Ravi Shankar appointed Chairman of Lok Sabha Privileges Committee

New Delhi: Speaker of Lok Sabha About Birla The Privileges Committee was established, a key panel of the House of Representatives tasked with investigating complaints against MPs for breaches of privilege and could even recommend their expulsion.Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party Ravi Shankar Prasad will lead the 15-member committee, eight of whom are from the NDP and the remainder from the Opposition. Congress MPs Manish Tewari and Manickam Tagore, TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee and DMK’s TR Baalu, and the BJP’s Brijmohan Agrawal and Jagdambika Pal are among its members.It is up to the Speaker to decide which privilege infringement notices are sent to committees. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nishikant Dubey has lodged a complaint against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of trying to destabilize the country. Birla is yet to respond.