Saturday, 25 April 2009

The Attendance Records Of Our MPs

Prof.S.K.Ananda Thirtha, Member, Mysore Grahakara Parishat writes

The time to vote for our Lok Sabha members is almost upon us. This may be an opportune time to review the performance of representatives from South Karnataka in the last Lok Sabha. There is an organization in Delhi called Parliamentary Research Service which tabulates the performance of all the MPs in the Lok Sabha and the information is available here . The results for C.H. Vijayashankar, M. Shivanna and M.H. Ambareesh in the last Lok Sabha were as follows.

MP's name   Constituency       No. of debates participated  No.of Attendance  questions asked


C.H. Vijayashankar    Mysore   5    34     40%

M. Shivanna               C'nagar  108  414   70%

M.H. Ambareesh        Mandya  0     0       27%

Average of all
Lok Sabha members               30    169     69%

Average of all LS members
from Karnataka                       20    156     56%