1st meeting of Joint Parliamentary Committee on ‘One Nation One Election’ is to take place on Jan 8

The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on two bills related to the One Nation One Election will be held on the 8th of next month. The 39-member committee has 27 members from the Lok Sabha and 12 members from the Rajya Sabha. The committee will submit its report to the House by the first day of the last week of the next Parliament session.

The panel consists of BJP leaders PP Chaudhary, Anurag Singh Thakur, and Parshottambhai Rupala; Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Manish Tewari; TMC’s Kalyan



Bannerjee; and NCP (SP)’s Supriya Sule, among others from Lok Sabha, as members. From Rajya Sabha, Ghanshyam Tiwari, Bhubaneswar Kalita, and K. Laxman of BJP; Randeep Singh Surjewala and Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik of Congress; Sanjay Kumar Jha of JDU; and V. Vijayasai Reddy of YSR Congress, among others, are the members of the Parliamentary Committee. The bills are officially named as the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024.