<p align="JUSTIFY">Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who had earlier expressed reluctance to join any Parliamentary panel, will now be a member of Standing Committee on Finance with party colleague Digvijay Singh making way for him.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">Singh recently quit the 31-member panel headed by BJP MP following which Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu cleared Singh's nomination on November 6.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">Digvijay Singh has now been moved to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">The 31-member panel headed by BJP MP and former Union Minister Jayant Sinha. In the last five years, Congress was heading the panel.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">The 87-year-old top Congress leader, who is credited with steering economic reforms in the country in 1991 when he was Finance Minister, was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance from 2014 to 2019.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">He was out of the panel in mid-2019 after his term ended. He was re-elected from Rajasthan and when the Parliamentary panels were reconstituted in September, Singh appeared not keen to be part of committees.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">Sources said Digvijay Singh earlier resigned from the panel saying he has been on it for a long time probably making way for the former Prime Minister.</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY">Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who had earlier expressed reluctance to join any Parliamentary panel, will now be a member of Standing Committee on Finance with party colleague Digvijay Singh making way for him.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">Singh recently quit the 31-member panel headed by BJP MP following which Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu cleared Singh's nomination on November 6.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">Digvijay Singh has now been moved to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Urban Development.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">The 31-member panel headed by BJP MP and former Union Minister Jayant Sinha. In the last five years, Congress was heading the panel.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">The 87-year-old top Congress leader, who is credited with steering economic reforms in the country in 1991 when he was Finance Minister, was a member of the Standing Committee on Finance from 2014 to 2019.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">He was out of the panel in mid-2019 after his term ended. He was re-elected from Rajasthan and when the Parliamentary panels were reconstituted in September, Singh appeared not keen to be part of committees.</p>.<p align="JUSTIFY">Sources said Digvijay Singh earlier resigned from the panel saying he has been on it for a long time probably making way for the former Prime Minister.</p>
