Politicians think more about themselves: Karia Munda

Lok Sabha Deputy speaker Karia Munda said he feels leaders these days are more concerned about themselves than about the society and people.

?Leaders are interested to coverage of media for their own welfare and they are not concerned for their own country,? Munda said at the release of a report named ?Representatives at Work?, prepared by an NGO called ‘Mass for Awareness’ on the working of the Lok Sabha MPs for the years of 2010-2011.

The organization under his awareness campaign ‘Vote For India “prepared the report for second consecutive. In this report the working of MPs has been compared to two-year term

Report analysed the working of MPs on the basis of their presence at Parliament, exit, partnership, MPLADS and other aspects was judged in their age, occupation, education and some other criteria.

Munda said: ?The leaders till seventies purely working for their country and society, but now all the politicians are working for their own welfare.?

He also advocated for compulsory voting but clarified that this is his personal opinion.

He said: ?While the general public could not learn the importance of their vote, we would not expect a change in the country and politics.?

Munda said that the general public should get aware of their power of voting and their rights provided by Constitution and this will make the leaders change and improve their own workings.

The Lok Sabha deputy speaker openly said that today barely 65 per cent of polling occurred during the elections and a political party fail to find a more than 30-35 percent of vote. The political party only got 30 per cent on the vote make the majority government.

He said that all the misconducts in the country caused due to the ‘public’ inactivity and therefore no good people to wish to join the politics. he said when the general public aware about their power of vote and their rights provided by constitution, the leaders not conscious about to improve their own working.

Munda said the Constitution provides the advantage to the peoples to make their own party so many such parties are floating in the country and they are running only by one and two members.

“If these trends went continuous our one billion country surely will have million parties in near future. We should stop these practices in any cost,” said Munda.