Reconstituted PAC meets; BJP objects to panel taking up issues suo motu

Key points

• The reconstituted Public Accounts Committee (PAC) convened on Friday (May 22, 2026), during which BJP members objected to PAC chairperson K.
• Venugopal taking up certain subjects for examination by the committee suo motu.
• The subjects include policy reforms in the banking, insurance, and energy sectors.
• BJP MP Nishikant Dubey is said to have objected to the PAC taking up these subjects on its own.
• However, Mr. Venugopal is said to have cited precedence, when BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi headed the parliamentary panel and took up issues suo motu.