NEW DELHI: Textiles minister Smriti Irani, who lost her education portfolio in the reshuffle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers, has been dropped from the cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs.
Irani has been replaced by her successor at the human resource development ministry, Prakash Javadekar, who was elevated to the cabinet minister’s rank. Javadekar was earlier a special invitee to the committee.
According to a list of cabinet committees put out this week, skill development minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who was divested of the charge of the parliamentary affairs portfolio, was moved out of the cabinet committee too. He has been replaced by SS Ahluwalia, who is the junior minister in the ministry. Junior law minister PP Chaudhary has also been made a special invitee.
Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also replaces his predecessor DV Sadananda Gowda in the panel. The CCPA, headed by home minister Rajnath Singh, is mandated to recommend the dates of Parliament sessions. It has 11 members.