Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and senior Congress leader has appointed a member of the standing committee on defence in the parliament. The parliament restructure its standing committees, with the formation of 24 key committees.
The Defence Affairs Committee will be chair by Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Radha Mohan Singh.
Bhartiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey has been given chairmanship of the Communications and Information Technology committee.
Kangana Ranaut is also part of the committee, making it her first official role in parliamentary affairs.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will lead the Foreign Affairs Committee, which also includes Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Arun Govil.
While Congress leader Digvijaya Singh will lead the Parliamentary Committee on Women, Education, Youth, and Sports Affairs, and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ram Gopal Yadav will chair the Health Affairs Committee.
Standing committees are responsible for overseeing many union ministries, scrutinising budgetary allocations, reviewing bills introduce in Parliament, and advising the government on key issues.
All these peoples also recommend the formulation of policies and introduction of new bills.
Bhartiya Janata Party leader Radha Mohan Das Agarwal will head the Home Affairs committee, BJP MP Bhartruhari Mahtab the Committee on Finance, CM Ramesh will head the Parliamentary Committee on Railways, Anurag Thakur will lead the panel on Coal, Mines and Steel.
Sunil Tatkare, the single NCP member in the Lok Sabha, will head the committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shiv Sena’s Shrirang Appa Barne committee on Energy, Sanjay Jha of JD(U) the committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture, TDP’s Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy the committee on Housing and Urban Affairs, Charanjit Singh Channi and Saptagiri Ulaka will lead the committees on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing, and Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, respectively.
DMK’s Tiruchi Siva and K Kanimozhi will chair the committees on Industry, and Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution and Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy will lead the committee on Water Resources.
In all this you can find absent from the list of committee leaders is UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
