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Manmohan Singh nominated to parliamentary standing committee on finance

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India
Nov 11, 2019 03:23 PM IST

Former prime minister and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh was nominated in place of Digvijaya Singh.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu has nominated former prime minister and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh to the parliamentary standing committee on finance in place of party colleague Digvijaya Singh.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former vice president Hamid Ansari during a reception organised on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)(PTI8_15_2019_000305B)(PTI Photo)
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former vice president Hamid Ansari during a reception organised on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav)(PTI8_15_2019_000305B)(PTI Photo)

Digvijaya Singh has now been nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on urban development by the chairman of the Upper House, according to a Rajya Sabha bulletin.

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“The Rajya Sabha chairman has nominated Manmohan Singh, member, Rajya Sabha, to be a member of the committee on finance in place of Digvijaya Singh. The chairman has also nominated Digvijaya Singh, member, Rajya Sabha, to be a member of the committee on urban development,” the bulletin reads.

According to sources Digvijay Singh resigned from the parliamentary standing committee on finance to make way for the former prime minister. Manmohan Singh, who was the country’s finance minister between 1991 and 1996, was a member of the panel from September 2014 to May 2019 before his tenure in the Upper House ended in June this year. In August, he was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan.

In the previous tenure, the panel took up various contentious issues such as demonetisation and GST for deliberations, during which Manmohan Singh played very active role. PTI JTR JTR NSD NSD

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