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

The reconstituted Public Accounts Committee (PAC) convened connected Friday (May 22, 2026), during which BJP members objected to PAC chairperson K. C. Venugopal taking up definite subjects for introspection by the committee suo motu.

The subjects see argumentation reforms successful the banking, insurance, and vigor sectors.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey is said to person objected to the PAC taking up these subjects connected its own. However, Mr. Venugopal is said to person cited precedence, erstwhile BJP person Murli Manohar Joshi headed the parliamentary sheet and took up issues suo motu. 

“The president made it wide that deciding which subjects to instrumentality up is the committee’s prerogative and cited precedent successful support,” an Opposition member, who declined to beryllium named, told The Hindu.

Despite the quality implicit the suo motu subjects, sources claimed the gathering was precise cordial and members crossed enactment lines congratulated Mr. Venugopal for the mode helium conducted the PAC meetings. 

Heavy backlog

The sheet besides expressed interest implicit pending Action Taken Notes (ATNs) and a dense backlog successful the Audit Para Monitoring System, a web-based level acceptable up by the Comptroller and Auditor-General (C&AG) to way and show follow-up enactment by respective Ministries connected audit observations regarding irregularities, procedural violations, fiscal lapses, oregon inefficient usage of nationalist funds.

“Chaired the archetypal gathering of the Public Accounts Committee (2026-27). The erstwhile PAC (2025-26) successfully presented 26 reports to Parliament. The dense backlog successful the Audit Para Monitoring System is simply a origin for superior concern, with 1500+ ATNs being pending earlier assorted Ministries/Departments. In airy of the analyzable quality of nationalist expenditure successful our country, a much cooperative and quicker effect to audits from the C&AG is the request of the hour,” Mr. Venugopal said successful a station connected X.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India K. Sanjay Murthy was besides contiguous astatine the archetypal gathering of the reconstituted PAC for 2026-27.

The PAC is the parliamentary committee, which examines reports by Comptroller and Auditor-General and past submits its ain report.