New Delhi:
The Rajya Sabha today named 10 members, including Digvijaya Singh of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress' Derek O'Brien, to the Joint Committee that will look into the controversial Land Acquisition Bill.
The 30-member Joint Committee of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha would submit its report on the first day of the Monsoon Session on the bill which has already been passed by the Lower House.
The other Rajya Sabha members in the committee are: Ram Narain Dudi (BJP), Jairam Ramesh (Congress), PL Punia (Congress), Ram Gopal Yadav (Samajwadi Party), Sharad Yadav (Janata Dal-United), Sharad Pawar (Nationalist Congress Party) and Rajpal Singh Saini (Bahujan Samaj Party).
The members of the Lok Sabha who are in the joint panel include KV Thomas, Rajiv Satav (both Congress), Anand Rao Adsul (Shiv Sena), Kalyan Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), B Mahtab (Biju Janata Dal), Mohammad Salim (Communist Party of India-Marxist), Chirag Paswan (LJP) and SS Ahluwalia, Udit Raj, Anurag Thakur and Ganesh Singh (all BJP).
Yesterday, the government, which had promulgated the ordinance twice on the bill since December last after it faced similar resistance earlier, had agreed to refer it to the committee after National Democratic Alliance or NDA allies Shiv Sena and Akali Dal joined the Opposition in Lok Sabha to oppose the measure.