Kolkata: BJP MP from West Bengal’s Balurghat, Dr. Sukanta Majumdar, has asked the most number of questions in the seventeenth Lok Sabha, revealed a report compiled by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW). Majumdar, who is also the party’s West Bengal chief, has asked 596 questions. Interestingly, among the top ten spots in the list, the BJP has four MPs.
Sukanta Majumdar was closely followed by BJP’s MP from Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsour who asked 586 questions. Dr. Sukanta Majumdar is an accomplished academic with a PhD in Botany from the University of North Bengal. He was appointed as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal on September 20, 2021.
Bidyut Baran Mahato of the BJP’s Jamshedpur MP in Jharkhand asked 580 questions, grabbing a close third spot in the list. Featuring seventh on the list was BJP MP Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre from Maharashtra’s Dhule who asked 556 questions.
Partywise, the BJP was followed by Shiv Sena. Three MPs of the Shiv Sena who featured in the list are Shrirang Appa Barne of Maharashtra’s Maval who took the fourth spot after asking 579 questions.
With 553 questions, the party’s Kolhapur MP Sanjay Sadashivrao Mandlik appeared at the ninth spot in the list, while Gajanan Chandrakant Kirtikar, Shiv Sena’s Mumbai North West MP grabbed the tenth spot after asking 531 questions.
While six of the MPs who appeared in the list are from Maharashtra, a third party from the state whose leaders appeared in the list is the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The party recently split and some of the leaders stood by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who went on to form the NCP (SP). Now a leader of NCP (SP), Pawar’s daughter and an MP from Baramati, Supriya Sadanand Sule appeared in the fifth position. Sule had asked 577 questions.
Sule’s colleague Amol Ramsing Kolhe grabbed the immediate next spot, seventh, after posing 570 questions. Kolhe is an MP from Maharashtra’s Shirur.
Among the top 10 is also a lone Congress MP, Kuldeep Rai Sharma, who represents the Andaman and Nicobar Islands seat and posed 555 questions and grabbed the eight spot.
The ADR report also revealed that a total of 92,271 questions were asked by 505 MPs. Among the topic that received most attention are Health and Family Welfare. The MPs asked 6,602 questions related to the topic followed by 4,642 on Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 4,317 on Railways, 4,122 on Finance, 3,359 on Education, 3,263 on Environment, Forests and Climate Change and 2,813 on Road Transport and Highways.
The topic of Rural development received the least number of queries at just 2,368 questions.
The statement said, “On an average a MP (including MPs elected through bye-elections) has asked 165 questions, including starred questions and unstarred questions.”
It added, “Two MPs from Apna Dal (Soneylal) have asked lowest number of questions. On an average they have asked only five questions.”
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