Most MPs are not respectable: Kejriwal

By ANI |

Kaushambi: Most Members of Parliament (MPs) are not respectable, said Team Anna member and Right to Information (RTI) activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday, adding that he would gladly receive and respond to the privilege notice sent to him by the parliamentarians.
Expressing no remorse or guilt for his so-called March 25 "derogatory" remarks against MPs, Kejriwal maintained that he stood by his claim that 162 parliamentarians, including 14 ministers, were corrupt and rapists.
On Friday, he told media persons that while he respects Parliament and holds it in high esteem, most of its current leaders are not respectable.
"We don't apologise about what we have said about parliamentarians. They (parliamentarians) have failed to answer questions raised by common people. If they want to punish me, they can, but it will not serve the purpose," Kejriwal said.
During the Team Anna censure-related debate held earlier this week, Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav said that while individual criticism was welcome, he could not accept the denigration or degradation of an august institution like parliament.
"I accept that some people, who should not have come, have been elected to the House... But don't forget that this institution also fights its war against corruption," he said, adding Parliament was the only institution that has sent its members to jail on corruption charges.
Yadav asked Speaker Meira Kumar "to protect the sanctity of this House" and "don't let people criticise this institution".
"Don't let people undermine this House," he said as other members thumped their desks in agreement.
Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party demanded that Kejriwal should be called to the House and asked to explain his behaviour.
Many Members of Parliament asked Speaker Meira Kumar to move a resolution condemning Team Anna's unsavoury remarks made during their renewed anti-corruption agitation at Jantar Mantar last Sunday.
The censure motion, if adopted and voted by a majority in the House, would have meant a severe criticism of Team Anna members with them being named, but they would not have to be called to the House as under a privilege motion. (ANI)

Why are our MPs led by Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav, Lalu Yadav, Digvijay Singh and a horde of other making a laughing stock of themselves..They should answer the simple question whether 142 MPs claimed by Kejriwal have criminal charges against them.
If yes, then, they are treated as criminals unless they prove themselves innocent.
If they feel they are innocent, let the resign their seats and expedite their cases in courts so that they can claim to be innocent.
Unfortunately, our legal system is thus that these same MPs delay their cases which prolong for years on end and in the meantime they claim to be innocent.
The legal requirement for persons in public life should be changed.
They should prove themselves innocent.
Mulayam should not talk.
A criminal by the name of Raja Bhaiyya who has umpteen charges against him has been made the minister of Jails.
How ironic.
And this man, Mulayam, calls Anna and his team criminals?