The committee, headed by young BJP MP Anurag Thakur, also has Hema Malini and Javed Akhtar from Mumbai filmdom and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Apart from BJP veteran L K Advani and Feroze Varun Gandhi, the committee has P Karunakaran and Deependra Hooda from Congress and Derek O'Brien of Trinamool Congress.
Opposition Congress got chairmanship of five parliamentary standing committees after failing to get the leader of opposition post in Lok Sabha. M Veerappa Moily, Shashi Tharoor and Pradeep Bhattacharya will head the committees on finance, external affairs and home respectively, while the science and technology committee will be headed by Ashwini Kumar and the panel on law and personnel by E M Sudarsana Natchiappan.
While Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be part of the external affairs committee, former PM Manmohan Singh will be a member of the panel on finance, which also has Congress leaders Digvijay Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia.
BJP leaders Jayant Sinha, S S Ahluwalia and Kirit Somaiah of the ruling party are also members of the parliamentary committee on finance.
Rahul is also a member of the Committee on Public Undertakings headed by senior BJP leader Shanta Kumar.
Another BJP veteran, Murli Manohar Joshi, has been appointed chairman of Estimates Committee of Parliament.
Among the younger lot in BJP, J P Nadda will chair the HRD committee and Rajiv Pratap Rudy will head the committee on energy. Former Uttarakhand CM B C Khanduri will head the committee on defence. BJP ally Shiv Sena's Anandrao Adsul has got the chairmanship of chemicals and fertilizers while TDP's J C Divakar Reddy will head the panel on food and consumer affairs.
Other BJP leaders who have got chairmanships of parliamentary committees include Chandan Mitra (commerce), Hukum Deo Narayan Yadav (agriculture), Virendra Kumar (labour), Prahlad Joshi (petroleum), Hukum Singh (water resources), Hansraj Ahir (coal) and Ramesh Bais (social justice). Ahir, who is a member from Chandrapur in Maharashtra, was in the forefront in the last Lok Sabha, in raising the issue of alleged scam in the allocation of coal blocks.
In all, ruling BJP will chair 11 standing committees of the 24. Non-NDA parties which have got chairmanship include Trinamool Congress members K D Singh (transport) and Dinesh Trivedi (railways), BJD member Pinaki Mishra (urban development), AIADMK's P Venugopal (rural development), Satish Chandra Misra of BSP (health) and K C Tyagi of JD-U (commerce and industry).
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