NEW DELHI: The BJP is contemplating the names of its seasoned MPs Ravi Shankar Prasad and Nishikant Dubey as nominees for the parliamentary panel that can scrutinise simultaneous ballot payments, whereas Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari are set to be among the many Congress representatives, sources mentioned. Sukhdeo Bhagat and Randeep Surjewala are the Congress’ different selections for the joint committee of Parliament.
Kalyan Banerjee and Saket Gokhale of the Trinamool Congress, Shrikant Shinde of the Shiv Sena, Sanjay Jha of the JD(U), and T M Selvaganapathi and P Wilson of the DMK are anticipated to be a part of the panel which can have 31 members — 21 from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha. Sources mentioned Anurag Thakur and P P Chaudhary are additionally being thought-about because the possible BJP selections for the panel by which the saffron occasion and its allies will likely be in a majority attributable to their numerical superiority in Parliament.
The 2 ‘One Nation One Election’ (ONOE) payments, together with one requiring an modification within the Structure, that lay down the mechanism to carry simultaneous elections have been launched within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday after a fiery debate. Opposition events dubbed the draft legal guidelines — a Structure modification invoice and an unusual invoice — as an assault on the federal construction, a cost rejected by the federal government.
Talking to reporters on the Parliament premises, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi had termed the payments “anti-constitutional”. “It’s towards the federalism of our nation. We’re opposing the invoice,” she had mentioned.
The BJP and its allies such because the TDP, JD(U) and Shiv Sena have stoutly defended the payments, saying frequent elections are an obstruction to improvement programmes and simultaneous polls will enhance them by slicing down on election expenditure.
