Jairam Ramesh resigns as Chairman of Standing Committee on environment, climate change

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Congress Leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday resigned from the post of Chairman for Parliamentary Committee for Science and Technology, environment, forests and climate change...

In a twitter post Ramesh said that three very important Bills were deliberately not referred to the Standing Committee...

"3 very important Bills bulldozed through Parliament these past few days were deliberately not referred to the Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change..

He expressed his disappointment further and said that the Modi government has bypassed the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill with the Criminal Procedure(Identification) Act, 2022...

The Modi government has instead bypassed it with the Criminal Procedure(Identification) Act, 2022," he said.. Calling it the age of 'self-styled Sarvagyaani and Vishwaguru', the Congress MP resigned..

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