In a significant development, the Congress has lost chairmanship of the Parliamentary panels on Communication & IT and Home.<\/p>\n
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who headed the key Lok Sabha panel on Communication & IT, has now been replaced by Shiv Sena MP Prataprao Jadhav. Incidentally, Jadhav belongs to Eknath Shinde’s faction within Shiv Sena.<\/p>\n
Similarly, BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh, Brijlal, will now head the Parliamentary panel on Home, which was earlier with the Congress.<\/p>\n
The Lok Sabha Parliamentary panel on Energy, which was headed by erstwhile NDA ally JD-U’s Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lalan, will now be headed by BJP MP Jagdambika Pal.<\/p>\n
The panel on Energy is considering the controversial Electricity Amendment Bill.<\/p>\n
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has been appointed as the Chairman of the Parliamentary standing committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forest and Climate Change.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, Trinamool Congress, the third largest party in the Lok Sabha, has not been given any panel to head.<\/p>\n
BJP and its allies now head key panels on Home, IT, Defence, External Affairs, Finance and Health.<\/p>\n
Lok Sabha MP Radha Mohan Singh has been appointed the Chairman of the Parliamentary standing committee on Railways.<\/p>\n
BJP Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar, Vivek Thakur, has been appointed as the Chairman of the standing committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports.<\/p>\n
All the Parliamentary panels’ tenure had ended last month, which had necessitated their reconstitution.<\/p>\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a significant development, the Congress has lost chairmanship of the Parliamentary panels on Communication & IT and Home. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who headed the key Lok Sabha panel on Communication & IT, has now been replaced by Shiv Sena MP Prataprao Jadhav. Incidentally, Jadhav belongs to Eknath Shinde’s faction within Shiv Sena. Similarly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20554,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20552\/revisions\/20554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}