The Election Commission is understood to have let Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss off the hook in the office-of-profit case pending against him.
Even as Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee criticised the Election Commission for behaving like an investigative agency with the office-of-profit petition...
By the next session of Parliament, the Joint Parliamentary Committee set up under senior Congress MP Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi would be submitting a report providing generic and comprehensive definition of what entails office of profit that can be acceptable and implementable across the country in all state legislatures.
Despite changes in the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, the office-of-profit controversy is not quite over. Because not all posts, held by those against whom disqualification petitions are pending, have been exempted.
There are indications that Sonia Gandhi may not go back to being the chairperson of the National Advisory Council, putting a question mark on the future of the powerful group which pushed key social sector initiatives.
The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Act, 2006, better known as the Office-of-Profit law, will now be subjected to legal scrutiny.
The Parliament Amendment Act, 2006, better known as the Office of Profit (OoP) law, that received the President’s assent a couple of days back, has been challenged in the Supreme Court.
For Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and seven other CPI MPs, presidential assent to the Office of Profit Bill could not have come at a better time.
That term again. Office of Profit is back in news with the Lok Sabha agreeing to set up a joint parliamentary committee on the subject. An explainer to help you understand and recall why and how a constitutional obscurity keeps hitting national headlines.
