{"id":14100,"date":"2023-06-26T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=14100"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:43:32","slug":"privilege-motion-against-mla","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/privilege-motion-against-mla","title":{"rendered":"Privilege Motion Against MLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a breach of privilege motion moved against senior BJP MLA and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Rajendra Rathore led to an uproar in the Rajasthan Assembly.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is a Privilege Motion and who can move it?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All Members of Parliament (MPs) and State Assembly (MLAs) enjoy rights and immunities, individually and collectively, so that they can discharge their duties and functions effectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any instance when these rights and immunities are disregarded by any member of Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha is an offence,<\/span><b> called \u2018breach of privilege\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is punishable under the Laws of Parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Any member from either house can move a notice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the form of a motion against the member who he\/she thinks is guilty of the breach of privilege.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Houses of the Parliament reserve the right to punish any action of contempt (not necessarily breach of privilege) which is against its authority and dignity, as per the laws.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Rules Governing Privilege Motion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rules governing the privilege are mentioned in the<\/span><b> Rule No 222<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Lok Sabha Rule Book and <\/span><b>Rule 187<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Rajya Sabha rulebook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rules explain that any member of the House may, with the consent of the Speaker or the Chairperson, raise a question involving an incident that he or she considers a breach of privilege either of a member or of the House or of a committee.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The notice, however, has to be about a recent incident and should need the intervention of the House.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These notices have to be submitted before 10 am to the Speaker or the Chairperson of the House.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Role of the Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairperson:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The speaker of Lok Sabha and the Chairperson of Rajya Sabha are the first level of scrutiny of a privilege motion in the two Houses of Parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can either take a decision on the privilege motion or can also refer it to the privileges committee of Parliament.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the Speaker or the House Chairperson gives consent under Rule 222, the concerned member is allowed to explain himself or herself.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>What is the Privileges Committee?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Speaker of Lok Sabha nominates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a committee of privileges consisting of <\/span><b>15 members<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of parliament from each party.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report prepared by the committee is submitted to the House for its consideration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Speaker may also allow a half-hour debate on the report by the committee before passing orders or directing that the report be tabled before the House. A resolution is passed.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About Parliamentary Privileges:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parliamentary privileges are<\/span><b> special rights, immunities and exemptions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> enjoyed by the two Houses of Parliament, their committees and their members.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Constitution also extends the parliamentary privileges to those persons who are entitled to speak and take part in the proceedings of a House of Parliament or any of its committees. These include the <\/span><b>Attorney General of India and Union ministers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Article 105 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Constitution expressly mentions two privileges, that is, freedom of speech in Parliament and right of publication of its proceedings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parliamentary privileges do not extend to the President who is also an integral part of the Parliament. <\/span><b>Article 361<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Constitution provides for privileges <\/span><b>for the President.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: The Hindu<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a breach of privilege motion moved against senior BJP MLA and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Rajendra Rathore led to an uproar in the Rajasthan Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[815,2116,2117],"paper-wise":[2084],"subject":[2124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157265,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14100\/revisions\/157265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}