Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentarian Girish Bhalchandra Bapat on Monday was appointed as the Chairperson of Estimates Committee of Lok Sabha for 2019-2010. The tenure of the newly elected Committee on Estimates will end on April 30, 2020. Apart from the Chairperson, the standing committee on Estimates has 29 other members of the House.
The Parliament has three financial standing committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Estimates Committee (EC) and Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU).
While earlier on July 26, 29 MPs were elected opposed to the committee from the Lok Sabha. The all 30 members of the committee include:
- Ali Kunwar Danish
- Kalyan Banerjee
- Girish Bhalchandra Bapat
- Sudarshan Bhagat
- Pradan Barua
- Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan
- PP Choudhury
- PC Gaddigoudar
- Dilip Ghosh
- Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal
- Dharmendra Kashyap
- Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya
- Dayanidhi Maran
- K Murlidharan
- SS Palanimanickam
- Kamlesh Paswan
- KC Patel
- Colonel Rajyavardhan Rathore
- Vinayak Bhaurao Raut
- Ashok Kumar Rawat
- Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy
- Rajeeb Pratap Rudy
- Cosme Francisco Caitano Sardinha
- Jugal Kishore Sharma
- Pratap Sinha
- Dharamveer Singh
- Sangeeta Kumari Singh Dev
- Kesineni Srinivas
- Sunil Dattatray Tatkare
- Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Girish Bhalchandra Bapat appointed as the Chairperson of Estimates Committee (2019-2020) of Lok Sabha. 29 other members of the House have been made members of the committee. pic.twitter.com/eQHovlwtIE
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While last week, Congress leader in Lok Sabha and West Bengal MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was appointed as the chairmanship of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament.
As per the tradition, the post of PAC of the parliament goes to the main opposition party. The Indian National Congress, with 52 MPs, is the second-largest party in the Lok Sabha. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has 15 members from Lok Sabha while seven are from the Rajya Sabha.