New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta, on Monday, condemned the boycott of House proceedings by the Opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members on the first day of the budget session. “I strongly condemn the protest being carried out outside the House by the members of the Opposition and the Leader of the Opposition Atishi,” the Assembly Speaker said in a statement.”Boycotting the House and failing to participate in its proceedings is completely against the dignity of the…
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New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs on Monday staged a protest outside the Delhi Assembly, carrying out what they described as a “funeral procession of democracy” to protest the suspension of party legislators and accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of suppressing the voice of the opposition.Leader of Opposition Atishi alleged that the BJP government was trying to stifle democratic debate in the Assembly by suspending opposition members and preventing them from ra…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva stated on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a historic record by completing a tenure of 8,931 days as a Head of Administration dedicated to the service of the nation.The Delhi BJP chief said that having been elected four times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Gujarat and three times as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi has established a unique benchmark of popu…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Saturday condemned Aam Aadmi Party’s city convenor Saurabh Bharadwaj for making a “baseless” allegation against the Delhi government over management of a Rs 1,000 crore loan.Sachdeva said that for state governments, taking loans either from the Central government, the Reserve Bank of India, or from financial institutions or the open market with the RBI’s permission for long-term or short-term needs is a normal administrat…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, on Thursday, condemned the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) demand to livestream proceedings of the Privileges Committee meeting of the Delhi Assembly which is dealing with the ‘Faansi Ghar’ matter. Sachdeva’s remarks come on the eve of the likely appearance of the AAP Convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal before the Committee on Friday for presenting his explanation for declaring a shaft in the Assembly premises as a ‘Fa…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Former Delhi Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition (LoP) Atishi, on Thursday, asked Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V.K. Saxena to apologise for the alleged “political conspiracies” by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to implicate Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. She said the L-G should take moral responsibility for the failed bid to implicate Kejriwal in the case which has been dismissed by a Special CBI court.Ci…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Thursday cautioned Leader of Opposition (LoP) Atishi not to insult or discredit the Assembly Committees for “narrow political gains”.The Speaker’s advisory followed LoP Atishi’s critical public comments on the ongoing ‘Faansi Ghar’ enquiry by the Committee of Privileges.In a formal letter issued on Thursday, the Speaker criticised the LoP in the Delhi Assembly for making unsubstantiated statements during a Press brief…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta has received an email threat from purported “Khalistan” supporters warning of a possible bomb blast causing harm to him and the Vidhan Sabha Secretariat, an official said on Monday. Soon after the threat landed on Gupta’s computer in the morning, Secretary to the Speaker, Vineet Kumar, wrote to the Delhi Police Commissioner and informed him about the threat.The threatening e-mail was purportedly sent by “Khalistan Na…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) In Delhi’s Leader of Opposition Atishi’s video row, the Delhi Assembly Secretariat on Saturday issued summons to Punjab Police chief, Jalandhar Police commissioner and a senior Punjab Home Department official to appear before it on February 27.The identical letter issued to Alok Shekhar, Additional Chief Secretary, Home-II, Punjab government, Punjab Police chief Gaurav Yadav and Jalandhar Police Commissioner Dhanpreet Kaur, the Delhi Assembly Secretariat asked them t…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Delhi Assembly Secretariat was on Friday told by the Punjab Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Alok Shekhar and the state police Chief Gaurav Yadav that their replies related to the FIR registered regarding the video clip of alleged remarks of city’s Leader of Opposition Atishi are being vetted by their state government. In the interim, draft copies of their replies, sent for vetting to the Punjab Home department, were forwarded to Delhi Assembly Secretariat, an offic…