New Delhi: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi is a member of the Standing Committee on Defence in the newly constituted Parliamentary Standing Committees for 2024-2025. The Department-Related Committees comprise Congress members chairing four committees, including the External Affairs.
Each committee is a combination of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha members.
The Congress has been given the chairmanship of four key panels.
The committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports will be headed by Digvijaya Singh, the committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing will be led by former Chief Minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi, Rural and Panchayati Raj will be led by Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka and Shashi Tharoor will head the External Affairs.
BJP’s Radha Mohan Singh will head the Defence committee. Bhartruhari Mahtab will head the committee on Finance.
Former Union Minister Anurag Thakur and Rajiv Pratap Rudy have been appointed chairman of committees on Coal, Mines and Steel, and Water Resources, respectively.
BJP member Nishikant Dubey has been appointed Communications and Information Technology Committee chairman.
Radha Mohan Das Agrawal of the BJP will head the committee on Home Affairs, and Dola Sen of the TMC will head the committee on Commerce.
Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party will head the panel on health and family welfare. Tiruchi Siva of the DMK will head the panel on Industry.
This committee is tasked with overseeing and providing legislative oversight on issues related to commerce, trade policies, and economic development in relation to India’s commerce sector.
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The committee is vital in reviewing policy matters and ensuring that the commerce sector contributes effectively to the nation’s economy.
The Committee on Communications and IT has as members SP Jaya Bachchan, SS (UBT) Priyanka Chaturvedi, BJD Sushmit Patra, and Congress KTS Tulsi from the Upper House, as well as BJP MPs Anil Baluni, Kangana Ranaut, and Poonam Madam and TMC’s Mahua Moitra from the Lok Sabha.
However, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s name is not on any of the committees. Major BJP allies such as the TDP and Janata Dal (United), as well as its partners in poll-bound Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena and the NCP, will head one committee each.
Former Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh will chair the Committee on Defence. Rahul Gandhi is a member of the panel on Defence. Haris Beeran, Samik Bhattacharya, Ajay Makan, Derek O’Brien, Nabam Rebia, Neeraj Shekhar, Kapil Sibal, GK Vasan and Sanjay Yadav are the other members of the panel on Defence.
BJP member Radha Mohan Das Agrawal will head the panel on Home Affairs.
The lone NCP Lok Sabha member, Sunil Tatkare, will head the panel on Petroleum and Natural Gas, and Shiv Sena’s Shrirang Appa Barne will helm the Energy committee. JDU’s Sanjay Jha will head the Transport, Tourism, and Culture committee. TDP MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy will chair the Housing and Urban Affairs committee.
DMK’s Tiruchi Siva and K Kanimozhi will chair the Industry and Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution committees, respectively.
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–IANS
