Joshi discusses PAC with Speaker

BJP leader and Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday after the speaker’s meetings with Opposition leaders failed to break the logjam over the JPC demand.

BJP leader and Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Murli Manohar Joshi met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Friday after the speaker’s meetings with Opposition leaders failed to break the logjam over the JPC demand.

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He is understood to have had discussions with her on whether Parliamentary rules allowed the Prime Minister to appear before the PAC. Since this cannot be done without the speaker’s approval, the meeting suggests that Joshi has begun consultations on the matter.