New Delhi, 1/4: Accusing the Modi government of pursuing an agenda of diluting environment and forest laws by viewing it as “regulatory burdens”, senior Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday claimed that the ruling BJP is sending contentious bills to a joint committee headed by a BJP MP rather than to a Standing Committee headed by Opposition lawmakers.
Ramesh was referring to the government sending the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 to a Joint Committee of Parliament and not to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change, which has the mandate to scrutinise such legislations. He heads the Standing Committee.
The Congress Rajya Sabha Chief Whip and party’s General Secretary (Communications), who earlier wrote to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar against the government move, also countered Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav’s claim that Congress governments sent a large number of Bills to Joint Committe
Comments are closed.