but for all well wishers of Parliamentary System. The vision of well being of our progressive nation and making it powerful is linked with the better performance of our Lok Sabha," Kumar said.
The outgoing Lok Sabha passed 181 bills including National Food Security Bill, 2013, Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014, and Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011.
The Speaker said 64,781 starred questions were listed of which 637 questions were answered orally...Written replies to the remaining starred questions and 73,161 unstarred questions were laid on the Table of the House.
Referring to discrimination in the society, she said it was a matter of great anguish that caste-based discriminations and atrocities are "still seen in their ugliest form.
