NOVICE MPs: Representing People for the first time
written by: Khyati Srivastava (khyati.khush@gmail.com)
The big fat Indian ‘Elections’!
India,
world’s largest democracy! With adult suffrage at 18years of age, India has
voting rights to all Indian citizens. With this power is said to directly
vested in the hands of people of the nation, and they vote to send their
representatives to the Parliament for looking after the governance of the
Nation as a whole.
Recently
India had its General Elections in 9-phases from March to May’2014 to
constitute 16th Lower House of the country. The nation was longing
for change, and this desire to overcome the corrupt & ineffective
governance resulted into the higher turnout as well as clear majority to
‘Modi-led BJP government’. It was definite that BJP will overthrow congress at
the centre, but the magnitude of success was absolutely thundering. Hats-off to
Indian Democratic structure!
There
were so many contestants who fought for the first time, with a very little
ground experience and many made it to the Indian Parliament in their first
attempt. The highest till now was recorded in 1977 General elections after
the Emergency wherein 376-MPs were first time elected. And 2014
elections have given the next highest figure with 315 first-time MPs out of
543. This reflects that the urge for change in people in elections mandate.
Hence, the 16th Lok Sabha has the highest number of debutant MPs
since 1980.
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1. PARTY-wise Debutant Analysis :
Bharatiya Janta Party came to power
promising to meet the need for change and good governance. Hence the ticket
distribution trends however based on winnability factor, comprised of lot of
new & clean faces. And thanks to the ‘Modi-wave’ that made numerous of them
win too. For instance, MP from Baraabanki Uttar Pradesh, Smt Priyanka Singh
Rawat, who joined the party in 2009 only not only got the ticket from BJP but
also won with 2lac lead against Congress stalwart Shri PL Punia. Another
example from UP itself, MP from Mirzapur constituency from Apna Dal party won
the seat being BJP ally for 2014 elections.
However, if the stats are analysed party-wise, then it will be observed that AIADMK has highest percentage of first-timers, followed by Shiv-Sena and then Biju Janta Dal. While highest numbers of first timers are from obviously Bharatiya Janta Party, followed by AIADMK and then Trinamool Congress.
2. STATE-wise Debutants Analysis :
On analysing statistics state-wise,
the topper in the list is obviously the politically most looked upon state,
because of its weightage in numbers. Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of
fresh MPs in the 16th Lok Sabha with 53 debutants to the Parliament
out of 80, followed by Tamil Nadu with 35 new-MPs. The next on charts is Andra
Pradesh and Maharashtra with 29 each new MPs to the Lower House, and then West
Bengal with 22 fresh-faces in the Lok Sabha.
Where, in Uttar Pradesh all come from
BJP & its allies, the credit goes to ‘Modi-wave’. But Tamil Nadu 34 out of
35 come from AIADMK where Amma has played safe by introducing new & clean
faces and fought the ‘Modi-wave’. It is remarkable here that the 35th
new face from Tamil Nadu is backed by BJP-ally, credit again to the persistent
‘Modi-wave’. In Andra the TDP-BJP alliance played upon the same BJP funda to
meet the unrest in people by introducing new & clean faces. Same happened
in Maharashtra with the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance. While in West Bengal, Mamta
Banerjee played well same as Jaya Lalita in Tamil Nadu, with same kind of entry
of BJP as well there. For instance, singer Babul Supriyo’s victory from
Asansol, West Bengal on BJP ticket.
The performance of these first-time Members of Parliament
like actress Kiron Kher, singer Babul Supriyo, etc is questioned but it once
elected to power by clear mandate it cannot be denied they have public-support,
and that people of their constituency wanted them to represent them. After all
it’s Democracy- Government of the people, by the people and for the people!
However, Modi-government is working on it’s funda of ‘minimum government and
maximum governance’ and Prime Minister itself is having constant vigilance
on the House. Keeping all this in mind, Bharatiya Janta Party has even
organised a 3-day long training session ‘Abhyas varg’ for first-time MPs from
27-29th June’2014.
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