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After BJP MP Nishikant Dubey raised objections on Shashi Tharoor's remarks on the Congress 'toolkit' issue, the Congress MP clarified that it was within the mandate of the parliamentary panel on IT to seek a clarification on Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's "contacts" with Twitter on the 'manipulated media' issue.
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Jairam Ramesh urges parliamentary standing committees be allowed to meet virtually.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday demanded Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla allow parliamentary standing committees to meet virtually to discuss issues of urgent public importance.
Ramesh, the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, has been calling for allowing the holding of Committee meetings virtually in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
Naidu had earlier disallowed the request, citing rules and secrecy issues. I am requesting this once again for the umpteenth time. Speaker Lok Sabha Om Birla and Chairman Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu, please allow virtual meetings of Standing Committees. There are so many issues of utmost public importance that need to be discussed urgently, he said in a tweet.
Majority parliamentary panel meetings postponed amid COVID-19 surge ANI | Updated: Apr 16, 2021 16:20 IST
By Ashoke Raj
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): With India witnessing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in recent days, various meetings of the Parliamentary Standing Committees have been postponed due to the surge in coronavirus infections.
The meeting of the Standing committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, scheduled to be held on April 19, has been postponed. Members are informed that the meeting of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice scheduled to be held at 3 pm on Monday, April 19 stands postponed due to prevailing Covid situation. The next date of the meeting of the Committee will be intimated in due course, a Rajya Sabha Secretariat letter read on Friday.
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