Letter to BS on AAP's appointment of parliamentary secretaries

Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Punjab and Haryana and Assam High Courts have struck down the appointment of parliamentary secretaries by different parties

This is with reference to “AAP must introspect” (January 24). AAP’s act of wholesale appointment of parliamentary secretaries to distribute delicious crumbs of power indiscriminately was questionable from the very beginning. Ministers holding an executive position while being part of legislature is inevitable but that does not mean the entire legislature (or most of it) can be converted into executive. 

The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959 provides a broad definition of ‘profit’ which includes not only salary/ remuneration/perks but includes occupying any office exercising executive, legislative or judicial power or offices which confer power to disburse funds, allot land