The common for asking questions is 53 and for participating in debate is 12 per MP.

The BJP MPs who didn’t ask any questions within the final one yr are—former Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad (Patna Sahib, Bihar), Radha Mohan Singh (East Champaran, Bihar), Mahesh Sharma (Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh), Sakshi Maharaj (Unnao, Uttar Pradesh), Udayanraje Bhonsle (Satara, Maharashtra) and Abhijeet Gangopadhyay (Tamluk, West Bengal) and Rajpalsinh Jadav (Panchmahal, Gujarat).

Udayanraje Bhonsle, a Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj descendant and five-time MP,  and Sakshi Maharaj additionally discover themselves within the listing of 9 BJP MPs who haven’t participated in any debate on this Lok Sabha up to now.

The opposite names embrace Union minister Narayan Rane (Ratnagiri–Sindhudurg, Maharashtra); Soumendu Adhikari (Kanthi, West Bengal), brother of Suvendu Adhikari; Jyotirmay Singh Mahato (Purulia, West Bengal); Shivmangal Singh Tomar (Morena, Madhya Pradesh); Kali Charan Singh (Chatra, Jharkhand); Mahendra Singh Solanki (Dewas, Madhya Pradesh); and Chintamani Mahraj (Surguja, Chhattisgarh).

Anita Nagar, a first-time MP from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh who has requested one query up to now, informed ThePrint, “I didn’t get the possibility to ask any query regardless of placing questions a number of instances. My questions didn’t discover a slot in Lok Sabha.”

“I’m easy employee. In Parliament, there are huge leaders they usually often converse,” Shivmangal Singh Tomar, first-time MP (Morena, Madhya Pradesh)

Second-time MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, who has not participated in a single debate up to now, informed ThePrint, “I obtained two-three possibilities of taking part in a debate. However at any time when I rose to talk, both the time allotted to my celebration obtained over or there was a din within the Home that didn’t enable me to talk. I used to be supposed to talk throughout the Price range Session, however earlier than I may begin, time ran out and the finance minister began her reply.”

Shivmangal Singh Tomar, the first-time MP from Morena, stated he didn’t take part in any debate as a result of he’s a “easy employee” and “huge leaders” often converse in Parliament.

“I converse in my space Morena at any time when the celebration assigns me to talk on any subject. I’m a easy employee. In Parliament, there are huge leaders they usually often converse. That’s the reason I focus in my constituency relatively than talking in Parliament,” he stated.

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16 MPs document 100% attendance

Sixteen BJP MPs recorded one hundred pc attendance on this Lok Sabha up to now. However the document of another MPs has not been that spectacular. Mathura MP Hema Malini, for instance, clocked 40 p.c attendance, a lot beneath the general common of 87 p.c. Nevertheless, the actor-turned-politician requested 16 questions and took part in 4 debates, not like Udayanraje Bhonsle who neither requested any query nor participated in any debate. 

At 60 p.c, he additionally has the second worst attendance document amongst BJP MPs. General, 42 BJP MPs have recorded an attendance proportion beneath the common of 87. 

A few of them are—Narayan Rane (67 p.c), Berhampur MP Pradeep Panigrahi (68 p.c), Bhojpuri actor and MP Ravi Kishan (69 p.c), Chitradurg MP Govind Kajrol (73 p.c), Kurukshetra MP Naveen Jindal (74 p.c), Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya (76 p.c), Bastar MP Mahesh Kashyap (76 p.c) and former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa’s son Raghavendra (77 p.c).

BJP leaders who clocked one hundred pc attendance embrace outstanding MP Nishikant Dubey (Godda), Jagdambika Pal (Basti), Ramvir Singh Bidhuri (South Delhi), Assam BJP president Dilip Saikia (Darrang-Udalguri), Satish Kumar Gautam (Aligarh), Shankar Lalwani (Indore), Janardan Mishra (Rewa) and Damodar Agarwal (Bhilwara).

