Is it a complete waste to hand rajya sabha seats to celebrities? The latest numbers say yes — and they’re brutal.


Take Harbhajan Singh. The former cricket star, nominated to the rajya sabha in 2022, has the lowest attendance in the house at a pathetic 25.95%. Out of 131 sittings, he bothered to show up for just 34. That’s it. Meanwhile, Raghav Chadha just ditched AAP for bjp along with six other MPs, proving these seats are basically political currency anyway.


And if you think Harbhajan is bad, look at Sachin Tendulkar’s record — a shocking 8% attendance. These are not isolated cases. We’ve turned the rajya sabha into a goddamn Hall of Fame instead of a serious house of legislation.


Here’s the savage truth:

- Hard-working ground-level party workers who actually understand policy, laws, and people’s problems get ignored.  
- Celebs treat the seat like a retirement gift or photo-op opportunity — show up a few times a year, collect the fat salary and perks, and vanish.  
- Taxpayers foot the bill for this circus while real governance suffers.  


Giving rajya sabha seats to non-performing celebrities is a straight-up slap in the face to thousands of grassroots leaders who’ve spent decades in the trenches. It’s time to stop this nonsense. parliament isn’t a VIP lounge for famous faces. It’s supposed to be for people who actually show up and do the damn job.
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SIBY JEYYA

29/04/2026 04:30 AM