Days after Lok Sabha member Amritpal Singh moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking temporary release to attend the ongoing winter session of Parliament, Punjab today opposed the plea by asserting that no one could, even indirectly, “pre-clear or restrict” what an MP might say on the floor of the House.The submission by senior counsel Anupam Gupta on behalf of the state came less than a fortnight after he told the Bench that even “a single speech” by the detained MP “can set the five rivers afire”.

Appearing before the Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry, Gupta opposed Amritpal’s parole plea saying “once an elected representative enters Parliament, no undertaking, no administrative assurance, and no judicial condition can curtail his speech”.

“Once he is all

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