Govt set to move motion over JPC for simultaneous poll bills
Hindustan Times Uttarakhand|December 19, 2024
The Union government will formally move a motion in the Lok Sabha on Thursday to constitute a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on two bills that aim to usher in simultaneous national and state elections, and propose the names of 21 lawmakers of the Lower House as members.
HT Correspondent

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The names will include Congress's newly elected MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Bharatiya Janata Party lawmakers Bansuri Swaraj, Anurag Thakur and Bhartruhari Mahtab, among others. The motion will also make way for the inclusion of 10 MPs from the Rajya Sabha, and the panel will be asked to submit its report on the first day of the last week of the 2025 Budget session.

"Arjun Ram Meghwal (law minister) to move that the bill further to amend the Constitution of India and the Bill further to amend the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 be referred to a Joint Committee of the Houses consisting of the following 21 Members from this House," said the list of business of the Lower House for Thursday.

Surjewala is also likely to be a member of the JPC. Samajwadi Party's Dharmendra Yadav, Trinamool Congress's Kalyan Banerjee, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's TM Selvaganapathi's names were also included in the proposal for the JPC. Telugu Desam Party's GM Harish Balayogi, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Supriya Sule, Shiv Sena's Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Rashtriya Lok Dal's Chandan Chauhan and Janasena's Balashoury Vallabhaneni were set to be the other members.

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