The Bhartiya Janata Party on Tuesday decided to set up shadow standing committees on political, economic, and strategic and foreign policies to help the party's MPs in effective participation in the parliamentary standing committees that will be scrutinising ministry-wise the Union Budget during three weeks of recess from Wednesday.

The party MPs were told that the BJP Parliamentary Party office has hired experts from Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to prepare briefs for the MPs on the subjects coming up in the standing committee meetings.

BJP Parliamentary Party chairman Lal Krishna Advani expressed satisfaction over the party MPs' performance in the first half of the budget session in cornering the government. Chairing a meeting of the party on the concluding day of the first half of the session, he asked the MPs to participate actively in the standing committees.

He pointed out that it is not possible for Parliament to scrutinise budget demands of each department and ministry in depth for want of time and hence the route of the standing committees has been taken where the MPs get enough time to thoroughly examine each and every demand.