NEW DELHI (PTI): A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the multi-million securities scam was formed August 6 with the Lower House of Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) unanimously adopting a motion for appointment of a 30-member committee comprising members of both houses of Parliament. The motion, containing five point terms of reference for the committee, was adopted after parliamentary affairs minister Ghulam Nabi Azad assured the house of all government assistance and cooperation to the committee to bring out truth in the matter, Of the 20 members from Lok Sabha nominated to the committee, the Congress (I) party has 10 and its allies All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagam (AIADMK) and Telugu Desam (V) have one each.
The remaining eight are from the opposition parties — Bharatiya Janata Party (Four), Janata Dal (Two), Communist party of India (Marxist) (One), Congress-S (One).
This is the second JPC to go into a scandal, the first being the one that went into the Bofors issue,
The motion, which has recommended to the Upper House for nomination of 10 of its members to the committee, authorizes the speaker to nominate one of the members as the committee chairman.
The committee will submit its report to Lok Sabha by the end of the next session of parliament.
Article extracted from this publication >> Aug 21, 1992
