Sir: We need a bill to be passed in parliament called the ‘Party Loyalty Bill’. In this bill it must be ensured that a person elected from one party must remain in the party for at least ten years so that their performance can be checked. Many candidates change their parties at the end of the government’s tenure. In the last government many candidates elected from different parties changed their party and now when their tenure is near completion they want to change to another party. A member of parliament gets many perks and privileges in terms of salary, development funds, cars, air fare and foreign trips. It is important to see how they worked when they had a portfolio and that their next job is given in accordance with the performance shown. In many ministries the development funds are wasted. If a parliamentarian changes his party in every election, how will anyone judge his performance? I think from the next elections if a person is elected from one party he or she must remain in the same party for the next ten years so that their performance can be judged in another election. In the last 20 years, many candidates were elected from the same constituency over and over again but none of them actually did any kind of work. They just changed their party in every election in order to keep winning the seat in the assembly on a party platform. GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN Karachi