The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has been reconstituted with the same members and Congress Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor will continue as its chairperson, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin released on Tuesday. The BJP-dominated committee — 16 members are from BJP — has one vacancy. Parliamentary Standing Committees have a one-year tenure after which they are reconstituted. The Tharoor-led committee was first constituted on September 13, 2019 and was thus effectively disbanded on September 13, 2020 after it last met on September 2. In its one year, the committee has discussed a number of contentious issues that have involved summoning Facebook’s India head and questioning the Department of Telecommunications over the year-long internet shutdown in Jammu and Kashmir. Departmentally related standing committees usually have 31 members: 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha. The committee currently has 30 since once of the Rajya Sabha MPs, Beni Prasad Verma (Samajwadi party), died on March 27. It is not clear if and when this vacancy will be filled. Current Composition 16 BJP, 4 Congress, 2 Trinamool Congress, 1 each from Shiv Sena, CPI(M), Samajwadi Party, TRS, TDP, Lok Janshakti Party, DMK and independent MPs Lok Sabha: Shashi Tharoor (Congress) — Chairperson Karti P. Chidambaram (Congress) Mahua Moitra (Trinamool Congress) Locket Chatterjee (BJP) Sunny Deol (BJP) Nishikant Dubey (BJP) Raksha Nikhil Khadse (BJP) Sukanta Majumdar (BJP) Nisith Pramanik (BJP) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (BJP) Sanjay Seth (BJP) S. Tejasvi Surya (BJP) Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma (BJP) Dhairyasheel Sambhajirao Mane…
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