"Allow Virtual Parliamentary Committees": Trinamool Reiterates Again "Allow Virtual Parliamentary Committees": Trinamool Reiterates Again Citing the confidentiality clause, the centre has said no to opposition requests in the past. Called mini-Parliament, these Committees hold the government accountable on micro-issues (File) New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress has written another letter, its third, to both Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla underscoring the need to hold virtual meetings of parliamentary committees as the deadly second wave of the coronavirus sweeping through a wide swathe of the country has been worsening the health crisis. Referred to as mini-Parliament, these Committees hold the government accountable on micro-issues.