A significant meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs convened on Friday to discuss global terrorism challenges had to be cancelled on Friday for want of quorum. Photo for representation only
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 3
A significant meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs convened on Friday to discuss global terrorism challenges had to be cancelled on Friday for want of quorum.
Only four MPs, including BJP’s PP Chaudhary, the panel chairman, RSP’s NK Premchandran and Rajya Sabha MP KJ Alphons, turned up. The panel’s total strength is 28.
Senior officials from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) were in attendance to brief the committee members on the agenda — “Countering Global Terrorism at Regional and International Level”.
Among others on the committee are Congress’ P Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal and Preneet Kaur, SAD's Harsimrat Badal, TMC's Abhishek Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee, SP's Jaya Bachchan and former CJI Ranjan Gogoi.
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