Following the current controversy involving Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra and the ‘Cash for Questions’ scandal, the central authorities has applied a big change within the system that impacts all Members of Parliament. Now, no MP can be allowed to share their login ID and password with anybody. This improvement stems from allegations made by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey, who claimed that Mahua Moitra had shared her parliamentary portal ID and password with a businessperson, and login exercise was traced again to Dubai. In response, Mahua Moitra defended herself, stating that her associates had logged in from Dubai.
A serious overhaul in Parliament’s website entry
The central authorities has now revamped the system, disabling entry for MPs’ secretaries and private assistants by means of the digital parliamentary portal and apps. Access to those functionalities, resembling submitting questions for parliamentary periods, e mail entry, and submitting journey allowance (TA) payments, will now be unique to the MPs themselves. The official notification from the Parliament Secretariat concerning these modifications is but to be launched.
The ethics committee of the Lok Sabha had discovered Mahua Moitra responsible of sharing her official e mail password with an exterior particular person. In gentle of this determination, the Parliament portal and app will not allow the sharing of passwords and one-time passwords (OTPs). It is anticipated that a number of MPs might face challenges resulting from their restricted data of the brand new procedures.
Under the earlier system, MPs might share their login credentials with their secretaries or assistants by offering their worker’s e mail ID and cellular quantity to the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Subsequently, these people might additionally entry the parliamentary portal. However, this observe is not permissible.
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