New Delhi: Aparajita Sarangi, BJP MP from Bhubaneshwar, will head the 31-member joint parliamentary committee (JPC) set up to examine the three key laws that provide for the removal of prime minister, chief ministers and Union and state ministers on arrest or detention for serious criminal offences that draw punishment of five years in jail or more.

The Lok Sabha secretariat Wednesday notified the constitution of the committee, where a majority of the 31 MPs are from the NDA. Most opposition parties had decided to boycott the parliamentary panel.

While Congress, the principal opposition party and other key opposition parties including Trinamool Congress have refused to be a part of the committee, some of the non-INDIA bloc members including the Biju Janata Dal and Bharat Rashtra Samithi

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