UPSC Prelims 2024 · GS Paper 1 · Q30

Polity

Medium · Parliamentary Committees: Ethics Committee

Consider the following statements about the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha:

1. It was constituted after the Rajya Sabha, which had set up its own Ethics Committee earlier.

2. A complaint of unethical conduct against a Member can be made to the Committee only by another Member of the House, and not by any private citizen.

3. The Committee's jurisdiction is confined to examining a Member's conduct in his/her capacity as a Member of Parliament, not purely private conduct.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?