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NEW DELHI: Come the winter session of Parliament, Lok Sabha members are set to face what can be termed the ‘Mahua Moitra effect’ with regard to sharing passwords and OTPs for the House portal or its app, filing notices for questions in the House, submitting travel bills or even accessing their official email.After the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee faulted TMC’s Mahua Moitra for sharing the password of her official email with an outsider — Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani — to allegedly upload questions against the Adani Group that she raised in the House, the LS secretariat is learnt to have blocked access of MPs’ secretaries and personal assistants to the Digital Sansad portal and apps to facilitate the members’ routine functions like submission of questions to be asked in the House, accessing emails and submitting TA bills.The access is now restricted to the MP.

However, the secretariat has not yet issued any notification on the restrictions on access.LS members are now expected to handle their own digital parliamentary functions.

But that could be a tall order, given the time and skill constraints of many members.

“At best, the members can sit beside their assistants or secretaries, sharing the passwords and OTPs to get their work done.

Most MPs are still using this ‘unofficial’ method to participate,” said a source.With Digital Sansad coming into use since September 1, members were allowed to authorise assistants or secretaries to access their accounts by submitting the email IDs and phone numbers of their authorised personnel to the Lok Sabha secretariat.





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