Kharge re-appointed PAC Chairman

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Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has been re-appointed chairman of the 22-member Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament for its fresh term starting on Tuesday. A majority of the members of this parliamentary panel, which is headed by an Opposition leader, are from the ruling NDA. Kharge, an MP from Gulbarga (Karnataka), is the leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha. It is the oldest parliamentary committee that examines the accounts showing the appropriation of sums granted by Parliament for expenditure of Government of India and such other accounts of autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies.