No Oop please, says NRI forum

New Delhi, July 20 (UNI) A US-based NRI forum has written a letter to Lok Sabha members asking them not to legalise the Office of Profit (Oop) bill.

The NRI Coalition For Social Justice said Parliament should, instead, encourage the ''one man one-post'' formula to spread opportunities and widen inner-party democracy.

''We would request our lawmakers who are bent upon protecting their offices of profit and hence supporting the government move, to not to challenge the wisdom of our forefathers who drafted and incorporated that law pertaining to offices of profit,'' it stated.

The NRIs believe the ''lawmakers should concentrate on their most honest duty of lawmaking, monitoring their implementation and analyzing their impact on the life of the nation''.

A copy of the letter, addressed to Lok Sabha members through Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, was also forwarded to news organisations.

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