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Effective House panels can help change people’s generally negative view of lawmakers.

All parliamentary committees, save two, now have their chairpersons. If the concerned parties respect their understanding, heads of the remaining two committees will also be elected within days. The political parties sent a positive message by electing 10 chairpersons unopposed on Monday. However, it took over nine months after the general elections and over seven months after the first sitting of the House of the Representatives to do so. Though the committees were constituted on April 28, the panels since were led by senior-most members by age. But in the absence of elected chairpersons, the thematic bodies failed to function effectively.