Don’t fetter the JPC with outdated rules

The Congress’s blind assertion of its majority in the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is probing the 2G Spectrum scam and its stiff opposition to the demand for summoning the Prime Minister and the Union Minister for Finance has put a question mark on the efficacy of parliamentary committees. It has also and struck a blow against the semblance of non-partisanship that characterised the work of these committees over the years.

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