Kuwait Times

MPs, stop receiving us in diwaniyas

It is improper to invite people who created your career asking them to come to your diwaniya to congratula­te you

- By Thaar Al-Rasheedi —Translated by Kuwait Times

Dear lawmakers, do not receive us at your diwaniyas to greet you on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. Voters elected you to the parliament. It is you who have to go to their diwaniyas, houses, camps and ranches just the way you did during your electoral campaigns, when you invited voters over to campaigns to brief them about your agendas that was understood and accepted, but for you to invite voters over to your diwaniya to congratula­te you, is not.

Such an invitation might be accepted if the host was a ruling family member, an iconic merchant, a dignitary or even a minister because those did not get there through voters’ votes. So, it is improper to invite people who created your career asking them to come to your diwaniya to congratula­te you. So, dear lawmaker, wake up, beg for your voters’ forgivenes­s and go over to congratula­te them wherever they are.

I have no problem with receiving guests in lawmakers’ diwaniyas during Ramadan but I am totally against texting all constituen­ts concerning readiness to ‘receive congratula­tors’. This is absolutely reversed, disgusting and nerve-breaking. MPs who have made such a mistake must repent and straighten things up. They have to stop looking down upon voters. If you ever call an MP and get so lucky that he answers your call then he asks you to come over to his diwaniya, you better not because they make so many promises that they can never keep.

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