Patna, Feb 17 (IANS) The 11th day of the Bihar Assembly’s Budget Session began amid loud protests and repeated disruptions, as a controversy over remarks made on Late Ram Vilas Paswan escalated into a major political flashpoint.As soon as the House proceedings started on Tuesday, heated exchanges broke out between the opposition and the ruling party.The uproar stemmed from an earlier speech by a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA, who had allegedly referred to Ram Vilas Paswan as “poor”.Taking…
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Chandigarh, Feb 13 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab, on Friday, held statewide protests against the Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa over his casteist and derogatory remarks targeting Minister Harbhajan Singh ETO. Senior AAP leaders, Ministers, MLAs, activists and residents joined demonstrations in large numbers, raising slogans and demanding a public apology from Bajwa and the Congress leadership.AAP leader Baltej Pannu said, “Partap Singh Bajwa’s shameful and casteist remarks aga…
Chandigarh, Feb 13 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab on Friday held statewide “band-baja” protests against Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa over his casteist and derogatory remarks targeting Cabinet Minister Harbhajan Singh ETO. Senior leaders, ministers, MLAs, activists, and residents joined demonstrations in large numbers, raising slogans and demanding a public apology from Bajwa and the Congress leadership.AAP leader Baltej Pannu said, “Partap Singh Bajwa’s shame…
Meerut, Jan 10 (IANS) There is tension in Meerut over the killing of a mother who tried to save her grown up daughter from being abducted by goons. Even as security was tightened on Saturday, political parties have lambasted the Uttar Pradesh government over this horrific crime against women. The 50-year-old Dalit woman was struck on the head by the goons with a sharp object when she tried to protect her 20-year-old daughter from being abducted in Kapsad village of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, police…
Bengaluru, Jan 7 (IANS) The Karnataka BJP has demanded the immediate suspension of officials who allegedly stripped and assaulted a BJP woman worker in Hubballi. A video purportedly related to the incident has gone viral on social media, triggering widespread outrage and controversy on Wednesday morning.Speaking to media persons at the BJP state headquarters “Jagannath Bhavan” in Bengaluru, State BJP President and MLA B.Y. Vijayendra said a shocking incident had taken place in Hubballi, wher…
Chandigarh, Dec 30 (IANS) Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Union government, accusing it of systematically dismantling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme and stripping the poor of their right to a livelihood. Speaking in the Vidhan Sabha in support of a resolution against the changes and the renaming of the MGNREGA scheme to ‘Viksit Bharat — G GRAM G’, Cheema labelled the step as an “assault…