New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Congress MP Manish Tewari on Monday submitted an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha, seeking a discussion on the need for a new anti-defection law to address what he described as mass political defections driven by opportunism while safeguarding genuine ideological dissent. In a notice submitted to the Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, Tewari urged the House to suspend its scheduled business to deliberate on the…
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Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected a plea from the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, seeking an overall protection from coercive police action, including arrest in all the eight FIRs registered against him in various cases at different police stations in West Bengal.The matter came up for hearing at the single-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. At the end of the hearing Justice Bhattacharyya made a verbal …
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Lok Sabha Speaker’s office and six rebel Shiv Sena(UBT) MPs on a plea filed by Shiv Sena(UBT) leader Arvind Sawant challenging the Speaker’s decision recognising their merger with the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena under the anti-defection law. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe sought responses from the respondents and posted the matter for further hearing after two weeks.The notices were issued to the L…
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has moved the Supreme Court by filing a writ petition as a party-in-person challenging the interpretation of the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution, contending that the existing legal position on political mergers is diluting the anti-defection law. The petition, filed against the Union of India, was assigned Diary No. 42846/2026 and filed on July 20, according to details available on the apex court’s official website.Appearing before a Bench…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Delhi BJP Media Head and Spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said on Sunday that leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Communist parties appear rattled after Sonam Wangchuk was shifted from Jantar Mantar to Safdarjung Hospital. He said Wangchuk was shifted to the hospital on the directions of the Delhi High Court, but the AAP and Communist parties are viewing it as a development that has denied them an opportunity to provoke and mislead the youth.The Delhi BJP sp…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Harsh Malhotra said on Sunday that the appearance of senior and highly paid lawyers, including MPs Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankha, before the Delhi High Court to seek interim relief in the Sonam Wangchuk matter makes it evident that he is not an ordinary activist but a political pawn of the entire Opposition.The Delhi BJP President said that the Delhi Police’s action to shift Wangchuk from Jantar Mantar to a hospital was in accordance with the High Cou…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Opposition leaders on Saturday hit out at Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav over his alleged controversial remarks regarding the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), accusing him of being “obsessed with power”.CM Yadav sparked a row by saying: “Under the proposed Uniform Civil Code, only a person who has one marriage will have the legal right to reside in Madhya Pradesh.””Why should there be separate laws for Hindus and Muslims? There should be one law for everyone. If Ram…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the Jharkhand High Court’s order suspending the sentence of RJD chief and former Bihar Chief Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, in the Deoghar fodder scam case.Dismissing the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea seeking cancellation of his bail, a Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and P.B. Varale observed that seven years had elapsed since the High Court suspended his sentence and declined to interfere with the orde…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday clarified that the passport has never been proof of citizenship, after a controversy erupted on the issue a day before.It said this position has been there since the Passport Act came into force. It is not that it was decided in the last 12 years.The ministry said a passport is mainly a travel document, and its legal status has remained unchanged for many years.The issue gained attention after an MEA official said at a Passpo…
Ghaziabad, June 8 (IANS) Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Monday launched a sharp attack on Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, alleging that the Congress leadership never intended to make Sachin Pilot the Chief Minister of Rajasthan and was responsible for the prolonged political conflict within the party in the state. His remarks came amid renewed discussion over the long-running power struggle between senior Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot…