Raghav Chadha appointed chairman of Committee on Petitions in Rajya Sabha days after becoming a member of BJP | India Information
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan has reconstituted the Higher Home’s Committee on Petitions, naming MP Raghav Chadha because the panel’s chairperson.After reconstituting the committee, Radhakrishnan, who can also be the Vice President of India, nominated 10 Higher Home members to the panel.“Raghav Chadha has been appointed Chairman of the Committee. The panel has been reconstituted by the Rajya Sabha Chairman with impact from Might 20,” a Rajya Sabha notification stated.Aside from Chadha, the committee contains Harsh Mahajan, Gulam Ali, Shambhu Sharan Patel, Mayankkumar Nayak, Masthan Rao Yadav Beedha, Jebi Mather Hisham, Subhasish Khuntia, Rwngwra Narzary, and Sandosh Kumar P.The event comes after Chadha and 6 different Rajya Sabha MPs switched allegiance from the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP). The others who crossed over had been Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Swati Maliwal, Vikramjit Singh Sahney, Rajinder Gupta, and former cricketer Harbhajan Singh.The defections decreased the AAP’s energy within the Rajya Sabha to simply three members.In distinction, the BJP’s tally within the Higher Home stood at 106 members earlier, whereas the BJP-led NDA had 141 MPs. Following the most recent additions, these numbers have risen to 113 and 148, respectively. With greater than 30 Rajya Sabha seats set to fall vacant by the tip of the yr, the BJP is hopeful of securing at the very least 5 extra seats, bringing it nearer to the two-thirds majority mark of 163.
