Parliamentary Standing Committees : Shashi Tharoor Retains Information Technology, Anand Sharma Home, Ravi Shankar Prasad Included In Finance Panel

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In a major decision various department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees were reconstituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in consultation with Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu.

Bharatiya Janata Party member Sushil Kumar Modi has been appointed the new chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, in place of Bhupender Yadav who has become a minister.

Senior Congress leader and MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Shashi Tharoor was retained as the chairman of the panel on Information Technology. Some BJP MP’s had sought his removal , That has now been rejected .

Senior Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma will continue to head the Parliamentary panel on Home Affairs. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh retains the chairmanship of the Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

According to the bulletins issued by both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats, the reconstituted committees for the year 2021-22 shall be with effect from September 13.

BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad has been included as a member in the Parliamentary panel on Finance and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank in the panel on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice.

Both Prasad and Nishank were dropped as Union ministers in the last cabinet reshuffle.

Former chief justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has been included as a member in the panel on Information Technology, while Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has been included in the panel on Railways.

Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress’s Vijaysai Reddy has been reappointed the chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce, Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav of Health and Family Welfare, Telangana Rashtra Samiti member K Keshava Rao of Industry, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s Kanimozhi on the panel on chemicals and fertilisers and Janata Dal-United’s Rajiv Ranjan Singh will head the panel on energy.

TMC member Sudip Bandyopadhyay will continue to head the panel on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution and Biju Janata Dal member Bhartruhari Mahtab of the panel on Labour.