Vice-President of India and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari has named Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from the State Anil Madhav Dave as the chairman of the select committee for ‘The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill’ that he constituted on Friday.
Ansari named senior parliamentarian from the State in the upper house Anil Madhav Dave as the chairman of the select committee for that has 23 members including Chandan Mitra, Bhupendra Yadav, Mani Shankar Ayer, Shantaram Nayak, Bhuvneshwar Kalita, KC Tyagi, Sukhendru Shekhar Rai, KN Balgopal, Naresh Agarwal, Praful Patel, Kanimozhi, Sanjay Raut, Meer Mohammed Fayaz, D Raja, Hishey lachungpa, and Rajeev Chandrashekhar and others.
Corruption has always been most talked about and controversial subject of the country in that scams to the tune of thousands of crores and financial irregularities have been exposed. Discussions and difference of opinion is also going on over the amendment in the Corruption Prevention Act 1988 for long in the house.
The chairman of the upper house constituted the select committee with a condition after discussions over the amendment were completed that the committee would submit its report in the house after due considerations on the last day of the first week of the next session of the house.
Notably, in the last session of the parliament Dave chaired the select committee Real Estate regulations and development Act 2015 and all the suggestions and report of the committee were accepted by the union cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Now this Bill would be brought in the parliament for discussion and getting clearance of the house.