After shunting her out of the HRD Ministry, Smriti Irani was on Saturday dropped as a special invitee from crucial Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) too. Irani's successor in the Human Resources Development Ministry Prakash Javadekar was elevated as a member from special invitee.
In the recent Cabinet reshuffle, Irani was shifted from the HRD Ministry to Textiles.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who has been divested of his Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs portfolio, too has been dropped as a special invitee and replaced by S S Ahluwalia who is now the junior minister in the Ministry. Newly-inducted Minister of State in the law Ministry P P Chaudhary has also been made a special invitee.
Najma Heptulla, the Minority Affairs Minister who had resigned from the Union Cabinet earlier this week, is no more a member of the panel.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, the new law Minister, replaces his predecessor D V Sadananda Gowda in the panel.
The CCPA, headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, is mandated to recommend the dates of Parliament sessions. It has 11 members, including three special invitees.
Other members are Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu, Ram Vilas Paswan and Ananth Kumar.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is another special invitee, a fresh list issued by the Cabinet Secretariat said.