THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Shashi Tharoor MP, has made a suggestion to hold the sittings of both the Houses of Parliament outside New Delhi. Tharoor’s suggestion, which is bound to make a drastic change in the grassroots-level perception on the functioning of Parliament, was made in a letter addressed to the Lok Sabha Speaker on Wednesday.He requested to announce a decision in this regard during the proposed function, being organised in Parliament on May 13 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of the first Lok Sabha. In the letter, Tharoor proposed to hold five days of sitting of Parliament during the next monsoon session at a suitable location other than New Delhi.He has also suggested that Bengaluru would be the ideal place to hold such a sitting.“One of the apparent reason for the propagation of misconceptions about Parliament and its members is that they suffer from a ‘disconnect’ with the people who elected them to Parliament, he said.He said that the idea of holding Parliament sittings outside Capital was discussed in the past, but for various reasons it was not implemented. The reasons are not valid in an era of advanced technology and strong infrastructure, he said.
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