Sachin Tendulkar’s cricket career statistics may be among the best in the world, but his Parliament stats are pretty abysmal. But despite that the cricketer might have got a second chance to be on a Parliamentary Panel on Information Technology. 

The Indian Express had a pretty small report on the cricketing great’s performance in Parliament and how that hadn’t cost him his spot in a Parliamentary Panel. 

b’Sachin Tendulkar with Narendra Modi | Source: PIB’

He failed to attend any of the 12 meetings of the Standing Committee on Information Technology held last year. But that didn’t cost him a place on the panel and instead, he was re-nominated. 

And he repaid the faith, by staying consistent. Tendulkar was absent for the first meeting of the newly constituted panel. 

Not surprisingly, no one was amused: 

But then is that really a surprise? 

b”Sachin’s record in Parliament has been patchy | Source: Reuters”

Data from policy monitoring site PRS India reveals: 

  • Tendulkar has participated in 0 debates 
  • He has just 8 percent attendance
  • Has proposed no Private Members’ Bills
  • He has asked just 14 questions in the four years he’s been an MP