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Lok Sabha Speaker has constituted a 31-member Joint Committee of Parliament to examine controversial bills to remove the prime minister, chief ministers and Union/state cabinet ministers, if they are arrested or detained for 30 days straight on serious charges.

It will be headed by BJP Lok Sabha MP Aparajita Sarangi who also happens to be a former IAS officer.

When controversial bills were introduced in the last session of Parliamenyt, principal opposition parties has announced their boycott of the JPC.

There are four opposition MPS in the 31-member JPC that also includes 15 from the BJP, 11 from NDA constituents and one nominated member.

NCP-SP leader Supriya Sule, Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and YSRCP member Niranjan Reddy from the opposition parties have been named as members of the Joint Committee on the bills — The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025; The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025; and The Government Of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025, according to a Lok Sabha Secretariat statement.
The majority of the NDA constituents are part of this JPC that also includes  Sudha Murty, a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha.

Besides Sarangi, BJP’s Lok Sabha members Ravi Shankar Prasad, Bhartruhari Mahtab, Pradan Baruah, Brijmohan Agrawal, Vishnu Dayal Ram, D K Aruna, Parshottambhai Rupala, and Anurag Thakur are part of the committee.

BJP’s Rajya Sabha members Brij Lal, Ujjwal Nikam, Nabam Rebia, Neeraj Shekhar, Manan Kumar Mishra and K Laxman are also part of the panel.

The NDA MPS are Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP), Devesh Chandra Thakur (JD-U), Dhairyasheel Mane (SS), Balashowry Vallabhaneni (JSP), Indra Hang Subba (SKM), Sunil Tatkare (NCP), M Mallesh Babu (JD-S), Joyanta Basumatary (UPPL), Rajesh Verma (LJSP-RV), Birendra Prasad Baishya (AGP) and C V Shanmugam (AIADMK).

It may be recalled that the Constitution amendment bill along with two other proposed laws were introduced on the last day of the Monsoon session of Parliament on August 20.

The Speaker Om Birla had referred the bills to a joint committee of Parliament.