By PTI
👥 Key Members Announced
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) for scrutinizing two bills on simultaneous elections will include:
- Anurag Thakur (BJP)
- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (Congress)
- P P Chaudhary (BJP, former MoS for Law)
🔖 Committee Details:
- 21 Lok Sabha members and 10 Rajya Sabha members will form the 31-member panel.
- The motion for the committee’s constitution will be moved by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal.
🪧 Potential Chairperson:
- P P Chaudhary is the frontrunner, with Anurag Thakur also considered a contender.
- Speaker Om Birla will finalize the chairperson.
📜 Notable Members
Lok Sabha Representatives:
- From BJP:
- Parshottambhai Rupala, Bhartruhari Mahtab, Anil Baluni, C M Ramesh, Bansuri Swaraj, Vishnu Dayal Ram, Sambit Patra
- 14 NDA representatives in total (10 from BJP)
- From Other Parties:
- Congress: Manish Tewari, Sukhdeo Bhagat
- Shiv Sena: Shrikant Shinde
- Samajwadi Party: Dharmendra Yadav
- TMC: Kalyan Banerjee
- DMK: T M Selvaganapathi
- NCP: Supriya Sule
- RLD: Chandan Chauhan
- Jana Sena Party: Balashowry Vallabhaneni
- TDP: G M Harish Balayogi
Rajya Sabha:
- 10 members will be named separately in a forthcoming communication.
📑 About the ‘One Nation One Election’ Bills
The committee will evaluate proposed changes to the Constitution for implementing simultaneous elections, a highly debated policy aimed at streamlining India’s electoral process.
