“I’m of the agency view that there will be no problem or individual beyond the purview of discussion within the Rajya Sabha and the identical is completely topic to regulation by the House and the Chairman. The two precedents relied upon by the Hon’ble Leader of Opposition don’t have any bearing on the difficulty being decided herein. Further, the authenticated report made out there by the Leader of House, Shri Piyush Goyal, bears out that his demand of apology on the abroad statements made by a senior chief of Opposition is factually premised and doesn’t graduate to creating ‘allegation of a defamatory or incriminatory nature’. The documentation submitted by Leader of the House, as per directive, bears out his assertions imparted in Rajya Sabha on March 13, 2023, identical being in consonance with reality state of affairs”, Chairman Dhankar noticed. “In view of categorical and agency constitutional prescriptions, I can not persuade myself to maintain the purpose of order raised by the Hon’ble Leader of the Opposition Shri Mallikarjun Kharge and the identical is hereby declined”, he dominated .
He mentioned, “The Leader of the House Shri Piyush Goyal, as directed, has authenticated the assertions made by him within the Rajya Sabha on March 13, 2023, that led to elevating of Point of Order by Hon’ble Leader of Opposition Shri Mallikarjun Kharge… Any curtailment or qualification of the constitutional privilege of freedom of expression, of a Member of the Parliament within the Rajya Sabha will critically compromise and impede blossoming of democratic values…”
Kharge protested towards the ruling in a letter to the RS chairman. He mentioned that it had set a “problematic precedent”. Presiding officers had been anticipated to be honest and shouldn’t ‘present loyalty’ to the ruling celebration, he contended.
