Record shows that among MPs from Pune district, Supriya Sule has the best attendance and Adhalrao Patil has lower than the ex-CWG chairman too.
Pune’s tainted Congress member of parliament (MP), Suresh Kalmadi, who is in the Tihar Jail in connection with the Commonwealth Games scam, does not have the worst Lok Sabha attendance record among MPs from Pune district since the beginning of the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009.
While Baramati MP Supriya Sule (NCP) has the best record, having attended for 140 days out of a total of 162 days, it is Shiv Sena’s Shirur MP, Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil who has the worst attendance record of 70 days among the four MPs from Pune district.
The Delhi high court on August 6 had rejected Kalmadi’s plea that he may be allowed to attend the parliament session. The court had asked him to produce his attendance record in the Lok Sabha for the last five years. Kalmadi showed attendance of 80% to 100% in various sessions in the last two years and said in the 14th Lok Sabha, he had asked 154 questions and 42 questions in the 15th Lok Sabha.
The attendance of MPs in the Lok Sabha is available on the official website and was accessed by DNA to analyse the attendance record of MPs from Pune district from the time they were elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009. The data records the number of days on which MPs signed in the attendance register.
While Sule shows attendance for 140 days and absence for 22 days from the time she was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2009, she is followed by Shiv Sena’s Maval MP, Gajanan Babar who attended parliament on 108 days and skipped the Lok
Sabha on 54 days.
The Pimpri-Chinchwad township is a part of the Maval constituency.
Kalmadi attended the house on 76 days and skipped it for 82 days.
Shiv Sena’s Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil has the poorest attendance amongst the four Lok Sabha MPs from Pune district having attended for 70 days and skipped it for 92 days.
When asked about his poor attendance, Adhalrao Patil said the attendance data must be faulty. “It is not possible that I have abstained for so may days. Whenever business was not conducted in the house due to pandemonium, I preferred not to sign the register as I felt that it was not fit to sign for attendance when no work was done.’’
The data indicates that the newly-elected members showed greater interest in attending the parliamentary sessions. Both Sule and Babar were elected to the 15th Lok Sabha for the first time in 2009. Sule was earlier elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2006 while Babar was previously elected to state legislative assembly in 1995 and 1999 as the Shiv Sena candidate.
Adhalrao Patil was in his second term in the Lok Sabha as he was first elected as MP in 2004.
Kalmadi was first elected to parliament in 1982 as a Rajya Sabha MP. Since then he has been elected to the Rajya Sabha for four terms and to the Lok Sabha for three terms.
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