New Delhi: The parliamentary panel constituted to scrutinise the 2 payments on simultaneous elections held its first assembly on Wednesday.
Officers of the Ministry of Regulation and Justice are briefing the panel members on the provisions of the proposed legal guidelines, sources stated.
Headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, the 39-member joint committee of Parliament includes members from all main events, together with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Congress, Sanjay Jha from JD(U), Shiv Sena’s Shrikant Shinde, AAP’s Sanjay Singh, and Kalyan Banerjee from Trinamool Congress.
Chaudhary is a former minister of state for regulation.
The Structure (129th Modification) Invoice and the Union Territories Legal guidelines (Modification) Invoice had been launched within the Lok Sabha in the course of the current Winter Session and referred to the committee.
The federal government determined to extend the committee’s power from 31 to 39, as extra political events expressed their want to be a part of the train to look at the 2 draft legislations on simultaneous elections.
Former Union ministers Anurag Thakur, Parshottam Rupala and Manish Tewari and several other different lawmakers, together with Anil Baluni, Bansuri Swaraj and Sambit Patra, are additionally members of the committee.
The panel has 27 members from the Lok Sabha and 12 from the Rajya Sabha.
