KC Venugopal with Rahul Gandhi. (PTI)
The PAC is chargeable for auditing the expenditure and income of the Union authorities and in addition retains an account of whether or not the Centre has spent the cash assigned to a specific demand for grant underneath numerous heads
KC Venugopal, one of the vital highly effective basic secretaries within the Congress and Member of Parliament within the Lok Sabha from Kerala, is about to tackle yet one more duty as he’s more likely to be appointed the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
Elected to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2020, Venugopal received his Lok Sabha seat in 2024 from Alappuzha. Other than being the overall secretary (organisation) for the Grand Previous Occasion, he has additionally been minister of state in UPA-1. At current, he’s additionally the deputy whip for the Congress within the Decrease Home.
As a mark of parliamentary custom, the committee’s chairmanship is given to the Opposition. Earlier than the final Lok Sabha elections, between 2014 and 2019, Congress’s Lok Sabha chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was the chairman.
Nonetheless, the BJP, which is the single-largest get together within the Lok Sabha, has put sturdy MPs within the committee from its aspect.
Nishikant Dubey, who was a part of the PAC between 2009 and 2019, has as soon as once more been made a member of the panel. Alongside him, former Union minister Anurag Singh Thakur can also be being made a member of this committee. Thakur was a part of the committee for practically 5 years from 2014 and needed to excuse himself as soon as he was made a Union minister.
One other senior member of the BJP and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad can also be a part of the essential finance committee. The BJP has additionally given a chance to certainly one of its younger weapons in Bengaluru — MP Tejashwi Surya — to be part of the committee.
The Lok Sabha on Thursday introduced the outcomes of the election to the Public Accounts Committee. Veteran chief Jagdambika Pal, first-time Lok Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh CM Ramesh, Aparajita Sarangi and Trivendra Rawat are the opposite members which were elected to the committee from BJP. Other than Venugopal, senior MP Dr Amar Singh from Congress, TR Baalu from DMK, Dharmendra Yadav from Samajwadi Occasion and professor Sougata Roy are some members of the opposition within the committee. BJP’s allies from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, TDP MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy and Jana Sena MP Balashowry Vallabhaneni, have additionally been elected as members to this panel.
The committee can even have seven elected members from the Rajya Sabha — Shakti Sinh Gohil of congress, Subhendu Sekhar Ray of TMC and Tiruchi Siva of DMK. The BJP has elected Dr Ok Lakshman, Sudhanshu Trivedi and former Maharashtra CM Ashokrao Chavan together with ally NCP senior chief and former union minister Praful Patel to the panel.
Together with the Estimates Committee and Committee on Public Enterprise, the Public Accounts Committee kinds the essential Finance Committee.
The PAC is chargeable for auditing the expenditure and income of the federal government of India. It additionally retains an account of whether or not the federal government of India has spent the cash that has been assigned to a specific demand for grant underneath numerous heads.
