Mangalore, June 17: Of the 224 MLAs elected to the Legislative Assembly, 60 MLAs sat through the Assembly proceedings in the last four years without raising a single issue.
The 13th Assembly period that began in May 2008 consisted of 13 sessions. The BJP government has conducted only 140 days of Assembly proceedings in four years while the rules state that 60 days of proceedings must take place every year.
10 MLAs sat through the proceedings for four long years content with just one question. One among them is Yogish Bhat, who was later appointed Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. Others in the list include Bharamagowda Kage (BJP), Paranna Eshanna Munawalli (BJP), A Narayanaswamy (BJP), M V Nagaraju (BJP), Ramanna Lamaani (BJP), Seema Masooti (BJP), B Suresh Gowda (BJP), D Sudhakar (Independent) and Varthur Prakash (Independent).
27 MLAs fall under the category of elected representatives who asked less than 10 questions during the proceedings.
However, Congress MLA U T Khader tops the list as the MLA who asked the maximum number of questions during the proceedings with 383 queries. Next in the list is Ishwar Bheemanna Khandre, the Congress MLA from Bhalki with 359 questions followed by N A Haris, Congress MLA of Shantinagar, Bangalore, with 320 questions.
26 MLAs have asked more than 100 questions. Among them are 15 from Congress, 7 from JDS and 4 from BJP.
Among the MLAs who did not ask a single question are Bellary MLAs Karunakara Reddy, Somashekhara Reddy, Sreeramulu and Suresh Babu. Others in the list include K S Eshwarappa who is also the state president of BJP, Chandrakanth Bellad, Aruna Patil Revur. B S Yeddyurappa also did not ask a single question after stepping down from the Chief Minister's post.
Source: Vijaya Karnataka
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