Ex-Union minister P P Choudhary, a BJP MP from Rajasthan’s Pali, is set to lead the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on ‘one nation, one election’ bills. Speaker Om Birla is said to have finalised the names of 21 Lok Sabha members. The rest 10 MPs in the panel will be from Rajya Sabha.
The JPC has many first-time LS members, including Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and BJP’s Anil Baluni, Sambit Patra and Bansuri Swaraj. NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule is the third woman LS member in the JPC. Anurag Thakur (BJP), Manish Tewari (Cong), TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee and SP’s Dharmendra Yadav are senior members in the panel.
First-time MPs Priyanka, Patra, Baluni, Bansuri in ONOE panel
BJP MP from Rajasthan’s Pali and former Union minister PP Choudhary is set to lead the joint parliamentary committee on the “one nation, one election” bills, as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is said to have finalised the names of 21 Lower House members for the panel. The remaining 10 MPs of the 31-member panel will be from Rajya Sabha.
The panel has several first-time Lok Sabha members, including Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and BJP’s Anil Baluni, Sambit Patra and Bansuri Swaraj.
Other than Priyanka and Bansuri, NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule is the third woman Lok Sabha member in the panel. Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal is likely to move the motion on formation of the committee in the Lower House on Thursday.
Other than Priyanka, Manish Tewari and Sukhdeo Bhagat are the other Congress representatives in the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) that will scrutinise the two bills proposing simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls. TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee, DMK’s TM Selvaganapathi and Samajwadi Party’s Dharmendra Yadav are also set to be members of the panel.
Senior MPs Purushottam Rupala, Anurag Thakur, Bhartruhari Mahtab, Vishnu Dayal Ram and CM Ramesh are the other BJP representatives in the panel. Among BJP’s allies, Shiv Sena’s Shrikant Shinde, TDP’s G M Harish Balayogi, RLD’s Chandan Chauhan and Jan Sena Party’s Balashowry Vallabhaneni will be in the panel. The two bills, including one requiring an amendment in Constitution, lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous polls and were introduced in LS on Tuesday after a fiery debate. Opposition parties dubbed the draft laws – a Constitution amendment bill and an ordinary bill – as an attack on the federal structure, a charge rejected by govt.