Trinamool Congress Loses Chairpersonship of Two Key Parliamentary Panels
BJP leaders took over the commerce and chemicals panels as the reconstitution kept most other committee heads in place, officials said.
- On Saturday, Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla reconstituted the department-related Parliamentary committees, causing the Trinamool Congress to lose two key chairperson posts.
- The Trinamool Congress lost these berths after a rebel group of MPs led by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar switched camps following the West Bengal elections, claiming to have merged with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party.
- BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi replaced TMC's Dola Sen as chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Commerce, while Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar replaced Kirti Azad on the Chemicals and Fertilisers panel.
- Most chairpersons retained their positions, including Congress' Mukul Wasnik for the panel on education, women, children and youth, and former Union Minister Anurag Thakur for the panel on Coal, Mines and Steel.
- The Parliament operates 24 department-related committees, with 16 under the Lok Sabha Speaker and eight under the Rajya Sabha Chairman; a final decision on the rebel faction's status remains pending before Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Parliamentary Standing Committees for the year have been reconstituted with effect from September 26. Chairpersons for 24 panels have been appointed, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin issued on Saturday. India News | Parliamentary Standing Committees Reconstituted: Shashi Tharoor Reappointed External Affairs Panel Chief; Sudhanshu Trivedi Replaces TMC's Dola Sen as Commerce Panel Chair.
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