Parliamentary oversight of intel agencies an idea whose time has come: Manish Tewari

“Had my private member’s Bill on providing a legal basis for our Intelligence services and a robust Parliamentary oversight mechanism that I first introduced in Parliament in the Budget Session of 2011, then again in the Winter Session of 2021 and then again on 9th August 2024 during the Monsoon session had been accepted by the successive governments from 2011 to 2024, India would not have been in the embarrassing position it finds itself internationally,” he said.The Intelligence Services (Powers and Regulation) Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha in 2011, was aimed at bringing “appropriate statutory basis” for Intelligence agencies. Though the Congress was in power at the Centre that time, it lapsed when Tewari took charge as a Union minister in 2012.



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