There is no doubt that the Speaker of the Lok Sabha should be a person, once elected, to be above board to uphold the supremacy of the legislature. But, Somnath Chatterjee, at the same time has diverse views and while trying to be impartial has shown his bias, thus delimiting himself from the charateristic of impartiality. As for his threat to resign, etc. etc., he has eaten his own words many a times, and, apparently too much is being made of the issue of his office of the speaker. As an observer of events over the last four years, it would not be wrong to say that Somnath Chatterjee is all air and no substance. In other words, he is just a loud mouth.
