Parliamentary privileges need to be reviewed and clarified

For the past fortnight, the ‘majesty’ and ‘dignity’ of Parliament have been repeatedly invoked by notables unsettled by the assertion of ‘people’s power’ on the streets of urban India. The agitation led by a septuagenarian Gandhian may have triggered a spontaneous outburst of anger in India’s assertive middle classes, but its insistence on the immediate enactment of a jan lok pal bill has led critics to question the movement’s commitment to parliamentary democracy.

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