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INDIAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

1. The Indian Parliamentary Group is an autonomous body formed in the year 1949 in pursuance of a motion adopted by the Constituent Assembly (Legislative) on 16th August, 1948. 2. Membership of the Indian Parliamentary Group is open to all Members of Parliament and ex-Members of Parliament. A Member of Parliament can become a life Member of the Group on payment of life subscription. On ceasing to be a Member of Parliament, a life member of the Group is designated as ‘Associate Life Member’. The management and control of the affairs of the Group are vested in the Executive Committee. The Speaker, Lok Sabha is the ex-officio President of the Group.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear Members, The Indian Parliamentary Group which came into existence in 1949 in pursuance of a motion adopted by Constituent Assembly on 16 August, 1948 has been the umbrella organization for Parliamentary diplomacy. I had the pleasure of being the Treasurer of the Group during the Sixteenth Lok Sabha under the leadership of my able predecessor, Smt. Sumitra Mahajan who very efficiently led the Group during the past five years. I am honoured and humbled to take on my role as the new President of the Group. Friends, the Indian Parliamentary Group functions as the National Group of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and main branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) in India. The Group also acts as a link between the Parliament of India and the various Parliaments of the world through exchange of delegations and interactions at various multilateral parliamentary fora.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA (LEGISLATIVE) DEBATES DATED 16 AUGUST, 1948

RESOLUTION RE: INDIAN PARLIAMENTARY GROUP OF INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION The Honourable Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister and Leader of the House): Sir, I beg to move the following Resolution:- "This Assembly is of opinion that the Honourable the Speaker be pleased to take steps to form an Indian parliamentary Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in conformity with the aims and objects of the said union." This Inter-Parliamentary Union was formed some sixty years ago for the purpose of promoting international arbitration and peace. The Union is an association of Parliamentary Groups constituted within the various national Parliaments set up on democratic lines. A group may be formed in each Parliament from amongst the Members of the National Parliament of the Country. There is no particular formality connected with the creation of an Inter-Parliamentary Group and its admission to the Union. A group constitutes itself and announces its membership. The Union is a Federation of National Groups. Each Group within a Parliament draws up its own rules of association and fixes the amount of actual contribution of its members. In its internal working each Group is autonomous subject of course to the limitation that it conducts its work in conformity with the aims of the Union to which it is affiliated.

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