Mumtaz Alam | India Tomorrow
New Delhi, March 27— In the next few weeks, the country will elect the new Lok Sabha, the 17th, and a new national government will be formed at the centre. It’s high time to look back at the performance of people’s representatives in the highest legislature.
Here we are analyzing the performance of only Muslim Members of Lok Sabha.
But first let’s have a look at the top 10 performers in the entire Lok Sabha.
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) on Wednesday released a report on the performance of 16th Lok Sabha and MPs. The report is based on the data obtained and compiled from Lok Sabha website (https://loksabha.nic.in/). For the analysis pertaining to questions asked by the MPs, data has been obtained from the PRS (https://www.prsindia.org/). The report has analyzed the data up to the 16th Session of the 16th Lok Sabha, i.e. 20th December 2018.
In terms of questions asked by MPs in the House, Supriya Sule of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was at No. 1 with highest number of questions – 1181. Supriya, who represented Baramati constituency in Maharashtra, was followed by two Lok Sabha Members of her party at No. 2 and 3 – Dhananjay Mahadik (1170) and Vijaysinh Mohite Patil (1134). There is one each MP from BJP and Congress in the top 10 list. There is no Muslim MP in the top 10. (the list is given below in image form).
Now come to the performance of Muslim MPs.
Among 18 Muslim MPs, Asaduddin Owaisi, third time MP from Hyderabad, was the top performer. While he attended 257 sittings out of the total 312 sittings of the House in five years, he asked 735 questions – the highest number of questions asked any Muslim MP.
AIMIM chief Owaisi was followed by perfume baron and AIUDF chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal who represented Assam’s Dhubri seat in the Lok Sabha. He attended 186 sittings and asked 402 questions.
At No. 3 was Md Badruddoza Khan from Murshidabad in West Bengal. Khan, who is from CPI-M, attended 276 sittings and asked 358 questions.
Performance of Muslim MPs in 16th Lok Sabha
Name
Constituency/State
Party
No. of Qs Asked
No. of Sittings Attended
Badruddin Ajmal
Dhubri – Assam
AIUDF
402
186
Sirajuddin Ajmal
Barpeta – Assam
AIUDF
283
109
Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser
Khagariya – Bihar
LJP
26
273
Sarfaraz Alam
Araria – Bihar
RJD
11 (elected to Lok Sabha in March 2018)
33
Tariq Anwar
Katihar – Bihar
NCP – Cong
149
272
Dr Farooq Abdullah
Srinagar – J&K
NC
13
59
Muzaffar Hussain Baig
Baramulla – J&K
PDP
19
32
ET Mohd Basheer
Ponnani – Kerala
IUML
318
249
Faizal P.P. Mohammad
Lakshadweep
NCP
356
244
A. Anwhar Raajhaa
Ramanathapuram – Tamil Nadu
AIADMK
212
226
Asaduddin Owaisi
Hyderabad – Telangana
AIMIM
735
257
Tabassum Begum
Kairana – Uttar Pradesh
RLD
14 (elected to Lok Sabha in May 2018)
21
A H Khan Chuadhary
Maldah Dakshin – West Bengal
Congress
0
237
Md. Badaruddoza Khan
Murshidabad – West Bengal
CPI-M
358
276
Idris Ali
Basirhat – West Bengal
AITC
17
216
Mohammad Salim
Raiganj – West Bengal
CPI-M
96
265
Mausam Noor
Maldaha Uttar – West Bengal
INC
243
147
Sajda Ahmad
Uluberia – West Bengal
AITC
18 (elected to Lok Sabha in Feb 2018)
29
