New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- : In a first by any Presiding Officer of the legislatures in the country and in the context of rising disruptions, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday unequivocally held that disruptions of proceedings amount to "contempt of the House" and disruptors can't claim it as their privilege to do so.
Delivering the second Ram Jethmalani Memorial Lecture on "Is the disruption of parliamentary proceedings an MP's privilege and/or a facet of parliamentary democracy?" virtually in New Delhi today, Naidu spoke at length on the intentions of various rules and other provisions requiring high standards of behaviour of MPs in the House and the scheme of privileges and argued that disruptions negate the objective of eff...