BJP's Sanjay Jaiswal to head key parliamentary panel

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday nominated BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal as the chairperson of the Estimates Committee, a key parliamentary panel for scrutinising government ministries and departments on their expenditure and utilisation of funds.

The term of the committee, which has 30 members, will be for a year till April 2024, a statement said.

Jaiswal will chair the panel following the death of its preceding head Girish Bapat in March this year. While there is one vacancy, the other 29 members of the panel include BSP's Kunwar Danish Ali, TMC's Kalyan Banerjeem BJP's Sudarshan Bhagat, P P Chaudhary, Nihal Chand Chauhan, Dilip Saikia, Harish Dwivedi, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, BJD's Pinaki Misra and DMK's Dayanidhi Maran among others.