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Opposition team meeting President on Manipur
Opposition leaders are meeting President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday to raise the Manipur issue after their demand for the prime minister’s statement in Parliament followed by a comprehensive discussion on the violence in the state remained unfulfilled. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge had sought time from President Murmu on behalf...
Shah cites parliament’s right to enact Delhi laws
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Tuesday, defended the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 tabled in the Parliament to replace the Delhi services ordinance, citing Constitutional rights. He termed the opposition to the bill as “politically motivated.” Shah said, ”Our Constitution allows the Parliament...
Most undemocratic paper ever tabled in parliament: AAP
The AAP on Tuesday termed the bill to replace the Delhi services ordinance the most “undemocratic” piece of paper ever tabled in Parliament and asserted that it will replace democracy with “babucracy”. Union Minister Nityanand Rai on Tuesday tabled the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill,...
Violence in religion’s name cannot be tolerated: Kharge
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said violence in the name of religion cannot be tolerated in 21st-century India and the coming generations will have to bear the consequences if people do not unite against such divisive elements. ”What is going on in some parts of Haryana or what...
Owaisi calls Pawar sharing stage with Modi ‘hypocrisy’
. NCP chief Sharad Pawar was on Tuesday accused by AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi of hypocrisy for sharing the stage with PM Narendra Modi in Pune. The Pawar-led party rubbished Owaisi’s remarks, and questioned his “lack of political awareness”. “While in Lok Sabha, NCP & other opposition parties have...
Modi asks UP MPs to pacify sulky, angry people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told the NDA to focus on issues apart from Ram Mandir ahead of the 2024 general elections. At a meeting with MPs from Uttar Pradesh today, the Prime Minister advised the MPs to go local, and “spend more time with the people”, sources said....
Modi says people ready to uproot Rajasthan Cong govt
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an attack on the Congress, saying that the party has turned the “land of heros and heroines into quagmire of misery and infamy”. He also mentioned that the people of the state are ready to “uproot” Congress government and the state will “get a...
Mehbooba claims Mufti had secured assurance on Art 370
PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had put a precondition before Prime Minister Narendra Modi for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir in 2015, seeking an assurance that Article 370 of the Constitution will not be removed by the Centre, party president Mehbooba Mufti claimed on Monday. Addressing a gathering...
Bengal Assembly motion condemns Manipur violence
The West Bengal assembly on Monday passed a motion condemning the violence in Manipur, amid opposition by the BJP. State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay read out the motion in the House in the second half of the assembly session. Speaking on the motion, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condemned...
ED attaches Lalu assets in land for jobs scam
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday attached the properties of Janata Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav the land-for-job scam. The properties include Yadav family’s Delhi and Patna property, including a residential house in New Friends Colony. The agency issued a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act...
Bid to dissuade Pawar from attending Modi event
As NCP supremo Sharad Pawar is set to attend an event that will honour Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an award, several Opposition parties, including his own have voiced their opinions against it saying it won’t look “appropriate.” Pawar will attend an event in Pune on August 1, where...
Key changes in bill to replace Delhi ordinance
The bill to replace the Centre’s controversial ordinance or special order for the control of services in Delhi is likely to be introduced in parliament with key changes, official sources have said. The draft bill, which will be tabled by Home Minister Amit Shah, has been circulated among the...
INDIA MPs slam PM in note to Manipur Governor
The 21-member multi-party delegation of MPs of the Opposition’s Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) alliance that is in Manipur for a two-day visit to assess the situation in the strife-torn state today met Manipur Governor Anusuiya Uikey and shared their experience. In a memorandum submitted to Governor Uikey,...
Lalu ‘predicts’ Modi will settle abroad after 2024 poll
Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad on Sunday claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi was worried about losing next year’s Lok Sabha polls and looking for a sanctuary abroad. Prasad made the remark when his comments were sought on Modi’s “Quit India” jibe a few days ago when the PM...
SP leader rakes up conversion of monasteries
In an apparent reference to disputes in Varanasi and Mathura, Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya said if the BJP looks for a temple in every mosque then people would start searching for a Buddhist monastery in every temple. “The Badrinath and Kedarnath temples in Uttarakhand, the Jagannath Temple...
Delhi minister pulls up official over flood relief delays
Delhi Revenue Minister Atishi pulled up Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar on Saturday over laxity in the disbursal of flood relief amounts to affected families, stating that she was “shocked” when she found out that only 197 families had received the Rs 10,000 ex gratia relief. Amid the ongoing tussle...
Amit Shah making ‘Sin Yatra’ to Rameswaram: TN minister
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin launched a tirade against Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accusing him of starting a “sin yatra” (pava yatirai in Tamil) from the pilgrim town of Rameswaram and claimed that the BJP is also perpetuating family rule. The Home Minister talks...
21 Opposition MPs visiting Manipur today
A 21-member opposition delegation will visit Manipur today to assess the ground situation in the northeastern state where ethnic violence has been raging for nearly three months. The delegation includes Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Gaurav Gogoi of the Congress, Sushmita Dev of the Trinamool, DMK’s Kanimozhi, RJD’s Manoj Kumar...
