Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Parliamentary Committee Reshuffle Set to Cost TMC Two Chairposts
Some leaders of parliamentary committees in India are expected to change.
Six of the 24 committees may get new chairpersons.
The Trinamool Congress, or TMC, is expected to lose two chairperson posts.
This follows a group of its MPs switching camps after the West Bengal elections.
Sudhanshu Trivedi of the BJP is likely to take over the Commerce committee from Dola Sen.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is likely to lead the Chemicals committee, which Kriti Azad previously chaired.
Ghosh Dastidar has led a group that broke away from the TMC.
She has said that group merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India.
Six of Parliament’s 24 committees are expected to get new chairpersons.
The Trinamool Congress is set to lose two committee chairperson posts after some of its MPs switched camps following the West Bengal elections.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi is likely to replace TMC MP Dola Sen as chairperson of the Commerce committee.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is likely to head the Chemicals committee, previously chaired by TMC MP Kriti Azad.
Ghosh Dastidar has led a TMC rebel faction and said it merged with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India.
- Who
- Parliamentary committee chairpersons, including Dola Sen, Sudhanshu Trivedi, Kriti Azad and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.
- What
- Six of 24 committees are expected to see chairperson changes, with the TMC set to lose two posts.
- When
- The reshuffle is expected; no date is specified.
- Where
- India’s Parliament.
- Why
- A group of TMC MPs switched camps after the West Bengal elections.
- Committees facing changes
- Six out of 24
- TMC chairperson posts expected to be lost
- Two
- Commerce committee's likely new chairperson
- Sudhanshu Trivedi
- Commerce committee's current chairperson
- Dola Sen
- Chemicals committee's likely new chairperson
- Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
- Chemicals committee's previous chairperson
- Kriti Azad
- Party named in merger claim
- Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI)