Parliamentary procdure

This is a revised, updated and abridged single-volume edition of the most comprehensive two-volume treatise on Parliamentary Law, privileges, procedure, practice and precedents. It is an authoritative commentary on Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business, Directions from the Chair and Articles of the Constitution having a bearing on the position, powers and procedure of the Houses of the Parliament.

In the context of the need to resolve procedural problems, locate references to precise precedents and determine the most advisable course of action in each developing situation, an effort has been made in this treatise to bring all the relevant materials together at one place and to suitably organise them under relevant subject-heads, rules etc., in a systematic and purposive manner. The work is highly readable and informative. To make it a convenient reference tool, detailed Contents, Subject and Name indices,, Tables of Cases, Rules (both of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha), Directions and Articles have been provided. The treatise represents the quintessence of the accumulated wisdom of more than half-a century of the working of the institution of Parliament.

The study would serve as a reliable guide and ready reckoner on all matters of parliamentary practice and procedure. It is bound to be indispensable for all those concerned with the working of Parliamentary Institutions. It would prove to be of immense value to Presiding Officers, Members of Parliament and State Legislatures, practising advocates, officers of the Legislature Secretariats, research scholars and students in constitutional law, parliamentary political science, legislative management and processes.