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Kirit Somaiya becomes Par committee member

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jul 19 2016 | 7:28 PM IST
Kirit Somaiya of BJP was today became a member of Parliament's Joint Committee on the Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debt Law and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Bill in place of another party member P P Chaudhary, who resigned following his appointment as a Union minister.
Lok Sabha passed this motion with a voice vote.
The House also asked Rajya Sabha to name replacements for Praful Patel, Satish Mishra and K C Tyagi, who had recently retired.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan also announced the resignation of three members -- Sarbananda Sonowal (BJP), Mehbooba Mufti (PDP) and Suvendu Adhikari (TMC).
Sonowal and Mufti are now chief ministers of Assam and Jammu and Kashmir respectively and resigned following their election to their state assemblies. Adhikari too was elected as an MLA from West Bengal and made a minister in the Mamata Banerjee government.
Their resignation has been accepted, she informed the House.

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First Published: Jul 19 2016 | 7:28 PM IST

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