Deputy speaker of Lok Sabha and AIADMK leader M Thambidurai demanded that all languages must be called national and given an official status. On Wednesday, during a discussion to mark the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement in Lok Sabha, Thambidurai said people from all languages had fought for[Read More…]
Tag: Rajya Sabha
PM Modi congratulates Smriti Irani, Amit Shah for being elected to Rajya Sabha
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated union minister, Smriti Irani and BJP chief, Amit Shah on being elected to Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. With the victory, Shah has made his maiden entry into the upper house. Polls for the Rajya Sabha seat were held on Tuesday. “Congratulations to BJP[Read More…]
Two types of ₹500 notes: Congress alleges BJP of ‘biggest scam of the century’
The Congress party backed by TMC and JD(U), on Tuesday forced four adjournments of the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha over what it called as “biggest scam of this century” in the printing of two different kinds of 500 and 1000 rupee notes. Opposition Congress members thronged into the well[Read More…]
Gujarat braces for Rajya Sabha polls today: Congress shaken as NCP to support BJP
Gujarat braced for the high stakes polls to three Rajya Sabha seats from the state on Tuesday. In the fight are BJP party president Amit Shah, union minister, Smriti Irani and Congress defector Balwantsinh Rajput from BJP. The Congress is trying to ensure the return to the upper house of[Read More…]
Amit Shah’s entry into Rajya Sabha good for BJP: Prakash Javadekar
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar has said it will be good for the BJP to have party President Amit Shah in the Rajya Sabha. It would be “good for the party when Amit Shah wins Rajya Sabha election”, he said in an interview reported India.com. Praising the newly-elected vice-president M. Venkaiah[Read More…]
Nearly 855 farmers commit suicide in Maharashtra in just four months
Maharashtra has recorded 855 cases of farmer suicide from January to April this year. While the figure is alarming, it is 168 less in number than 1,023 cases registered during the same period in 2016. “The answer to unfortunate instances of farmers’ suicides lies in improving their welfare,” union agriculture[Read More…]
India set to vote for its new Vice-President tomorrow
The members of Parliament are ready to cast their votes for the vice-president’s poll which is scheduled on Saturday. According to speculations, the ruling NDA‘s candidate M Venkaiah Naidu is tipped to be India’s next vice president. Notably, the name of the next vice president of India will be known[Read More…]
BJP overtakes Congress to become largest party in Rajya Sabha
The BJP has overtaken the Congress to become the largest political party in the Rajya Sabha, where it now has 58 members against 57 of the main opposition party. BJP MP Sampatiya Uikey, who was elected to the Upper House following a by-poll in Madhya Pradesh, took oath on Wednesday. His[Read More…]
Opposition to move privilege motions against Sushma Swaraj for ‘misinforming’
Opposition parties will move privilege motions against external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj in the Rajya Sabha for allegedly misinforming the House on India’s foreign policy, on Friday. Reportedly, the leaders of different political parties will move two privilege motions against Swaraj for allegedly “providing wrong information on the Bandung Asia[Read More…]
Sushma Swaraj targets Congress, raises Doklam issue in Rajya Sabha
The Doklam issue was raised in the Rajya Sabha by minister of external affairs, Sushma Swaraj, on Thursday. She also slammed the Congress leadership for its stand on the dispute between China, Bhutan and India. Here is all that she said: She praised PM Modi, adding that his Lahore visit[Read More…]
Twitterathi have a field day with Sachin Tendulkar attending Rajya Sabha
Sachin Tendulkar and boxer Mary Kom were present in Rajya Sabha after Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal had questioned the absence of nominated member from the Upper House of the Parliament. Former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar attended the Rajya Sabha on 3 August. Though Tendulkar attended the proceedings, he was passive at best and didn’t ask any[Read More…]
NOTA to stay in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls, Supreme Court rejects Congress plea
The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a plea by the Gujarat unit of the Congress and allowed the use of ‘None of the Above Option’ (NOTA) during Rajya Sabha elections in the state scheduled for August 8. Refusing to stay the elections, the top court asked the Congress why[Read More…]
Congress questions timing of IT dept raid at Karnataka minister’s residence
