Cong MLAs8217; performance on floor below the mark

8220;Each legislator gets hardly 3-4 minutes to speak inside the House. Party MLAs and MLCs should learn to impress others in that short period and also prove their point,8221;advised Deshmukh while addressing the legislators. Senior Congress leader and former speaker, Dighe, dwelt at length on the rights and devices of the legislators.

The camp is first of its kind for the Congress legislators. The first party to organise such training camps for its legislators was Shiv Sena. The camp turned out to be beneficial for the Sena MLAs who pushed the DF government to corner on several issues during the first two sessions of the legislature after it took over. At the same time, the peformance of the treasury benches was marred by the lack of floor coordination and inexperience of several first time MLAs of the party.

But not all Congress MLAs were impressed with today8217;s brainstorming session. 8220;For one full year they had forgotten this and suddenly felt the need for training us as if we do not know anything,8221;complained an MLA from Mumbai. The attendance was low, he pointed out but added sarcastically,8220;It was obvious. Half of our MLAs are ministers! They need not attend these sermons!!8221;