Over the years, various parliamentary committees have been the playground of businessmen. Kalpataru Das, an MP from Orissa whose family has vast business interests in mines, sat on the select committee that scrutinized the new mining bill in 2015; Vijay Darda, whose family owned the Marathi newspaper Lokmat, the Hindi newspaper Lokmat Samachar and the English newspaper Lokmat Times, was a member of a committee that dealt with media regulations through the first decade of the new millenium; Chandrapal Singh Yadav from Uttar Pradesh sat on the standing committee on chemicals and fertilizers when
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