BJP elects veterans Advani, Joshi, Kumar to parliamentary panels

BJP old guards LK Advani and Shanta Kumar have been elected to the Committee on Public Undertakings while Murli Manohar Joshi has been made a member in the Committee on Estimates as three parliamentary panels were reconstituted on Wednesday with their terms beginning on May 1.

BJP old guards LK Advani and Shanta Kumar have been elected to the Committee on Public Undertakings while Murli Manohar Joshi has been made a member in the Committee on Estimates as three parliamentary panels were reconstituted on Wednesday with their terms beginning on May 1.

BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi and leader LK Advani attend party's Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting in New Delhi. (PTI photo)

Elections to the committees on Estimates, Public Undertakings and Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were held on Tuesday while the Public Accounts Committee will be reconstituted soon. In a tough signal that it expects its MPs to take work seriously, BJP has dropped nearly a dozen members from these panels whose tenure ends on April 30.

The 20-member Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes include BJP MP and former Jharkhand DGP VD Ram and LJP MP Ramchandra Paswan.

The Committee on Estimates has 30 members. BJP members in the panel are Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Ram Tahal Choudhary Sonaram Choudhary, Raman Deka, Sanjay Dhotre, PC Gaddigoudar, Sudheer Gupta, Murli Manohar Joshi, Poonam Mahajan, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Rajesh Pandey, Ravindra Kumar Pandey, Raosaheb Danve Patil, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Anil Shirole, Jugal Kishore Sharma and Rajesh Verma.