Jayant Sinha says will table digital competition Bill on Friday

Sinha said that was not the case, and that the Centre was bringing its own amendments to the competition law

Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, Jayant Sinha, who also heads the standing committee on finance, will table a private member’s Bill on Friday that deals with anti-competitive practices by big tech companies. Sinha told Business Standard that the idea behind introducing the Bill was to present an example of what such a law would look like.

“I had originally named it the Digital Competition Bill. However, the Lok Sabha Secretariat, in its wisdom, decided to call it Bill to amend the Competition Act, 2002. Both are completely different matters,” Sinha said.

Business Standard had earlier reported that Sinha,