New Delhi: A parliamentary committee has held that any Member of Parliament holding the office of chairman or member of the advisory committee on discretionary allotment of dealerships of petroleum products should be exempted from disqualification.
"The Committee feels that the office of chairman or member of the advisory committee... will not come under the purview of 'office-of-profit' and it will not attract the rigours of the Article 102(1) (a) of the Constitution," the Joint Committee on Offices of Profit said.
The committee, headed by Chandra Bhushan Singh, presented its third report in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
It felt that the functions of the advisory committee are advisory in nature and the regulation proposed falls within the compensatory allowance defined in Sec 2(a) of Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act.
The advisory committee on discretionary allotments does not exercise any executive, legislative or judicial powers, nor does it enable the holder of office in the committee to wield influence or power by way of patronage, it said.
Besides, the committee held that the nomination of an MP from Jaipur city to the Water Sector Reform committee would not entail disqualification.
The committee noted that its recommendations were of advisory nature and as such could not give any protection to members from disqualification under the law until they were given statutory affect by amending the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act.
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