In foremost rejig, Congress loses chairmanship of parliamentary committee on IT, Home; 6 key panels with BJP, allies now

Opposition parties like not been given the chairmanship of any of the four key parliamentary panels including the committee on Home Affairs and Recordsdata Technology, which had been with the Congress, in one of the standard rejig introduced on Tuesday.

With this, the chair of six foremost parliamentary committees — Home, IT, Defence, External Affairs, Finance and Well being — all are with the BJP and its allies.

Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi has been replaced by BJP MP and retired IPS officer Brij Lal as the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing committee on Home Affairs.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who’s contesting the birthday celebration’s presidential polls, has been replaced by Prataprao Jadhav, a Shiv Sena MP from the Shinde faction, as the head of the Parliamentary Panel on Recordsdata Technology.

The Trinamool Congress, which had the chair of the Parliamentary Panel on Meals and User Affairs, has not been given the chairmanship of any parliamentary committee after the reshuffle.

“TMC is the third most animated birthday celebration in Parliament, additionally the second most animated opposition birthday celebration doesn’t catch a single chairmanship. The most animated opposition birthday celebration loses two well-known chairmanships of Standing committees. Here is the stark actuality of Novel India,” TMC chief in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien talked about in a statement.

Samajwadi Occasion chief Ramgopal Yadav has been replaced as the chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Well being and Family Welfare.

The panel on food will be chaired by BJP MP Locket Chatterjee and Well being by her birthday celebration colleague Vivek Thakur.

Moreover, the DMK has been given chairmanship of parliamentary panel on Industry which used to be till now with the TRS.