Patna, March 5 (IANS) Amid intense political developments in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections.All five candidates, including Nitin Nabin, Shivesh Kumar Ram, and Upendra Kushwaha of the ruling alliance, also submitted their nominations on the same day.Several senior NDA leaders were present during the filing process, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who arrived in Patna from New Delhi for the occasion.While the nomina…
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Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Monday strongly criticised the Mahayuti government, likening their political conduct to the hubris of the antagonist Duryodhana from the Mahabharata. The Thackeray camp, in an editorial titled “Duryodhana’s Ego: No Need for a Leader of the Opposition!” in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, claimed that there has been a democratic erosion caused by individual ego. It paints a picture of a ruling establishment that views the…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention in directing the West Bengal Police to submit the case diary of last month’s violence at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the central agency officials probing the matter.In its petition, the NIA counsel had argued that the state police was refusing to hand over the case diary in the matter despite the Supreme Court’s Division Bench of Chief …
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi lost his cool at a section of media persons on Thursday, as they questioned him about a possible privilege motion against him by the ruling party in the ongoing Budget session. Rahul, visibly agitated at the question, snapped at the scribes, asking, “Have you been given this code word for today”? In the same breadth, he asked them to “stay objective” in their work and uphold the sanctity of their profession. On Wednesday, t…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha witnessed a stormy start to the session on Thursday, with government and Opposition getting into verbal confrontation over denial of permission to Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi to speak in the Lok Sabha and also over attempts to stall Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address.Lok Sabha was adjourned moments after reconvening on Thursday, following which the Upper House witnessed noisy scenes and…
Jaipur, Feb 4 (IANS) A heated exchange erupted in the Rajasthan Assembly on Wednesday during Question Hour over a query related to homeless families in Bharatpur, leading to sharp arguments between ministers and the opposition. The controversy began after Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) MLA Subhash Garg asked about the number of homeless families in Bharatpur and the families eligible under the Prime Minister’s Housing Scheme (PM Awas Yojana).Responding to the question, Urban Development and Housing (…
Bengaluru, Feb 4 (IANS) The Karnataka Assembly proceedings continued on Wednesday amid protests by members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal(Secular). Soon after the session commenced, opposition members moved into the well of the House and began demanding the resignation of Excise Minister R.B. Thimmapur. They raised slogans and stated that they would allow the proceedings to continue only after the Minister tendered his resignation.Speaker U.T. Khader requested the members of …
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) The Lok Sabha suspended eight opposition MPs on Tuesday for “disrupting” the House proceedings and throwing papers towards the Chair for the remainder of the Budget Session.The opposition MPs — Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Manickam Tagore, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Hibi Eden, C. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Prashant Yadaorao Padole, S. Venkatesh, and Dean Kuriakose — are from the Congress party.”The opposition party has every right to raise its issues in Parliament. There should be a …
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, gave clear instructions to both West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police to ensure absolute security for public political programmes of elected representatives from the opposition parties.The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari approached the Calcutta High Court in October last year seeking the court’s intervention for a permanent solution to ensure that the public political programm…
Hyderabad, Feb 1 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao reached his residence in Hyderabad on Sunday ahead of his examination by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the telephone-tapping case.KCR, as the BRS chief is popularly known, will be questioned by SIT officials at 3 p.m. on Sunday at his residence in Nandi Nagar in Banjara Hills.Police have tightened security around KCR’s house. Barricades have been erected to stop any gathering n…