TMC Writes to RS Chairman, LS Speaker Requesting Virtual Parl Panel Meetings Amid Covid-19

The Trinamool Congress has written to Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, urging them to let parliamentary committee conferences be held just about to allow them to handle problems with public curiosity amidst the continuing coronavirus pandemic. This is the TMC’s third letter on the difficulty, the social gathering mentioned, including that the primary letter was written in July, 2020 and the second letter in August, 2020. “India has reported more than 3 lakh new COVID-19 cases per day for the past two weeks. In light of the prevailing circumstances, I urge your good offices to reconsider our request for conducting virtual meetings of parliamentary committees, including departmentally related standing committees, consultative committees and select committees,” the letter from RS MP and the social gathering’s nationwide spokesperson Derek O’Brien mentioned. He additionally mentioned that the social gathering had obtained a letter from the chairman’s workplace dated August 27, which said that it was “decided in a meeting that the matter regarding holding of virtual meetings of the Parliamentary Committees vis-vis existing provisions on confidentiality of the proceedings of the Committees, may be referred to the Committees on Rules in both the Houses”.