Blaming the NDA government of misusing state agencies, the Opposition on Wednesday raised the income-tax raids against Karnataka minister, DK Shivakumar in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. A series of investigations were conducted at a Bengaluru resort where 42 MLAs from Gujarat are staying since 30 July and the properties of[Read More…]
There is no question of me becoming a minister: Amit Shah
Amit Shah on Monday has said that there is no question of him getting designated to the Rajya Sabha and subsequently resigning as the BJP President. When asked if he would fight the Rajya Sabha polls, he said, “There is no question of doing so. I have the responsibility of[Read More…]
Gujarat: Congress flies 44 MLAs to Karnataka fearing more defections ahead of RS polls
The Congress party in Gujarat flew off most of the party’s MLAs to Bengaluru on Friday night after accusing BJP President Amit Shah of engineering defections in Gujarat by “money and muscle power”.Congress is shaken after the exit of six of its legislators in 24 hours, with one more likely[Read More…]
Amit Shah files nomination for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, Amit Shah filed nomination papers for Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat on Friday. Shah was accompanied by Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani and senior party leader Anandiben Patel to the Election Commission office. Currently, a MLA in Gujarat, Shah will be making his debut in[Read More…]
New IPC sections proposed to deal with violence against Northeast people
In an effort to deal with racial violence inflicted on people from the Northeast and others in various parts of the country, the Union Home Ministry is considering putting resources to introduce new Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections for them. Minister of State for home affairs, Kiren Rijiju has told[Read More…]
Accepting Cong support to send Yechury to RS is against Party stand: Kerala CM
Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan has dismissed the likelihood of the party agreeing to designate party general secretary, Sitaram Yechury from West Bengal with the support of the Congress, even as the Central Committee, the top decision-making body of the CPI(M), discusses a third Rajya Sabha term for Yechury. “Accepting[Read More…]
Mayawati to hit back at NDA with party workers conferences
Mayawati who recently resigned from Rajya Sabha for not being allowed to speak on Dalit atrocities”, will address party workers at divisional conferences from18 September onwards to rally the scheduled castes, her core vote bank, around her party which has been suffering electoral reverses since 2012. Mayawati, who directed the[Read More…]
Netanyahu’s ‘reported remarks’ on PM Modi raised in Rajya Sabha
Israeli PM’s remarks on PM Modi’s reason to skip Palestine in his recent visit to Israel were raised in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress on Monday. Anand Sharma of the Congress party gave a notice under rule 267 and sought suspension of listed activities of the house, saying that[Read More…]
Monsoon session: Kapil Sibal denounces lynchings, calls them ‘grotesque violence’
Discussions on issues of national importance continued in the Rajya Sabha on the fourth day of the monsoon session of Parliament. Debates and discussions were held on issues like H1-B visa, India-China border standoff and mob lynchings. The Opposition led by Congress targeted the ruling BJP, where former law minister,[Read More…]
Mayawati resigns from RS, after not ‘being allowed to put across views’
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, Mayawati resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, hours after she had threatened to quit the Upper House for “not being allowed to speak” about atrocities against Dalits and minorities. “I was speaking about the atrocities against Dalits, since I belong to that community. But[Read More…]
Monsoon session: Against Dalit atrocity, Mayawati threatens to quit
The second day of monsoon parliament session was stormy as BSP chief, Mayawati threatened to resign from Rajya Sabha. Soon after, the Opposition troops in the well of the House started shouting slogan ‘Dalit virodhi yeh sarkar, nai chalegi.” The opposition raised slogan in Rajya Sabha against the Narendra Modi government[Read More…]
Parliament monsoon session: Congress passes adjournment motion over plight of farmers
Before the second day of the Parliament monsoon session began, the Congress moved an adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha over the poor condition of farmers across the country. The Opposition seems to attack the Narendra Modi-led NDA government on several issues like farmer’s protests, lynching incidents, Jammu-Kashmir unrest[Read More…]
Why should I tell you the name of our presidential candidate: Amit Shah
The ruling party in Centre, BJP is confident that it will have its own presidential candidate in Rashtrapati Bhavan. However, the name of the candidate has not been revealed even after being asked repeatedly. Now, BJP President Amit Shah has said that “Why should I tell you the name our[Read More…]