NEW DELHI: The standoff between the government and opposition parties over the distribution of chairmanship of parliamentary standing committees came to a head on Wednesday with Speaker Om Birla objecting to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remarks alleging “subversion of convention” and asking him whether he was “challenging” the Speaker, whose mandate it is to decide who helms the committees.
In a zero hour intervention, Chowdhury accused the government of “subverting” parliamentary conventions by taking away the chairmanship of committees from opposition parties.
