The Joint Parliamentary Committee under the chairpersonship of Meenakshi Lekhi, which is looking into the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, has sought comments on the Bill. Comments on the bill may be emailed to jpc-datalaw@sansad.nic.in or at mrs.mlekhi@sansad.nic.in. Given that the press communique (English, Hindi) is dated February 4, the deadline for submissions should be February 25, 2020. It has already been published in Hindustan Times (Page 4). Note that the comments submitted to the Committee will be treated as confidential, and would enjoy the privilege of the Committee, that is, they will not be made public by the Committee. The Committee currently includes 28 members, of which 15 are from the BJP, 3 from the INC, 1 from TMC, 2 from BJD, 1 each from DMK, YSR Congress, Shiv Sena, BSP, JDU, AIADMK, and TRS: 20 members from the Lok Sabha: Meenakshi Lekhi, BJP; PP Chaudhary, BJP; SS Ahluwalia, BJP; Tejasvi Surya, BJP; Ajay Bhatt, BJP; Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, BJP; Sanjay Jaiswal, BJP; Kiritbhai Solanki, BJP; Arvind Dharmapuri, BJP; Dr. Heena Gavit, BJP; Uday Pratap Singh, BJP; Raving Ranjan Singh, JDU; Gaurav Gogoi, INC; Kanimozhi, DMK; PV Midhun Reddy, YSR Congress; Dr. Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena; Bhartruhari Mahtab, BJD; Ritesh Pandey, BSP and 10 members from the Rajya Sabha: Bhupendra Yadav, BJP; Suresh Prabhu, BJP; Rajeev Chandrasekhar, BJP; Ashwini Vaishnaw, BJP; Jairam Ramesh, INC; Vivek K. Tankha, INC; Derek O’Brien, TMC; A. Navaneethakrishnan, AIADMK; Ram Gopal Yadav, TRS; Amar Patnaik, BJD. Note that S. Jothi Mani (INC)…
