In making our democracy more relevant, it is very necessary to address most of the public/ governance problems on the floor of all three tier legislative houses. Second method is empowering all parliamentary/ legislative committees to interact with the civil society, mass media, academics, research organizations and experts in order to finalize any bills or amending any bills. To my mind, the third option may be making members of parliament/ legislative houses/ councils more accountable and responsible in district/ local administration . MP must be meaningfully involved in the district administration and MLAs in Tehsil-Subdivision/ Block administration. It will reduce the ill affect of bureaucracy as well as making democrat more accountable and responsible in their respective constituencies. Last , but not the least the supremacy of legislatives bodies lot much depend over the capability and quality of the elected members. We have not kept any eligibility criteria for the contesting candidates whether for the parliament election or state legislative election or for the local body elections. In the name of common men's democracy we allowed even uneducated people to contest, but we forget this point that democracy is not for representation only rather quality representation that is being articulated by wisdom, if not a very high academic education, but it certainly requires public leadership quality which contains good education, conscious thinking, broader horizon of thinking, awareness regarding masses' problems, good understanding of public governance and etc. In absence of these qualities it is sorry to say, we have such a poor state of legislative bodies in our democracy , which are being used as an organ in just a formality.
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