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The PDP Bill has been under review by a Joint Parliamentary Committee since 2019, and the committee was recently given an extension till the winter session for presenting its report.
A motion was passed in the Lok Sabha today to appoint three new members to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, which has had several vacancies recently after multiple committee members were inducted into the Union Council of Ministers. Subsequently, another motion has also been passed, both introduced by the committee’s Chairman P.P. Chaudhry and committee member Bhartruhari Mahtab, to request the appointment of four members from the Rajya Sabha as well.
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Political parties, including the Congress and the Trinamul Congress, on Sunday demanded at an all-party meeting that the MPLADS funds be restored, sources said.
The Speaker, who chaired the meeting, assured them that he will raise the issue with the government, they said.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and floor leaders of various parties were present in the meeting on the eve of the Monsoon session of Parliament.
Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, TMC leader Sudeep Bandopadhyay, YSR Congress leader Midhun Reddy were among those who raised the issue.