Supriya Sule says saris & facials cost goods & services!

Gullible people and media often bemaon at the loss of costly parliamentary time in ventures into the well of the Houses of Parliament by opposition members and the consequent loss of people's money through the exchequer. If you follow the media and that is your idea also, please relax. There is wastage written all over the sessions. Supriya Sule, the young NCP MP from Maharashtra and daughter of Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar, admits the wastage. She says when she meets a fellow-woman MP, the two together do not talk about high politics. Instead they utilize the time usefully in women's ware of saris and facials. Whatever the gravity of the debate, women members talk only about saris. Informing the future of India in the schoolgoing children in Nasik about parliamentary proceedings, Supriya said she would try to hear out the first three speakers of the day. Invariably, the Speaker of the House would be the fourth to monitor what the three MPs have said. If you were to ask what the fourth speaker had said, Supriya said smilingly she won't be able to say much because she won't be able to recollect the matter. Supriya said like girl students, they would also gossip in Parliament. "Suppose I'm talking to a woman MP from Chennai. You might think (from the people's gallery or TV sets) that we are talking seriously about the recent unprecedented floods in Chennai. No way. "To tell the truth, she is asking, `Where did you buy that sari' etc.?' You also gossip like this, no?" Supriya innocently asked the children. It is because of their penchant for saris, `MPs keep making fun of me.' "If there is 50% reservation in Parliament, all the discussions here will be on beauty parlours, facials, saris and cosmetics," they would say. Her retort for the male jibe would be, "Oh what a great discussion you are engaged in ... If at all there is 50% reservation, at least nothing untoward will happen." Although Supriya's confession about parliamentary proceedings maybe on the lighter side, the fact is both the people and people's representatives are not necessarily going to take it that way. The media may have a fresh round of riling about the discussions at public cost. Meanwhile, one has to consider the lot of the Speaker, Sumitra Mahajan. She has to control the uncontrollable and put up with raised voices, and nothing about goods or services for the public.