24 Parliamentary standing panels formed: BJP to lead 11, allies 4, Opposition 9

The Committee connected Home Affairs volition beryllium chaired by BJP’s Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, and the 1 connected Defence volition beryllium headed by BJP’s Radha Mohan Singh. Bhartruhari Mahtab volition caput the Committee connected Finance. C M Ramesh volition caput the sheet connected Railways and Nishikant Dubey the 1 connected Communications and Information Technology.

Among the NDA allies, JD(U) has been allotted the Committee connected Transport, Tourism and Culture (Sanjay Kumar Jha), portion the Committee connected Housing and Urban Affairs volition beryllium headed by TDP’s Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy.

The Congress has been allotted Committee connected Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports that volition beryllium chaired by Digvijaya Singh; Committee connected Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing (Charanjit Singh Channi); Committee connected External Affairs (Shashi Tharoor); and Committee connected Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (Saptagiri Sankar Ulak).

Dola Sen of the TMC volition caput the Committee connected Commerce, portion Azad Kirti Jha volition seat the Committee connected Chemicals and Fertilisers. The DMK has been allotted Committee connected Industry (Tiruchi Siva) and Committee connected Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Shrimati Kanimozhi Karunanidhi).

Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav volition seat the Committee connected Health and Family Welfare.

Negotiations betwixt the authorities and the Opposition parties implicit the committees had been going connected for a mates of months.

On August 16 this year, 5 lasting committees of Parliament were constituted, with Congress MP and wide caput in-charge (organisation) K C Venugopal being named arsenic the chairperson of the Committee connected Public Accounts. The station of seat of the Committee connected Public Accounts arsenic per normal is fixed to the Opposition.

The constitution of the committees bespeak the changed numbers successful the Lok Sabha wherever the BJP managed to triumph 240 seats, portion the Congress won 99. In 2019 erstwhile the BJP had won 303 seats, the ruling enactment had kept the chairmanship of astir of the parliamentary panels that scrutinises the cardinal ministries dealing with information affairs with itself. It had near to the Opposition conscionable the Home Affairs, a ministry headed by past enactment president Amit Shah.