Journalist U Chit Maung + Journalist Ma Malay - Journalist's thoughts and opinions

Ministers, don't belittle the country.

          The Speaker of the House also said that it is not appropriate to talk about the issue of monks just before the parliament session. Do the ministers and the Speaker think that the issue of monks is important only when the Buddha is about to die?

The parliament session has begun.

The long-awaited session of the House of Representatives, which was eagerly awaited by taxi drivers, hoteliers, political brokers, and creditors, began on August 28.

The meeting was held for just over 2 hours on the first day of the session and was over for the day. The important motion to discuss the flood issue was postponed to the next evening. The next day, the discussion was too long and the discussion was too long. That night, the government members were in one place. The opposition members were in another place. As usual, they were fighting to satisfy their own desires. The next day, the Bandula newspaper wrote (that the Burmese ethnic votes for the government were collapsing like a river, and the votes supporting the government were collapsing like a river. The votes that were collapsing from the government were increasing more than the votes that were collapsing from the opposition, so the government was powerless, and the government was in a position to collapse even without a motion to overthrow it).

It was found that the author wrote (The current government is basically certain that 70 votes are certain, and they are calmly ignoring the no-confidence motion, and that those who do not know the secretaries are sitting on their chairs and writing that the doctor's no-confidence motion is unlikely to succeed, and is likely to be successful). In Myanmar Light, it is found that the opposition is not weak by looking at the situation. Of course, the day the no-confidence motion is submitted, will be carried out, and the day the vote is taken, we will know who is right.

Unconformity

On the unity front, there was disagreement over the unity talk, and U Ba Shwe, who had been assigned the responsibility of working on the unity, left the meeting in a huff.

The words spoken at that meeting are worthy of special mention by the country because they reveal the true intentions of the speakers.

Ministers who speak in a non-threatening manner

The words spoken by some ministers in the House of Representatives are so arrogant that they are very unsatisfactory. A minister is a member of parliament who is elected by the people of the country and who, through his own cunning and cunning, is obliged to form an organization and combine it with other groups before he can accept office. Therefore, it is very despicable for them to think that they are the government and speak with ultimatums and resistance, which is a great disgrace to the country.

One example we should bring up is the exact words that Home Minister U Ba Bae retorted when U Ba Hlaing proposed to adjourn the meeting to discuss the issue of monks being starved in prison.

Among U Ba Ba’s statements were that he was sorry to have to object to the motion, that the seven monks who are currently fasting are serving sentences of two to 25 years for serious crimes, that there are 48 monks in prison and their crimes are very serious, that he is considering consolidating the monks in one prison, but that the law states that prisoners who have been sentenced to two years in prison cannot be transferred, that this matter is known to have arisen suddenly and for political reasons, and that it is not religious, that if U Ba Hlaing raises a question or a motion, the government will take action, that such a motion to suspend the meeting should not be tabled, that the monks have been fasting for about 10 days now, and that their weight has not dropped to a dangerous level, and we do not need to point out how bad it is. Every reader will be able to easily understand.

The chairman is a jerk.

While this was happening, the Speaker said (the monks who are not eating now are not in danger, and the Home Minister told us that, U Visara passed away more than 160 days ago, so those monks could not have passed away during the current session of the parliament, and the monks have not eaten for 10 days, so it is not important to discuss now, so we will not allow the motion) and it got worse. Since the Speaker's duties do not include reading the scriptures, he should only fulfill his duties. We had to warn him not to talk about it during the parliament session.

The Speaker should also be aware that the issues of hunger do not become less important as the days go by like other issues, but rather become more important as the days go by. This was also the case when U Visara passed away due to this attitude of the parliament, and now, when he is about to pass away, it is considered important and the MPs are allowed to discuss it, so we can trust that the country will show its strong displeasure.

Journal Kyaw, Volume 2, September 2, 1939.