Congress Loses Key Parliamentary Panels
BJP's Jayant Sinha appointed as Committee on Finance's Chairperson,BJD's Pinaki Misra&Cong' Digvijaya Singh also appointed as members. BJP's PP Chaudhary appointed as Committee on External Affairs's Chairperson, Congress' P Chidambaram&SP's Jaya Bachchan also appointed as members pic.twitter.com/nKw0nJDtRA
— ANI (@ANI) September 13, 2019
Tharoor, who had headed the panel on external affairs committee in the 16th Lok Sabha, will now lead the Standing Committee on Information Technology.
However, Tharoor had expressed his dismay over the government's decision to deny the Opposition MP the chairperson’s post in the external affairs panel. He had tweeted: “In the entire history of Parliamentary Standing Committees, the [committee] on External Affairs has always been headed by an Opposition Lok Sabha MP. Our tradition is foreign policy bipartisanship: our political differences stop at the nation’s borders. Dismaying.”Congress' Shashi Tharoor appointed as Chairperson of Committee on Information Technology, Congress' Karti Chidambaram, BJP's Sunny Deol & TMC's Mahua Moitra also appointed as members. BJP's Satyanarayan Jatia appointed as Chairperson of Committee on Human Resource Development. pic.twitter.com/VyQ9XRitHn
— ANI (@ANI) September 13, 2019
While Anand Sharma is the only Congress MP to head a committee on home affairs, Rahul Gandhi has been moved from the parliamentary committee on external affairs to the panel on defence. Out of 24 standing committees, 13 committees are headed by BJP and four by Congress.In the entire history of Parliamentary Standing Committees, the Cmt on External Affairs has always been headed by an Opposition Lok Sabha MP. Our tradition is foreign policy bipartisanship: our political differences stop at the nation's borders. Dismaying.https://t.co/JRTIn207gi
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 10, 2019
Out of 24 parliamentary committees, chairmanship of 13 committees are with #BJP while 4 are with #Congress. Congress MPs who have got committee chairmanships are - Anand Sharma for Committee on Home Affairs, Shashi Tharoor for IT & Jairam Ramesh for Science and Technology pic.twitter.com/0TEKrYXE9J
— GoNews (@GoNews24x7) September 14, 2019
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