Rahul on HRD panel, Keshava Rao stays
Young Congress MP from Amethi Rahul Gandhi has become member of the parliamentary standing committee on human resource development, which is headed senior party leader Oscar Fernandes.
According to official sources, 23 parliamentary panels, including the one looking into the affairs of HRD, have been reconstituted to make them cohesive and more effective.
Congress MP in Rajya Sabha K. Keshava Rao, however, continues to be on the parliamentary panel looking after the affairs of HRD ministry. Interestingly, Mr Rao’s criticism of the ministry headed by Kapil Sibal led the fall of government’s cherished Educational Tribunal Bill 2010 in Rajya Sabha.
Former BJP president M. Venkaiah Naidu heads the committee on home affairs, where senior party leader L.K. Advani is a member. T. Subbirami Reddy continues to be the chairman on the committee on science and technology, which recently went into the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill. Three Congress spokespersons Jayanti Natrajan, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Manish Tewari are on the panel attached to personnel, public grievances, law and justice, which is headed by Ms Natrajan. Noted criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav are also members of the committee. Former finance minister Yashwant Sinha of the BJP heads the committee on finance, which has sulking Andhra Pradesh leader Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy as its member. CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury continues to head the committee on transport, tourism and culture, which has senior Congress leader V. Kishore Chandra Deo as one of the members.
CPI(M) leader in the Lok Sabha Basudeb Acharia heads the committee on agriculture, which has Satyavrat Chaturvedi of the Congress who has been a known critic of agriculture minister Sharad Pawar as one of the members.
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