Breach of Privilege Motion

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  Breach of Privilege Motion

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1. Remembering dead farmers: In Feb 2021, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi led his party members and others in a 2-minute silence in the light of the death of farmers who lost their life in the ongoing protests. After this, the BJP MPs Sanjay Jaiswal and P.P Chaudhary alleged Rahul Gandhi had shown unparliamentary behaviour and brought a breach of privilege motion against him.
2. What is it: Breach of Privilege means violation of any of the privileges of Members of Parliament (MPs). It includes any action that casts reflections on MPs, parliament or its committees. The actions include publishing any news items or  editorials; any statements made in newspaper or magazine or TV interviews or any statements made in public speeches by the MPs.
3. How Breach of Privilege is checked: The breach of privilege is checked upon in accordance with the Article 105 of the constitution in Parliament while in case of state legislature the motion is passed in accordance with the Article 194. It is also governed by the Rule no.222 of chapter 20 in the Lok Sabha. While in case of Rajya Sabha, it is governed by Rule no.187 in chapter 16 of the rule book. These rules governing the Breach of Privilege mandates that the notice should be related to the incident of recent occurrence. It should also need the intervention of the House. The member can raise question on the motion of breach of privilege or contempt of member of contempt of the house after having consent of the Speaker. The notice regarding it should be given before 10 am to the Speaker or the Chairperson.
4. How the motion is scrutinized: The Speaker or the Rajya Sabha chairperson at first do the scrutiny of any privilege motion. They can either decide on the privilege motion or refer it to privileges committee of Parliament for further considerations. In Lok Sabha, the privilege committee is nominated by the Speaker consisting of 15 members. While in Rajya Sabha, Chairperson nominates the privilege committee comprising 10 members. 

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