As Haryana goes to polls on October 21, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Haryana Election Watch (HEW) have showcased the performance of MLAs of the 13th Legislative Assembly.
Of 174 bills, 170 were passed in the State Assembly. While overall, there is not much mismatch between the number of sittings of the house planned and held, there are MLAs who did not fare well.
Of 91 legislators analysed by the poll watchdogs, only 75 have asked questions. If asking questions is the parameter of performance, Congress MLA from Tosham constituency Kiran Choudhry has fared on top with 225 starred questions.
The Congress leader is closely followed by Indian National Lok Dal's Naina Singh Chautala from the Dabwali constituency with 180 starred questions (admitted). In fact in the top ten performer, in terms of asking questions, there is only one MLA from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — Prem Lata.
But there are 16 MLAs who haven’t bothered to ask even a single question, be it about the state or raising issues pertaining to their respective constituencies. Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Congress communications chief Randeep Singh Surjewala, Congress MLAs Raghuvir Singh Kadian and Anand Singh Dangi, BJP’s Bimla Chaudhary are among them.