Cabinet Committee

Cabinet Committee

Subject: Polity

Context: Further, as part of the reshuffle, Union ministers Smriti Irani, Bhupender Yadav and Sarbananda Sonowal have been included in the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Concept:

Cabinet Committees are extra-constitutional in emergence, which means, they are not mentioned in the Indian Constitution. Prime Minister is part of six panels except for the Committee on Accommodation and Committee on Parliamentary Affairs.