Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who recently switched loyalty to the BJP from AAP, has been appointed as the new chairman of the Committee on Petitions of the Upper House.
Newly elected Rajya Sabha MP from TMC Menaka Guruswamy too has been appointed as a member of the Joint Committee on the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026.
After reconstituting the Committee on Petitions, Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan nominated 10 members of the house to the panel.
“Raghav Chadha has been appointed chairman of the committee," a Rajya Sabha notification said. The panel has been reconstituted by the Rajya Sabha chairman with effect from May 20, it said.
The members of the panel, besides Chadha, are: Harsh Mahajan, Gulam Ali, Shambhu Sharan Patel, Mayankkumar Nayak, Masthan Rao Yadav Beedha, Jebi Mather Hisham, Subhasish Khuntia, Rwngwra Narzary and Sandosh Kumar P.
In another notification, the Rajya Sabha secretariat said, “The Chairman, Rajya Sabha has, on May 20, 2026, nominated Dr Menaka Guruswamy, Member, Rajya Sabha, to be a member of the Joint Committee on the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026."
In a separate Lok Sabha notification, the Speaker Om Birla nominated Arvind Ganpat Sawant to the Joint Committee on the Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill with effect from May 21.
