India, March 4 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday constituted the House's Privileges Committee for the 18th Lok Sabha, appointing BJP leader and former Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as its chairman.

This is the first time members have been appointed to the panel in the 18th Lok Sabha.

The 15-member committee has eight MPs from the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and seven from the Opposition. The panel deals with complaints of breach of privilege by lawmakers against officials as well as against fellow MPs. The committee comes into effect from Tuesday.

Apart from Prasad, the BJP members on the panel are Brijmohan Agrawal, Jagadish Shettar, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Jagdambika Pal and Triv...