Land acquisition bill: BJP Lok Sabha member Ganesh Singh appointed as new head of panel

BJP Lok Sabha member Ganesh Singh has been appointed the new chairperson of the Joint Committee of Parliament examining the contentious land bill. Singh, who was already member of the panel, replaces S S Ahluwalia who became Minister of the State for Parliamentary Affairs in the July 5 reshuffle of the council of ministers. The first task at hand for Singh on Friday was to move a resolution in the Lok Sabha seeking the

seventh extension of the term of the panel. The resolution giving fresh extension till “the last day of the Winter session” was passed by a voice vote in the Lower House, amid noisy protests over the issue of AAP MP Bhagwant Mann’s videography of the Parliament complex.

“Yes, I have been appointed as the chairman…the next meeting will be held after the (Monsoon) session,” Singh told PTI. The resolution moved by him in Lok Sabha said: “That this House do extend time for presentation of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015 upto the last day of the Winter Session, 2016.”

Land acquisition bill: BJP Lok Sabha member Ganesh Singh appointed as new head of panel