The government has proposed to increase the number of members in the joint committee to examine the two bills proposing simultaneous elections from 31 to 39. This will allow more parties to be represented in the committee.
The list of Lok Sabha MPs proposed by the government now includes one member each from Shiv Sena (UBT), Marxist Communist Party (CPI-M) and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), along with two members from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one more member from Samajwadi Party. Is.
In the agenda of the House on Friday, there is a proposal by Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to send both the bills to a joint committee. The committee will include 27 members of the Lok Sabha and 12 members of the Rajya Sabha.
The new Lok Sabha members proposed in the committee include BJP’s Baijayant Panda and Sanjay Jaiswal, SP’s Chhote Lal, Shiv Sena’s (UBT) Anil Desai, LJP’s Shambhavi and CPI(M). Radhakrishnan’s name is included.
The committee will examine two bills including the “One Nation One Election” bill and a Constitution Amendment Bill. Apart from former Union ministers Anurag Thakur and P.P. Chaudhary, BJP’s Bhartrihari Mahatab and Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi are also among the Lok Sabha members proposed for the committee.
Of the Lok Sabha members, 17 are from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, including 12 from the BJP.
