NEW DELHI: The Congress today accused the Government of “arbitrarily” taking away the chairmanship of a parliamentary panel on personnel, public grievances, law and justice from it, and sought a rethink on such allocations.
In a strongly-worded letter to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad objected to the fact that the party was not re-allocated the chairmanship of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice.
He demanded that the Government reconsider the allocations.
The Government, however, justified the reallocation on the ground that after the change of strength of parties in the Rajya Sabha following recent elections, the Congress could retain the chairmanships of two committees, and not three. (AGENCIES)
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