After the NDA administration recreated 24 committees made up of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members, the BJP kept chairmanship of major parliamentary panels like as home affairs, finance, and defence.
In line with the practice of providing proper representation for opposition parties in parliamentary committees, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been appointed to the defense affairs committee. Congress MPs, including Shashi Tharoor, have been appointed chairpersons of five parliamentary standing committees: external affairs, petroleum, rural development, education, and agriculture.
The Trinamool Congress will chair the panels on commerce and chemicals & fertilizers, according to a notification issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat late Thursday.
Additionally, the reconstituted panels have representation from the National Democratic Alliance’s allies, with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) getting to chair the parliamentary standing committee on housing and urban affairs. Janata Dal (United) member Sanjay Kumar Jha will head the panel on transport, tourism and culture.
Each committee has 31 members — 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha.
All about the new Parliamentary Standing Committees:
1. Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is a member of the standing committee on Defence.
2. Congress leaders heading panels include:
> Shashi Tharoor – external affairs
> Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh – education, women, children, youth and sports
> Former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi – agriculture, animal husbandry and food processing
> Odisha MP Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka – rural and panchayati raj
3. BJP’s Radha Mohan Singh will head the committee on defence.
4. BJP leader Bhartruhari Mahtab will head the committee on finance.
5. Former Union Minister and BJP leader Anurag Thakur has been given chairmanship of the committee on coal, mines and steel.
6. BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy will lead the water resources committee.
7. BJP member Nishikant Dubey will lead the committee on communications and information technology.
8. BJP MP from Mandi Kangana Ranaut made her debut as a member of the committee on communications and IT. Other members of this committee include SP leader Jaya Bachchan, SS-UBT’s Priyanka Chaturvedi, BJD’s Sushmit Patra and Congress’s KTS Tulsi from the Upper House, as well as BJP MPs Anil Baluni and Poonam Madam, and TMC’s Mahua Moitra from the Lok Sabha.
9. Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of the BJP will head the committee on home affairs.
10. The committee on commerce will be headed by TMC’s Dola Sen.
11. Health and family welfare will be headed by Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party.
12. Tiruchi Siva of the DMK will head the panel on industry.
13. BJP’s CM Ramesh will head the panel on railways, the Indian Express reported.
14. TMC’s Azad Kirti Jha will chair the committee on chemicals & fertilizers.
15. DMK’s Kanimozhi Karunanidhi will head the committee on consumer affairs, food and public distribution.
16. Key BJP allies, including the TDP and Janata Dal (United), Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP, will head one committee each. These include:
> Shiv Sena’s Shrirang Appa Chandu Barne – energy
> TDP’s Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy – housing and urban affairs
> NCP’s Sunil Tatkare – petroleum and natural gas
> JD(U)’s Sanjay Jha – transport, tourism and culture
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Source: Live Mint
