New Delhi, March 23 Rajya Sabha Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Amitabh Bachchan on Monday expressed concern over the growing menace of VIP culture, which is affecting vehicular traffic and causing inconvenience to people.
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the House, she said that road blocks and traffic diversions caused by the movements of VIPs, including politicians, high-ranking officials, and dignitaries, have become a major source of disruption in the daily lives of countless citizens in the country.
"I have travelled all over the world, but I have never seen so many VIPs and their entourages, but they never stop people on the streets," Bachchan said.
She also narrated a recent incident when Rajya Sabha MPs, who leave from Shardula Dwar, were stopped as the main door was locked because of VIP movement.
"We have never faced such humiliation in the last 22 years of my time in this parliament. We are not a threat to any of the VIPs, especially the political lot," she emphasised.
The SP member further said that there are roads along the houses of political "big wigs" which remain blocked.
The MP highlighted that not only common citizens, but even ambulances get stuck due to VIP movements.
She urged Chairman C P Radhakrishnan to take up the matter with the government.
"Sir, speak to the government. You are the Vice President of this country...this culture has to stop in order to give dignity to the taxpayers of this country who have brought us into this House," Bachchan said.
