New Delhi: Union Minister Smriti Irani was dropped from the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) and not been included in the five other cabinet committees reconstituted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.
Irani was dropped as a special invitee and her successor in the HRD Ministry Prakash Javadekar elevated as a member. Najma Heptulla, the Minority Affairs Minister who had resigned from the Union Cabinet earlier this week, is no more a member of the panel.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who was lately given Independent charge of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, will be a special invitee as well as Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs SS Ahluwalia and Minister of State for Law PP Chaudhary.
In the cabinet reshuffle announced on July 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved out Irani from the high-profile HRD Ministry to Textiles.
Javadekar was earlier a special invitee to the committee.
In the reconstituted panel, new Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad replaced his predecessor DV Sadananda Gowda.
Rajiv Pratap Rudy, who has been divested of his Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs portfolio, too has been dropped as a special invitee, being replaced by Ahluwalia.
The committee, headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, has 11 members, including three special invitees.
Other members are Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu, Ram Vilas Paswan and Ananth Kumar, who is also the new Parliamentary Affairs minister replacing Naidu.
With PTI Inputs.
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