NEW DELHI: Putting stress on performance and participation in Parliament, Congress is learnt to have instituted a system to assess its LS MPs. It has told members that a keen eye is being kept on them and they should live up to the expectations of their large support base that elected them.LoP in Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between the government and the opposition as Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju introduced the Waqf (Amendment) Bill to “correct the wrongs done by the Congress in the past.” The government justified the proposed amendments and said it aimed to empower the marginalised groups within…
NEW DELHI: The debate over the Waqf Act Amendment Bill took an unexpected turn as Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav locked horns with Union home minister Amit Shah. The exchange began when Akhilesh alleged that the rights of the Lok Sabha Speaker were under threat, a claim that quickly drew a rebuttal from Shah.Akhilesh Yadav,…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi and made an interesting counter to his Chakravyuha attack and Mahabharata references during his speech on Union Budget in Lok Sabha. “Shakuni, Chausar, Chakravyuha … all the references of Mahabharata made by Congress are linked to ‘Adharm’,” the Union agriculture…
NEW DELHI: Leader of the opposition and former Wayanad MP, Rahul Gandhi, urged the Centre to support the people of Wayanad during his address in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. “It is a huge tragedy in Wayanad and the military is doing a good job there. I think it is important that we support the…
Former Union minister Anurag Thakur‘s remark that “those whose caste is not known” are talking about caste census sparked an uproar in Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Congress MPs trooping into the well.However, Thakur’s remark, made in the presence of Rahul Gandhi and an articulation of BJP‘s complaint that Congress’s embrace of ‘caste census’ after…
NEW DELHI: New restrictions on movement of mediapersons within the Parliament premises triggered uproar on Monday, with leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi raising the issue in the Lok Sabha and urging the Speaker to “free them from the cage”.Later, in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, sources said Congress deputy leader in LS, Gaurav…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi was misleading the country on the sensitive issue of national security and the govt’s Agnipath initiative, and offered to make a statement in Parliament to clarify the issues.Singh was speaking after Rahul’s speech in Lok Sabha on the Union Budget, as…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday cited Mahabharata‘s ‘chakravyuha’ to attack Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government at the centre while discussing Union budget 2024 in Lok Sabha. The Congress leader used Chakravyuha‘s lotus analogy to target the government saying it has created an “atmosphere of fear” in the country.“When I researched about…
NEW DELHI: Deputy leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi has written to Speaker Om Birla expressing concern “about the deteriorating standards of parliamentary conduct” in the House. He has alleged that “often it is the ministers of govt themselves who make unparliamentary, objectionable and threatening remarks against members of opposition parties”.While asserting that…
