Bankruptcy code bill referred to joint panel

New Delhi, Dec 23: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday decided to refer the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2015 to a joint committee of parliament.

Moving the motion in the house, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the committee will have 20 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha.

The 20 members from the Lok Sabha are P.P. Chaudhary, Gopal Shetty, Subhash Chandra Baheria, Nishikant Dubey, Shivkumar Chanabasappa Udasi, Anil Gulabrao Shirole, Abhishek Singh, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Sanjay Jaiswal and Jagdambika Pal (all BJP) Chandrakant Bhaurao Khaire (Shiv Sena), Jayadev Galla (Telugu Desam Party), Chirag Paswan (Lok Janshakti Party), K.C. Venugopal, Sushmita Dev (Congress), P. Venugopal (AIADMK), Kalyan Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Bhartruhari Mahtab (Biju Janata Dal), B. Vinod Kumar (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) and Jitendra Chaudhury (Communist Party of India (Marxist).

IANS