| Privilege Motion • It is concerned with the breach of parliamentary privileges by a minister. • It is moved by a member when he feels that a minister has committed a breach of privilege of the House or one or more of its members by withholding facts of a case or by giving wrong or distorted facts. • Its purpose is to censure the concerned minister |
- Opposition has moved a privilege motion in the Rajya Sabha against the Home Minister citing his speech in Parliament regarding the landslides in Wayanad. According to the report shows that statements about early warnings issued by the Union government were false.
- India lacks a law that defines what is a parliamentary privilege.
- Article 105 in the Indian Constitution explicitly mentions only two kinds of privileges, freedom of speech in the Parliament and the right to publish the house proceedings.
- It should be noted here that the Parliament, till now, has not made any special law to exhaustively codify all the privileges.
- They are based on five sources, namely, Constitutional provisions, Various laws made by Parliament, Rules of both the Houses, Parliamentary conventions, and Judicial interpretations.
Dig Deeper: Compare between Breach of Privilege and Contempt of House.