Former Union minister and Akola MP Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre and Jamshedpur MP Bidyut Baran Mahato are additionally within the listing as are Khagen Murmu (Malda Uttar), Pradan Baruah (Lakhimpur, Assam), Amarsing Tisso (Diphu, Assam) Mitesh Rameshbhai Patel (Anand, Gujarat), Janardhan Singh Sigriwal (Maharajganj, BIhar) and Manna Lal Rawat (Udaipur, Gujarat).

Asking questions 

Thirty-one BJP MPs have requested greater than 100 questions throughout periods previously one yr, which is nearly double the common of 53.

First-time MP Praveen Patel, who represents the Phulpur Lok Sabha constituency, is the highest performer with 160 questions. Seasoned parliamentarian and multi-term MP Bhartruhari Mahtab is an in depth second with 152 questions and Smita Wagh 150 questions.

Jamshedpur MP Bidyut Baran Mahato has requested 148 questions, and he says there isn’t a “artwork” on this. “Since questions are chosen by way of a lottery system, if you wish to elevate the issues in your constituency, there are a lot of methods to draw the eye of officers and the federal government. After we journey within the constituency, folks elevate many issues and we attempt to handle them by elevating them in Parliament. You must discover out a solution to elevate points,” he informed ThePrint.

Former Union minister P. P. Chaudhary, who can be the chairpersons of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on one nation one election, requested 142 questions, whereas Gorakhpur MP Ravi Kishan requested 138 questions regardless that his attendance was simply 69 p.c.

First-time MP Naba Charan Majhi (Rairangpur, Odisha) requested 136 questions, whereas Lumbaram Choudhary (Jalore-Sirohi, Maharashtra) requested 135 questions. Dilip Salkia requested 131 questions, Manoj Tiwari 126 questions and Nishikant Dubey 123.

Argumentative MPs 

The 74-year-old Jagdambika Pal, who was additionally the chairman of the JPC on the Waqf Invoice, participated in 75 debates towards the common of simply 12. Pal clocked one hundred pc attendance in all of the 4 periods of this Lok Sabha up to now.  

“Since I’ve been MLA, I understand how to utilise meeting or parliament’s time to boost folks’s points. That’s the reason my questions determine in Lok Sabha each second or third day,” MP Smita Wagh who requested 150 questions.

Nishikant Dubey is second by way of participation as he offered arguments in 42 debates, Dilip Sakia in 39, Bhartruhari Mahtab in 31 debates, and P.P. and Sudhir Gupta (MP from Mandsour) in 30 debates. Smita Wagh and Malvika Devi (Kalahandi, Odisha) participated in 28 debates.

Jagdambika Pal, who represents Basti within the Home, stated, “Typically I attain Lucknow from my constituency within the morning after which take a flight to Delhi to succeed in Parliament in time. Parliamentarians have big duty in direction of folks, in direction of their events they usually all the time must be on their toes to fulfil their tasks.”

Smita Wagh, with 96 p.c attendance and 150 questions, stated, “Since I’ve been an MLA, I understand how to utilise meeting or Parliament’s time to boost folks’s points. That’s the reason my questions determine in Lok Sabha each second or third day.”

How do ex-CMs & celebrities fare

The BJP fielded a number of former chief ministers within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, and 5 of them emerged victorious, Madhya Pradesh’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Karnataka’s Basavaraj Bommai amongst them. Chouhan has been inducted within the Union cupboard as a minister so he doesn’t must mark attendance. 

Bommai has recorded 83 p.c attendance, just under the common of 87 p.c, requested 75 questions and took part in two debates. One other former Karnataka chief minister, Jagadish Shettar, has recorded 85 p.c attendance, requested 85 questions and brought half in a single debate. 

Former Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb has a good attendance of 93 p.c. He requested 72 questions and took part in solely six debates. Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat recorded 96 p.c attendance. He requested 59 questions and took part in six debates.

Amongst movie star MPs, Arun Govil, who performed the position of Lord Ram in Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan, has recorded 92 p.c attendance. He requested 81 questions and took part in 13 debates. His efficiency on these parameters are significantly better than Kangana Ranaut and Hema Malini’s, who’ve attendance percentages of 79 and 40, respectively.

Kangana requested 73 questions and took part in 9 debates, whereas Hema Malini requested 16 questions and took part in solely 4 debates. 

(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)

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