Mumbai, June 21 (IANS) On the eve of the Maharashtra Legislature’s Monsoon Session, the opposition coalition, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), on Sunday announced a boycott of the traditional high-tea meeting hosted by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. A three-week monsoon session will begin on Monday and will conclude on July 10.In a strongly worded letter addressed to the Chief Minister, senior MVA leaders, including Jayant Patil, Jitendra Awhad, Bhaskar Jadhav, Satej Patil, Anil Parab, Ambadas Danve…
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Mumbai, June 21 (IANS) The stage is set for a high-stakes, dramatic showdown at the Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai as the three-week monsoon session of the Maharashtra legislature begins on Monday. Scheduled to run until July 10, this session is unfolding against a volatile mix of intense political engineering and severe weather anomalies. The dual undercurrents of “Operation Tiger” — a rumoured defection plan targeting the opposition — and a prolonged, erratic monsoon threatening the agrarian sector…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Veteran Trinamool Congress legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay on Friday moved a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, challenging the order of the single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Rao of the same court, upholding the decision of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose accepting expelled Trinamool legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the new majority bloc of the party in the House as well as the official Leader of Opposition (LoP). Although, in t…
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress National General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Friday extended birthday greetings to Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, wishing him good health, happiness and success. Abhishek Banerjee took to social media ‘X’ and said, “Warm birthday wishes to @RahulGandhi Ji. Wishing you good health, happiness and continued success in every endeavour. Keep shining.”Rahul Gandhi, a senior Congress leader and Member of Pa…
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge extended birthday greetings to Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday, praising his commitment to constitutional values and his efforts to amplify the voices of the marginalised. In a post on X, Kharge said, “Warm birthday wishes to Shri @RahulGandhi. Your unbridled dedication to the ideals of the Constitution and your uncompromising fight for the unheard voices have inspired millions.”He further added th…
Bengaluru, June 11 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly R. Ashoka on Thursday launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, accusing him of shielding alleged irregularities in the government’s functioning and challenging him to make public the report of a high-level committee examining alleged violations in tender procedures.It can be recalled that, responding to the first major allegation of Rs 10,000 crore kickbacks i…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The West Bengal government has increased security for the five Trinamool Congress MLAs from Birbhum district who have supported Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, a senior official said on Sunday.Those whose security has been increased are — Birbhum Zilla Parishad President and Hansan MLA Fayezul Haque (Kajal Sheikh); Nalhati MLA Rajendra Prasad Singh; Murarai MLA Mosharraf Hossain; former minister and Bolpur MLA Chandranath Sinha; and N…
Bengaluru, June 6 (IANS) Karnataka’s Leader of Opposition (LoP) and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader R. Ashoka on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Congress government, criticising the ongoing Cabinet portfolio allocation process and alleging that it has exposed the ruling party’s “real priorities” before the people of the state. In a statement, Ashoka said the alleged delay and confusion in assigning portfolios had left key departments without Ministers at a time when urgent go…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) West Bengal’s Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) chief MLA Humayun Kabir on Thursday remarked that the BJP’s target is to “finish Trinamool Congress” in the state, while observing that, given the functioning of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led party, a split was “bound to happen”.As many as 58 out of the 80 elected legislators of Trinamool Congress, led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, submitted a resolution on Wednesday carrying the signatures of the…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) The first meeting of the new block in the Trinamool Congress Legislative Party in the West Bengal Assembly, which is now the recognised group and the official principal opposition party in the state as per records of the House, will be held on Thursday.The meeting, to be held on the Assembly premises, will be chaired by Ritabrata Banerjee, the ‘expelled’ Trinamool Congress legislator from Uluberia (Purba) constituency in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district.Ritabrata is now th…