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Ethics committee to keep tab on Delhi's lawmakers

State assembly forms committee to keep track of members' doings inside and outside the House

PTI | April 2, 2010

In a move aimed at ensuring proper conduct of MLAs, Delhi assembly has decided to form an ethics committee on the lines of Rajya Sabha to prepare a code of conduct for its members and monitor their activities.

Speaker Yoganand Shastri said the committee will keep a tab on the conduct of MLAs both inside and outside the House and it will even have power to recommend disqualification of members if found guilty of "serious breach of conduct".

He said the allegations of BJP MLA from Bijwasan Satprakash Rana misbehaving with a Delhi Jal Board engineer has hastened the decision to form the committee.

Rana had allegedly roughed up a DJB engineer in October last year following which a delegation of the agency had approached the government to take appropriate action against the MLA.

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