“Bravo TMC Dola Sen heading Commerce and DMK Kanimozhi heading Consumer Affairs,” O’Brien added.The parliamentary standing committees were constituted on Thursday.The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Bhartruhari Mahtab will head the key panel on finance and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will head the panel on external affairs.The committee on defence will be chaired by former Union minister Radha Mohan Singh, while the panel on home affairs will be headed by BJP MP Radha Mohan Das Agrawal.The department-related standing committees, which have representation from across party lines, act as mini parliaments and keep a tab on the functioning of various ministries.
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