PATNA, Feb. 8 -- The Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla on Saturday expressed anguish over the decline in dignity and decorum in state legislatures while stressing the need for legislatures to be well versed in legislative practices, rules and precedences so that they could participate meaningfully in parliamentary debates and also fulfil the expectations of people who have chosen them as public representatives to raise public issues in the houses.

The Speaker , while giving the inaugural address of a symposium on "Empowered Legislators, Stronger Democracy" on the occasion of foundation day of Bihar Legislative Assembly in Patna in attendance of Union parliamentary affairs and minority affairs Kiren Rijiju, deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha Hari...