Parliamentarians of South Avenue, New Delhi's power corridor are facing "Monkey menace" nowadays. Almost daily, there is some simian-related incident around the Indian Parliament, especially when the House session is in progress, when unruly monkeys pose a serious challenge to what many in India consider "unruly parliamentarians".
Recently a parliamentarian from Jharkhand state was attacked by a group of monkeys, who decamped with his briefcase carrying ‘cash and other valuables’.
In another incident a group of monkeys took lunch box of an employee Din Dayal Sharma in the Secretariat Building & broke chairs, threw files from closets in his office.
While inside the House, parliamentarians may debate, clash or wrestle over what they feel are key national issues; outside — in the office corridors of South Avenue — monkeys rule the roost. "Don’t park your cars unlocked, monkeys can even drive them away", goes a saying here.
So this time the parliamentarians have taken up the matter in the ongoing Parliament session. They are demanding that monkeys be barred (disqualified!) from entering Parliament. But how? Getting rid of some 20,000-plus monkeys isn’t an easy task. One parliamentarian K Malaisamy, who raised the issue in Rajya Sabha (Upper House), has a remedy: "The monkeys have to be transported out. They can't make merry at our expense," he says.
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