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Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar named chemicals panel chair
Hindustan Times··6d ago
Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar was named chairperson of the chemicals and fertilisers parliamentary panel. The Saturday reshuffle also made BJP's Sudhanshu Trivedi head of the commerce committee. Dastidar said there is no contradiction in holding the post as a TMC MP. She thanked Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for entrusting the responsibility.
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What It Means For You
- Dastidar will lead a standing committee that also oversees the pharmaceutical sector.
- She said the Speaker has already allowed her group a separate seating arrangement.
- A proposed merger of the rebel faction with NCPI remains pending before Om Birla.
What's Happening
- TMC lost chairperson berths in the standing committee reshuffle on Saturday.
- Dastidar is described as the face of the TMC rebel faction in the report.
- She denied any decision to join the BJP after a colleague raised that prospect.
How The Panel Reshuffle Worked
- Sixteen parliamentary committee chairs are decided by the Lok Sabha Speaker.
- The remaining eight chairs are decided by the Rajya Sabha Chairman, she said.
- Dastidar said party affiliation matters less than the presiding officers' choices.
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