The Union government reconstituted various important Cabinet committees here on Wednesday. Ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Democratic Alliance partners, Janata Dal (U), Telugu Desam Party, Janata Dal (S), Shiv Sena and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), have found place in the committees. Most of the panels are headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to a government release on Wednesday, the Cabinet Committee on Appointments, which overseas various high-level appointments, has two members — the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The Cabinet Committee on Accommodation is headed by Mr. Shah and senior BJP Ministers Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Manohar Lal Khattar and Piyush Goyal are members. Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh is a special invitee to the panel.
The crucial Cabinet Committee on Security is headed by the Prime Minister and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Mr. Shah, Ms. Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar are its members.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, the panel that takes decisions on allocations and disbursements, is also headed by the Prime Minister. Mr. Singh, Mr. Shah, Ms. Sitharaman, Mr. Jaishankar, Mr. Gadkari, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Heavy Industries and Steel Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy are its members.
The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs is headed by Mr. Singh. Mr. Shah, Union Health Minister and BJP president JP Nadda, Ms. Sitharaman, Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Ministers K. Rammohan Naidu, Kiren Rijiju, Virendra Kumar, Jual Oram, and C.R. Patil are its members.
The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs, also headed by Mr. Modi, has Rajnath Singh, Mr. Shah, Mr. Gadkari, Ms. Sitharaman, Mr. Goyal, Mr. Nadda, Mr. Naidu, Ministers Jitan Ram Manjhi, Sarbananda Sonowal, Bhupender Yadav, Annpurna Devi,Mr. Rijiju and G. Kishan Reddy as its members.
The Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth has Mr. Modi, Mr. Singh, Mr. Shah, Mr. Gadkari, Ms. Sitharaman, Mr. Goyal, Ministers Pralhad Joshi, Giriraj Singh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Hardeep Singh Puri, andChirag Paswan as members. Special invitees in this panel are Minister of State for Statistics Rao Inderjit Singh and Minister of Aayush Prataprao Jadhav.
The Cabinet Committee on Skill, Employment and Livelihood comprises the Prime Minister, Mr. Singh, Mr. Shah, Mr. Gadkari, Ms. Sitharaman, Mr. Vaishnaw, Mr. Pradhan, Mr. Yadav, Mr. Puri, Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Mansukh Mandaviya.