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[ 17 Aug, 2006 1853hrs ISTPTI ]
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NEW DELHI: The main Opposition BJP on Thursday supported the idea of setting up a joint parliamentary committee to define what constitutes an office of profit, but suggested MPs holding other posts should quit them until the panel gives its report.
BJP Parliamentary Party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra insisted a JPC in this regard vindicated his party's stand that there has to be a clear definition of what qualifies to be an office of profit.
"The parliamentary panel should aim to address concerns raised by the President (while he declined his assent in May to the office-of-profit legislation) and set out uniform standards and definition for what constitutes and office of profit across the country," he told reporters here.
The BJP leader maintained that his party favoured granting what he called one-time amnesty to lawmakers whose legislative positions have been challenged because they hold other posts with benefits.
Malhotra, whose party and its NDA allies had suggested President APJ Abdul Kalam seek legal advice over having opinion of the Supreme Court on the office-of-profit Bill passed in its original form again, said MPs holding additional posts should quit them for now.
"Let them (lawmakers) quit the additional posts they are holding. And if the JPC concludes that the posts they had been holding do not qualify as offices of profit, they can have them back," he remarked.
In separate comments, Malhotra attacked the Left over West Bengal's "clean chit" to Coca Cola and Pepsi in the state. "This shows contradictions within the communists who have banned the soft drinks in Kerala, but have found them safe for people of West Bengal," he said.
[ 17 Aug, 2006 1853hrs ISTPTI ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
NEW DELHI: The main Opposition BJP on Thursday supported the idea of setting up a joint parliamentary committee to define what constitutes an office of profit, but suggested MPs holding other posts should quit them until the panel gives its report.
BJP Parliamentary Party spokesman Vijay Kumar Malhotra insisted a JPC in this regard vindicated his party's stand that there has to be a clear definition of what qualifies to be an office of profit.
"The parliamentary panel should aim to address concerns raised by the President (while he declined his assent in May to the office-of-profit legislation) and set out uniform standards and definition for what constitutes and office of profit across the country," he told reporters here.
The BJP leader maintained that his party favoured granting what he called one-time amnesty to lawmakers whose legislative positions have been challenged because they hold other posts with benefits.
Malhotra, whose party and its NDA allies had suggested President APJ Abdul Kalam seek legal advice over having opinion of the Supreme Court on the office-of-profit Bill passed in its original form again, said MPs holding additional posts should quit them for now.
"Let them (lawmakers) quit the additional posts they are holding. And if the JPC concludes that the posts they had been holding do not qualify as offices of profit, they can have them back," he remarked.
In separate comments, Malhotra attacked the Left over West Bengal's "clean chit" to Coca Cola and Pepsi in the state. "This shows contradictions within the communists who have banned the soft drinks in Kerala, but have found them safe for people of West Bengal," he said.