BHUBANESWAR: Less than two months after BJD’s Mamata Mohanta quit Rajya Sabha and the party and joined BJP, the Naveen Patnaik-led party suffered another blow with another RS MP Sujeet Kumar resigning from the Upper House and BJD on Friday. Later, he joined BJP, boosting the party’s prospects of increasing its tally in RS. Sujeet,…
NEW DELHI: The NDA reached the majority mark in Rajya Sabha on its own for the first time since it assumed office in 2014 with BJP winning nine seats and its allies two in bypolls to 12 seats in the latest round. All candidates were elected unopposed.BJP now has 96 seats in the House of…
KOLKATA: The Bengal govt removed former Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen from the post of adviser to Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Saturday, two days after he was removed as TMC spokesperson.It is believed that Sen’s stance on the rape-murder at R G Kar hospital has cost him his post in KMC. Just before the…
NEW DELHI: Jagdambika Pal, a senior BJP Lok Sabha member, has been appointed the chairperson of the joint committee of Parliament that will examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, according to a Lok Sabha notification issued on Tuesday. The official notification said Speaker Om Birla named Pal the head of the 31-member committee. The government…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was adjourned sine die on Friday, one sitting ahead of the scheduled end of the session, with the two Houses passing several key pieces of legislation, including the Finance Bill, 2024, and the Appropriation Bill, 2024 — both crucial for the Union Budget.The session gained significance after the introduction of the…
NEW DELHI: Congress functionary and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh submitted a notice to initiate privilege proceedings against Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, on Thursday, for “misleading” the House regarding the removal of the Preamble to the Constitution from NCERT textbooks for classes III and VI students.In his letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar,…
NEW DELHI: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who has had several run-ins with the opposition leaders during the ongoing Budget session, was at the centre of another fiery faceoff in Rajya Sabha on Friday. An enraged Dhankhar took Jaya Bachchan head on after the Samajwadi Party MP objected to the “tone” of Rajya Sabha Chairman against opposition…
NEW DELHI: Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar engaged in a heated exchange with Samajwadi MP Jaya Bachchan amid massive uproar in the Upper House on Friday. During the commotion, Dhankar accused the opposition MPs of showing disrespect towards the Constitution and democracy. He then called upon Jaya Amitabh Bachchan to address the…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar strongly criticized TMC leader Derek O’Brien and other opposition leaders following the chaos that erupted over demands for a discussion on wrestler Vinesh Phogat‘s disqualification from the Paris Olympics. The opposition walked out of the House after their demand to discuss the matter was not taken up.Dhankar reprimanded…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha saw a verbal spat between Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and leader of opposition (LoP) Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday when the latter sought to raise an “emergent issue” (disqualification of wrestler Vinesh Phogat) during the discussion on Appropriation Bill, but it was turned down by the Chair. When Kharge and Congress members asked…
