Most Members of Parliament rely on their personal staff to do ordinary legislative tasks like composing questions, requests for discussions, draft bills, etc. , therefore the transfer can be difficult for them. This reliance is a result of the MPs’ hectic schedules with party/constituency issues and/or technological difficulties.
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They can grant their legitimate PAs access to their accounts so they can do official business, according to the Lok Sabha handbook. If their staff is denied access, Members of Parliament will have to become more tech-savvy and spend more time in front of screens in order to participate in parliamentary business.
There is no disagreement with the action taken to make sure that outsiders or unauthorised individuals do not obtain login credentials. Staff members of an MP, however, do not fit into this description. Curbs are unnecessary because the Moitra case concerns the claim that she disclosed her portal password to Darshan Hiranandani, a resident of Dubai, who is a businessman.
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The TMC leader’s parliamentary ID was accessed 49 times from Dubai, according to the IT ministry. This came after an investigation into claims made by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey that Moitra accepted money from Hiranandani in exchange for raising issues with the Adani Group in Parliament.
Moitra has been recommended for expulsion from the Lok Sabha for a significant breach of parliamentary rules by the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee, which is looking into the incident. There is clearly a case to be made for allowing MPs’ authorised personal staff to access the Digital Sansad portal, even though investigations into the corruption charge are still ongoing.
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