Let Modi improve Parliament by helping the Opposition oppose | The Indian Express

Let Modi improve Parliament by helping the Opposition oppose | The Indian Express

Written by Meghnad Desai |Updated: July 7, 2019 7:31:02 am

Meghnad Desai loves to cook, watch and write about old Bollywood movies and shuttles between London, Delhi and Goa. He pursues controversies on economics, history and anything else which catches his attention. He is also a British parliamentarian sitting in the House of Lords. He has written over 25 books, over 200 articles in learned journals and hundreds of newspaper columns in UK and India.

Let Modi improve Parliament by helping the Opposition oppose

During the first decade of Parliament, opposition MPs used to implore Nehru to do more to get the Opposition to be effective. Maybe Narendra Modi should do more to help the Opposition survive.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sumitra Mahajan and Rahul Gandhi. Express photo: Anil Sharma/File)

I am still getting emails from Jet Airways about the rewards awaiting me for my loyalty. The firm has gone bust but the emails go on. This is like the Congress party. Rahul Gandhi has resigned as president and said he will not change his mind. But his party has taken its time to recognise this. The Congress goes on living in a limbo, between death and life.