Committee on External Affairs

Committee on External Affairs
Department Related Standing Committee
17th Lok Sabha
Country	India
Leadership
Chaiperson	P. P. Chaudhary
Chairperson party	BJP
Appointer	Lok sabha Speaker
Structure
Seats	31; Lok Sabha : 21 ; Rajya Sabha : 10

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs is a department related standing committee (DRSC) of selected members of parliament, constituted by the Parliament of India, for the purpose of legislative oversight of the foreign policy, and decision making of the Ministry of External Affairs. It is one of the 24 DRSCs that have been mandated with the task of ministry specific oversight.

As of 2022, The committee currently is headed by MP P. P. Chaudhary.[1]

Current Composition

Each of the committees have 31 members – 21 from Lok Sabha and 10 from Rajya Sabha.[1] These members are to be nominated by the Speaker of Lok Sabha or the Chairman of Rajya Sabha respectively. The term of office of these committees does not exceed one year. These committees are serviced either by Lok Sabha secretariat or the Rajya Sabha secretariat, depending on who has appointed the chairman of that committee.

Following are the members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.[2]

Lok Sabha members

21 Members from 16th Lok Sabha; tenure – September 2021-2022
Sr. No.	Name	Constituency, state	Party
1	P. P. Chaudhary^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Pali, Rajasthan	BJP
2	Harsimrat Kaur Badal
3	Abhishek Banerjee
4	Kalyan Banerjee
5	Harsh Vardhan		BJP
6	Dileshwar Kamait
7	Suresh Kumar Kashyap
8	Preneet Kaur
9	Goddeti Madhavi
10	Manne Srinivas Reddy	Mahabubnagar, Telangana	TRS
11	P. C. Mohan
12	Queen Oja
13	Ritesh Pandey
14	K. C. Patel
15	N.K. Premachandran
16	Navneet Ravi Rana
17	Soyam Babu Rao
18	Rebati Tripura
19	Poonam (Mahajan) Vajendla Rao		BJP
20	Vacant
21	Vacant

Rajya Sabha members

10 Members from the Rajya Sabha: tenure – September 2021-2022
Sr. No.	Name	State Legislature	Party	Party status
1	K. J. Alphons	Rajasthan	BJP	Government
2	Jaya Bachchan	Uttar Pradesh	SP	Opposition
3	Misha Bharti	Bihar	RJD	Opposition
4	Brijlal	Uttar Pradesh	BJP	Government
5	P. Chidambaram	Maharashtra	INC	Opposition
6	Swapan Dasgupta	West Bengal	BJP	Government
7	Prakash Javadekar[1]	Maharashtra	BJP	Government
8	Sanjay Raut[1]	Maharashtra	SS	Opposition
9	Kapil Sibal	Uttar Pradesh	INC	Opposition
10	K. Somaprasad	Kerala	CPIM	Opposition

Chairpersons

Sr. No.	Name	Term of office	Terms	Political party (Alliance)
-	P. P. Chaudhary[1]	2021–Present	1	BJP

References

Chairperson of the committee for the current year.

"Parliament Panels Reconstituted, Congress Leaders Retained As Chairmen". NDTV.com. 10 October 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
"Committee on External Affairs : Loksabha". loksabhaph.nic.in. Retrieved 20 January 2022.

External link

Committee on External Affairs on Lok Sabha Website

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[3] Chairperson of the committee for the current year.

[Reconstituted_October_2021-1] "Parliament Panels Reconstituted, Congress Leaders Retained As Chairmen". NDTV.com. 10 October 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.

[Committee_on_External_Affairs-2] "Committee on External Affairs : Loksabha". loksabhaph.nic.in. Retrieved 20 January 2022.