JUDGMENT

Navin Chawla, J. - The petitioner by way of the present petition challenges the decision of the Media Advisory Committee of the Rajya Sabha (hereinafter referred to as MAC) taken in the meeting held on 06.07.2017 restricting the issuance of passes to the journalist under the freelance category to only sessional passes thereby discontinuing its earlier practice of issuing an annual pass to the journalist under the freelance category. The petitioner further prays for a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to issue a permanent pass to the petitioner for covering the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha.

2. The petitioner claims himself to be a freelance journalist with an extensive and long career having various contributions based on his reporting of the Indian Parliament. He claims that in 1990, the petitioner was granted a pass to cover the proceedings in the Bihar Legislative Assembly as a freelance journalist. He claims to have been covering the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha as well as the Lok Sabha since 1991 as also appearing on various news channels, contributing to several news portals, newspapers, etc. The petitioner further claims to have delivered lectures for thr