The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on two bills related to the One Nation One Election is underway in New Delhi. The Bills are officially named as the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024.
Talking to the media, Committee Chairperson, BJP MP, PP Chaudhary said that on the first day today, there will just be a briefing by the concerned ministry. He said, as far as the procedure is concerned, the committee will make an effort to listen to all stakeholders be it legal experts, members of civil society or from judiciary, or political parties. He added that together with all members, the committee will decide to proceed further after taking inputs from everyone.
During the meeting, the representatives of the Ministry of Law and Justice (Legislative Department) will brief the members on the provisions of the proposed laws.
The 39-member committee has 27 Members from the Lok Sabha and 12 Members from the Rajya Sabha. The Committee will submit its report by the first day of the last week of the next Parliament session. The panel consist of BJP leaders PP Chaudhary, Anurag Singh Thakur, and Parshottambhai Rupala, Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Manish Tewari, TMC’s Kalyan Bannerjee, NCP (SP)’s Supriya Sule among others from Lok Sabha as members. From Rajya Sabha Ghanshyam Tiwari, Bhubaneswar Kalita and K. Laxman of BJP Randeep Singh Surjewala and Mukul Wasnik of Congress and Sanjay Kumar Jha of JDU and V. Vijayasai Reddy of YSR Congress among others are the members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee.
