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CPI (M) MP John Brittas speaks in Rajya Sabha during the budget session. (ANI)
CPI (M) Rajya Sabha member John Brittas on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan, saying that any “communication or demand” from the Centre seeking to “disallow Parliamentary questions relating to PM CARES, PMNRF, or similar funds be summarily rejected, and that the authority of Parliament to admit and consider such questions be preserved”.
The letters come a day after The Indian Express reported that the PMO had told the Lok Sabha Secretariat that questions and matters related to the three funds are not permissible under Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business.
Brittas wrote: “A fund that is recognised as having been set up by the Central Government for public relief, that is eligible to receive CSR contributions under the Companies Act, 2013, and that has accepted thousands of crores of rupees from public and corporate sources, cannot simultaneously be insulated from parliamentary scrutiny on the plea that it is ‘not a concern of the Government of India’.”
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