NOTES AND REFERENCES‌

1. M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Sixth Edition, 2009, p. 1160.

2. Ibid.

3. Hereafter referred to as 'the Group’.

4. The concerned motion was adopted on August 16, 1948.

5. A member or ex-member of Parliament can become a life member of the Group on payment of a fixed life subscription.

6. Each Friendship Group consists of 22 sitting members of Parliament (15 from the Lok Sabha and 7 from the Rajya Sabha) in proportion to the strength of parties in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The Speaker of the Lok Sabha appoints the President and two Vice- Presidents (one from each House) of the Friendship Group.

7. Hand Book for Members of Lok Sabha, Fifteenth Edition, 2009, pp. 207-208.

8. Ibid, pp. 208-209.

9. These are published by the CPA Secretariat, London.