LS: 7 Standing Committees reconstituted: Vijay Sonkar will head Ethics and C. R. Patil will continue to head Housing Committee

New Delhi: The Speaker Shri Om Birla has re-constituted the Seven Standing Committees of Lok Sabha. BJP’s Shri Vinod Kumar Sonkar will be the Chairman of Committee on Ethics, Shri C.R.Patil will continue to head the housing Committee besides the Ravneet singh , Rajendera Aggarwal , Girish Chandra, Balashowry Vallabhaneni and Harish Dwivedi of various other committees.

The Speaker has nominated Shri Vinod Kumar Sonkar as Chairperson of Committee on Ethics Shri Kunwar Danish Ali, Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre , Smt. Sunita Duggal, Shri Hemant Tukaram Godse, Smt. Preneet Kaur, Shri P.R. Natarajan, Shri Uttam Kumar Nalamada Reddy, Dr. Rajdeep Roy, Smt. Aparajita Sarangi, Shri Sumedhanand Saraswati, Shri Vishnu Datt Sharma, Shri Ve. Vaithilingam , Shri Balashowry Vallabhaneni and Shri Giridhari Yadav will be other members of committee.

Shri Ravneet Singh will be new Chairperson of Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House. The Speaker has nominated the following members to the Committee Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ms. Bhavana Gawali (Patil), Shri Suresh Kumar Kashyap, Shri Kanakmal Katara, Shri Shankar Lalwani, Shri Bheemrao Baswanthrao Patil, Shri Gautham Sigamani Pon, Shri Prathap Simha , Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singari , Shri Dharambir Singh , Shri Ram Shiromani Verma and three seats are vacant.

Members of Committee on Government Assurances will be headed by Shri Rajendra Aggarwal. The Speaker has nominated the following members to the Committee Shri Nihal Chand Chauhan, Shri Gaurav Gogoi, Shri Ramesh Chander Kaushik, Shri Kaushlendra Kumar, Shri Khagen Murmu, Shri Ashok Mahadeorao Nete, Shri Santosh Pandey, Shri M.K. Raghavan, Prof. Sougata Ray, Shri Chandra Sekhar Sahu, Shri Indra Hang Subba, Smt. Supriya Sadanand Sule and two vacancies will be filled later.

The Speaker has appointed Shri Girish Chandra Chairperson of Members of Committee on Papers Laid on the Table. The other following members to the Committee will be Shri Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Dr. A. Chellakumar, Shri Pallab Lochan Das, Shri Choudhury Mohan Jatua, Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser, Dr. Amol Ramsing Kolhe , Shri Bharat Ram Margani , Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, Smt. Aparupa Poddar, Shri T. N. Prathapan, Shri Sellaperumal Ramalingam, Shri Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka , Shri Devendrappa Y and Shri Ashok Kumar Yadav.

Shri Balashowry Vallabhaneni will be the Chairperson of Members of Committee on Subordinate Legislation. The Speaker has nominated the following members to the committee Shri Manickam Tagore B. , Shri Pinaki Misra , Dr. Pritam Gopinath Rao Munde, Shri Chandeshwar Prasad, Shri N.K. Premachandran, Shri Suresh Kumar Pujari, Shri A. Raja , Shri Nama Nageswara Rao, Shri Sanjay Seth, Dr. Amar Singh, Shri Brijendra Singh, Shri Su. Thirunavukkarasar, Shri Ram Kripal Yadav and one seat is vacant.

The Speaker has renominated Shri C.R. Patil Chairperson of the Housing Committee . Shri Manickam Tagore B., Shri Kalyan Banerjee, Shri Shrirang Appa Barne , Shri Sudheer Gupta, Smt. Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Smt. Jaskaur Meena, Sh. M V V Satyanarayana, Shri Gopal Chinayya Shetty, Shri Gowdar Mallikarjuappa Siddeshwara , Smt. Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo will be other members. One seat is kept vacant.

Members of Committee on Petitions will be headed by Shri Harish Dwivedi . The Speaker has nominated the following members to the Committee Shri Harish Dwivedi Chairperson, Shri Anto Antony, Shri Hanuman Beniwal, Prof. Sanjay Sadashivrao Mandlik, Shri P. Ravindhranath, Dr. Jayanta Kumar Roy , Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant , Shri Brijendra Singh , Shri Sunil Kumar Singh , Shri Sushil Kumar Singh , Shri Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Shri Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava , Shri Rajan Baburao Vichare and two seats are vacant.