{"id":13859,"date":"2023-08-09T05:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13859"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:58:18","slug":"about-committee-of-privileges-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-committee-of-privileges-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"About Committee of Privileges in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is Parliamentary Privilege?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/parliamentary-privileges\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Parliamentary privilege<\/u><\/a> <strong>refers to rights and immunities enjoyed by Parliament<\/strong> <strong>as an institution and MPs in their individual capacity<\/strong>, without which they cannot discharge their functions as entrusted upon them by the Constitution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Are these parliamentary privileges defined under law?\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>According to the Constitution<\/strong>, <strong>the powers, privileges and immunities of Parliament and MP&#8217;s are to be defined by Parliament.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No law has so far been enacted in this respect<\/strong>. In the absence of any such law, <strong>it continues to be governed by British Parliamentary conventions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is breach of privilege?\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A breach of privilege is a <strong>violation of any of the privileges of MPs\/Parliament<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Among other things, <strong>any action &#8216;casting reflections&#8217; on MPs<\/strong>, <strong>parliament or its committees;<\/strong> could be considered breach of privilege.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This may include publishing of news items, editorials or statements<\/strong> made in newspaper\/magazine\/TV interviews or in public speeches.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Committee of Privileges<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This committee <strong>consists of 15 members in Lok Sabha <\/strong>(<strong>10 in case of Rajya Sabha<\/strong>) <strong>nominated by the Speaker<\/strong> (<strong>Chairman<\/strong> in case of Rajya Sabha).<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the Rajya Sabha, the deputy chairperson heads the committee<\/strong> of privileges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Powers and Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The committee <strong>examines every question involving a breach of privilege<\/strong> of the House or of the members or of any Committee thereof <strong>referred to it by the House or by the Speaker\/Chairman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>determines with reference to the facts of each case whether a breach of privilege is involved and makes suitable recommendations<\/strong> in its report.<\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>states the procedure to be followed<\/strong> <strong>by the House in giving effect to its recommendations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When a question of privilege is referred to the Committee by the House, <strong>the report of the Committee is presented to the House by the Chairman or, in his absence, by any member of the Committee.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Where a question of privilege is referred to the Committee by the Speaker, the <strong>report of the Committee is presented to the Speaker who may pass final orders thereon or direct that it be laid on the Table of the House<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Speaker\/Chairman may refer to the Committee any petition regarding the disqualification of a member on the ground of defection for making a preliminary inquiry <\/strong>and submitting a report to him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The procedure to be followed by the Committee in these cases is so far as may be the same as applicable to questions of breach of privilege.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the composition of Rajya Sabha?<\/h3>\n<p>The Rajya Sabha should consist of not more than 250 members &#8211; 238 members representing the States and Union Territories, and 12 members nominated by the President. Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and is not subject to dissolution. However, one third of the members retire every second year, and are replaced by newly elected members. Each member is elected for a term of six years. The Vice President of India is the ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha. The House also elects a Deputy Chairman from among its members. Besides, there is also a panel of &#8220;Vice Chairmen&#8221; in the Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/complaint-against-raghav-chadha-now-with-rs-privileges-committee\/article67177802.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Complaint against Raghav Chadha now with RS Privileges Committee<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary privilege refers to rights and immunities enjoyed by Parliament as an institution and MPs in their individual capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}