{"id":123126,"date":"2021-08-03T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=123126"},"modified":"2021-08-03T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:12:41","slug":"disregarding-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/disregarding-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Disregarding Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/opinion\/disregarding-parliament-121080201623_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Standard,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/parliamentary-standing-committee-information-technology-7435217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Express\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Synopsis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parliamentary Standing committees must not be hijacked by politics. They are an integral part of the Indian Parliamentary system and perform an enormous amount of good work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has written a letter to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He urged him to <\/span><b>take action against officials of the Union government who refused to appear before the committee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>What&#8217;s the issue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee was required to examine a number of issues, including the allegations of phone tampering and tapping associated with the Israeli Pegasus software.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The officials from three Union ministries (electronics and information technology, communications, and home affairs) had been summoned for the same.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, all of them declared at the last minute that they would not be able to attend.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These refusals arrived within a few minutes of each other and showed a <\/span><b>coordinated refusal by the summoned officials<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Hence, officials should be duly punished for breaching their responsibilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Indian Scenario Versus Global Scenario<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In most other democracies, surveillance and other intelligence operations by the executive branch are held <\/span><b>in check only by in-camera supervision by a subset of legislators from all parties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is a system that works well.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>There is no formal structure for such supervision in India. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a structure that expects, if the relevant committee asks for information, it must be either provided or the relevant official must provide explanations for secrecy in person.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Impact of Coordinated Refusals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It undermines the functioning of Parliamentary standing committees and enables the executive to escape from accountability.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a violation of Parliamentary privilege and an attack on Constitutional foundations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Business Standard, Indian Express\u00a0 Synopsis:\u00a0 Parliamentary Standing committees must not be hijacked by politics. They are an integral part of the Indian Parliamentary system and perform an enormous amount of good work.\u00a0 Background: The head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has written a letter to the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/disregarding-parliament\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disregarding Parliament<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8674,212],"class_list":["post-123126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-disregarding-parliament","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}