Lok Sabha Ethics Committee

Article Title: Lok Sabha Ethics Committee

10-11-2023

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