Dhankhar: Parliament will be irrelevant if it fails to be centre of dialogue

Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day on Thursday amid uproar over Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks on B R Ambedkar during a debate on the Constitution in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

Speaking to probationers of the Indian Forest Service at the Parliament House Annexe, Dhankhar said, “I have no doubt if Parliament does not become a nerve centre of dialogue, debate and discussion, if issues of the people are not adverted in Parliament, because that is the call of environment in democracy, then Parliament will slide into irrelevance.”

He appealed to all political parties to preserve the “environment” of the legislature.

“People work very hard during elections to choose their representatives. They do it with a dream, with an object that these people will deliver for us our aspirations, will help realise our ambitions by engaging in policy making. If these temples are disturbed, disrupted, there’s no dialogue, no discussion, then I can say it is antithetical to our national value system,” he said.