Rahul Gandhi is a member of the Committee on Defence (File)
New Delhi:
Parliament’s standing committees have been constituted on Thursday with BJP’s Bhartruhari Mahtab to helm the important thing panel on Finance and Congress’ Shashi Tharoor to go the panel on Exterior Affairs.
The department-related standing committees, which have illustration from throughout celebration traces, act as mini parliaments and maintain a tab on the functioning of varied ministries.
The notification of the committees was introduced by a communique issued by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat.
The committee on Defence will probably be chaired by former union minister Radha Mohan Singh, whereas the panel on Residence Affairs will probably be headed by BJP member Radha Mohan Das Agrawal.
The chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi is a member of the Committee on Defence. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s title doesn’t determine in any of the committees.
Main BJP allies such because the TDP and Janata Dal (United) apart from its companions within the poll-bound Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena and the NCP, will probably be heading one committee every.
The lone NCP Lok Sabha member Sunil Tatkare will probably be heading the panel on Petroleum and Pure Fuel and Shiv Sena’s Shrirang Appa Barne will helm the committee on Power.
JD(U)’s Sanjay Jha will probably be heading the committee on Transport, Tourism and Tradition whereas TDP’s Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy will chair the committee on Housing and City Affairs.
Congress members Charanjit Singh Channi and Saptagiri Ulaka have been made chairpersons of the committees on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Meals Processing; and Rural Improvement and Panchayati Raj respectively.
DMK’s Tiruchi Siva and Okay Kanimozhi will chair the committees on Trade; and Shopper Affairs, Meals and Public Distribution respectively.
Former Union Minister Anurag Thakur and Rajiv Pratap Rudy have been given the chairmanships of committees on Coal, Mines and Metal; and Water Sources respectively.
BJP member Nishikant Dubey has been made the chairman of the committee on Communications and Data Know-how.
Within the earlier Lok Sabha, Mr Dubey had a operating battle with Tharoor, who was the chair on the panel of Committee and IT. Tharoor was changed as chair of the essential committee in 2022.
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