30th April, 2002
Ministry of Home Affairs  


STANDING COMMITTEE OF INTER-STATE COUNCIL RECONSTITUTED


The Standing Committee of the Inter-State Council has been reconstituted. The Prime Minister has nominated Shri A.K. Antony, Chief Minister of Kerala as a Member of the Standing Committee in place of Shri Prakash Singh Badal, former Chief Minister of Punjab. The composition of the Standing Committee of the Inter-State Council is now as follows:

Chairman

Shri L.K. Advani

Home Minister

Members

 

(i)

Shri Arun Jaitley

Minister of Law, Justice & Company Affairs

(ii)

Shri Yashwant Sinha

Minister of Finance

(iii)

Shri Murasoli Maran

Minister of Commerce & Industry

(iv)

Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu

Minister of Power

(v)

Shri Jaswant singh

Minister of External Affairs

(vi)

Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Chief Minister, West Bengal

(vii)

Shri N. Chandrababu Naidu

Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh

(viii)

Shri Naveen patnaik

Chief Minister, Orissa

(ix)

Shri Digvijay Singh

Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh

(x)

Dr. Farooq Abdullah

Chief Minister, Jammu & Kashmir

(xi)

Shri S.M. Krsihna

Chief Minister, Karnataka

(xii)

Shri Tarun Gogoi

Chief Minister, Assam

(xiii)

Shri A.K. Antony

Chief Minister, Kerala.