Stressed-out Indian MPs will relax at weekends with sack races and other games if a ministerial proposal is accepted, a report said on Sunday.
According to a plan by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, a plethora of sporting events will be organised for the MPs at weekends during parliamentary sessions, the Indian Express reported.
Apart from traditional sports such as golf, shooting, swimming and cricket, the events will include sack races, opening of a knot (for women MPs only), lemon-in-a-spoon races, three-legged races, hitting the post with a hockey stick, rolling the wheel and the traditional Indian sport of kabbadi.
”Friends,” Azad wrote in a letter to all the MPs, ”we need to be not only physically present in parliament but also physically fit to manage the stresses and strains of being an effective parliamentarian.”
Indian Parliament sessions are characterised by unruly scenes with members sometimes stalling proceedings for weeks.
The winter session of Parliament is scheduled from December 1 to 24. — Sapa-AFP