Parliamentary Committees reshuffle: TMC loses both chairperson posts

The Trinamool Congress party experienced a significant administrative reshuffle on Saturday, as it lost both chairperson positions on six of the 24 Standing Parliamentary Committees. This occurred following a group of TMC MPs switching allegiance to the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) after the recent West Bengal Assembly elections.

The committee headed by TMC Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen will now be led by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi, while the Chemicals Committee, previously headed by TMC MP Kirti Azad, will be overseen by Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who claims to have merged with the NCPI. TMC party officials reacted strongly to the reshuffle, with TMC Parliamentary Leader Derek O'Brien asserting that the "Parliament is being turned into a deep, dark chamber."

The TMC leader emphasized that the BJP now leads the Rajya Sabha, followed by the INC and AITC, yet TMC's chairpersonship has been removed for the third consecutive term. Other committee chairperson changes included Congress Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh being replaced by Mukul Wasnik to head the education committee, while the BJP reorganized three of its committee chairpersons, including replacing Brij Lal with Sujeet Kumar for the Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice committee, and Basavaraj Bommai with Shashank Mani for the Labour, Textiles and Skill Development committee.