Lok Sabha’s Ethics Committee
Recently, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha referred a complaint against sitting Member of Parliament (MP) to the House Ethics Committee.
About the Ethics Committee
- The genesis of formation of Ethics Committee in Parliament can be traced to a resolution adopted at the Presiding Officers Conference held in New Delhi in October, 1996 which desired the legislatures to explore the possibility of constituting Ethics Committee.
- In the case of Lok Sabha, a study group of the house committee of privileges in 1997 recommended the constitution of an Ethics committee, but it could not be taken up by Lok Sabha.
- The Committee of ....
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