Committee rosters are power diagrams if you read them right. The 31 names notified this week split 21-10 across the Houses, chaired by the treasury — but the diagram's live wires are elsewhere.
The DMK sent its sharpest constitutional lawyer: the southern case will be argued as doctrine, not grievance. The Congress sent a former law minister flanked by two northern MPs — a hedge wearing a delegation, as our bloc-split analysis predicted.
The allies inside the treasury column matter as much: the JD(U) nominee carries the women's-reservation schedule brief; the TDP's carries the review clause its state extracted. Coalition mathematics drafted this bill — it staffs the committee too.
What the room decides: whether the 850-seat floor clause settles the southern question or a weighted formula must be invented; whether the reservation schedule is court-enforceable; whether the Rajya Sabha moves in tandem.
Evidence sessions open July 28, summaries published — a transparency concession that keeps this on front pages all winter. Track every sitting on our politics desk.
