Rajya sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar yet to attend Parliament this year
9 Aug 2014 5:21 AM IST
As a cricketer, he enjoyed the status of a god in India. But just months after hanging up his boots, Sachin Tendulkar has come in for rare criticism for failing to attend a single session of Parliament this year.
The 41-year-old, considered one of the all-time cricketing greats, promised to be a vocal supporter of sport when he was sworn in as a member of the Upper House of Parliament in June 2012. But parliamentary records show the former batsman has not attended a single session this year. He made it to just three in 2013 and has so far not participated in any debates in the house.
Although Indian legislators are known for failing to show up, Tendulkar has the worst record of all, with just three percent attendance last year, according to the monitoring group PRS Legislative Research. The batsman was expected to be more of a presence this year after retiring from cricket last November, and some MPs ventured veiled criticism of him on Wednesday, although none dared to mention him by name. ‘These MPs were selected so that they can be present and make a difference in the society. But I have never seen him in the house,’ Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal said in Parliament on Wednesday, in an apparent reference to Tendulkar.
The 41-year-old, considered one of the all-time cricketing greats, promised to be a vocal supporter of sport when he was sworn in as a member of the Upper House of Parliament in June 2012. But parliamentary records show the former batsman has not attended a single session this year. He made it to just three in 2013 and has so far not participated in any debates in the house.
Although Indian legislators are known for failing to show up, Tendulkar has the worst record of all, with just three percent attendance last year, according to the monitoring group PRS Legislative Research. The batsman was expected to be more of a presence this year after retiring from cricket last November, and some MPs ventured veiled criticism of him on Wednesday, although none dared to mention him by name. ‘These MPs were selected so that they can be present and make a difference in the society. But I have never seen him in the house,’ Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal said in Parliament on Wednesday, in an apparent reference to Tendulkar.
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