Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will head the department-related parliamentary standing committee on external affairs and former Punjab CM and party MP Charanjit Singh Channi will head the panel on agriculture and animal husbandry.
A bulletin from the Lok Sabha on Wednesday night notified the reconstituted parliamentary committees with the incumbent chairpersons retained in all.
There are eight department related parliamentary standing committees of the Rajya Sabha and 15 of the Lok Sabha. Besides these 23 panels, there are two select committees. BJP MP Baijayant Panda will chair the Select Committee on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Amendment Bill 2025 and Tejasvi Surya will head the select panel on Jan Vishwas Amendment of Provisions Bill 2025.
Among RS panels — home committee will aga