Eight Parliamentary Standing Committees re-constituted, P Chidambaram appointed to Home panel

Published on: 29 Aug 2023 at 10:03 AM

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The Fact News Service

New Delhi, August 29

Eight Department–related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs) were re-constituted by Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar including the appointment of senior Congress Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram to the 31-member Home panel, the Upper House of Parliament said on Tuesday.

The Rajya Sabha Chairman appointed Chidambaram as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs at a time when the panel is discussing the three proposed bills that are aimed at replacing the criminal justice laws–Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860, Indian Evidence Act, 1872, and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 as Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Sakshya and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita respectively.

The three bills were introduced in the Parliament by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on August 11.

There are 24 department-related standing committees (DRSCs). Each of these committees has 31 members – 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.

P Chidambaram’s appointment came as the place was vacant after the retirement of Congress’s P Bhattacharya. Party’s Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is already a member of the Home panel, headed by BJP MP Brij Lal.