JPC chairman welcomes privilege motion against him

The Bharatiya Janata Party has given a notice for moving a breach of privilege motion in both Houses of Parliament against Joint Parliamentary Committee Chairperson P C Chacko for leakage of the panel's report on the 2G spectrum allocation issue. BJP Member of Parliament Yashwant Sinha gave the notice on Monday to move the motion in the Lok Sabha while Ravi Shankar Prasad has submitted a similar notice in the Rajya Sabha. The main opposition has stated in its notice that any unauthorised ...

Goa BJP legislator Nilesh Cabral moved a privilege motion against a Federation of film producers for misquoting the Calling Attention, congratulating a Konkani movie for getting selected for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and Arvind Kejriwals Aam Aadmi Party have objected to the breach of privilege motion passed by state Assembly against editors of two television channels.

The Bombay high court has appointed Advocate General Darius Khambata as amicus curie (friend of court) to help it in a petition filed by former vice-chairman of Scheduled Tribe Certificate Scrutiny Committee Shriniwas Karve, challenging three breach of ...

The DMK decided to have another pow-wow with the UPA government by moving a privilege motion, seeking the removal of Congress leader PC Chacko as chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on telecom.

While the state-appointed panel is unlikely to recommend punishment, it is not keen on showing leniency in the one-year suspension of the five MLAs allegedly involved in the attack on police sub-inspector Sachin Suryavanshi inside the Vidhan Bhavan premises.

Accusing opposition Congress MLAs of availing allowances despite not attending the ongoing Punjab assembly session, the treasury bench sought privilege motion against them.

The policeman was beaten up when MLA Kshitij Thakur moved a privilege motion against being stopped for speeding.

TDP walks out terming it unconstitutional; threatens to move privilege motion