Indian Polity Current Affairs Analysis
The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee on Thursday adopted a report recommending the expulsion of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra from the Lower House over a “cash-for-query” allegation.
This is the first time panel has recommended expulsion of a Parliamentarian, since it came into existence .
Ethics Committee:
Objective:
To oversee the moral and ethical conduct of the Members and to examine the
cases referred to it with reference to ethical and other misconduct of Members.
Formed in: 2000 @ 13th Loksabha
ithe Speaker 13th Lok Sabha (Late ShriG.M.C. Balayogi) constituted the First Ethics Committee in Lok Sabha on 16 May, 2000
Rajya Sabha Ethics Committee was formed in: 1997
A member can be expelled only if the House votes in favour of the panel’s recommendation
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