The Trinamool Congress has lost the chairpersonship of two key Parliamentary panels as Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday (October 3, 2026) reconstituted various department-related Parliamentary standing committees.
Congress’ Mukul Wasnik has been retained as the head of the Parliamentary panel on education, women, children and youth, while Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Verma has been retained as the chairperson of the panel on health and family welfare. Former Union Minister Anurag Thakur has been reappointed as the head of the panel on coal, mines and steel, while BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy has been retained as the chairperson of the panel on water resources. Sudheer Gupta of the BJP has replaced party colleague C.M. Ramesh as the chairperson of the panel on railways, while Congress’ Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka has been reappointed head of the panel on rural development and Panchayati Raj.
Some opposition leaders, including Shashi Tharoor and Charanjit Singh Channi of the Congress, have also been retained as chairpersons of committees on external affairs and agriculture, respectively.
