With Parliament marred by repeated disruptions and ‘unbecoming’ behaviour of MPs, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee favoured introduction of devices such as 'recall' to ensure accountability of the members."It is time for us to look for devices such as 'recall' to ensure accountability of the members of democratic institutions at all levels, before the common man gets totally disillusioned with the prevailing system," he said at a plenary in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in New Delhi.The 'power to recall' was based on the maxim that elected members of the representative bodies should be accountable and answerable to their constituents through their term of office, he told the plenary on ‘Right to Recall Members of Parliament for Enforcing Greater Accountability of Parliamentary to the People’.Chatterjee said that it was a matter of great concern that, of late, in many democracies, people's perception of the Parliament was changing and they were seen to be greatly ‘disillusioned’ with the very relevance of parliamentary system."Sometimes, the legislators are found involved in the activities which are unbecoming of the members of representative bodies and which tend to tarnish the prestige and image of the representative institutions," he said.
