Even as Amit Shah says Bill will be introduced in ongoing Budget Session, section in BJP and government feels it can wait until Bihar elections are over.
The Lok Sabha has passed a Bill to set up the Tribhuvan Sahkari University in Anand, Gujarat, that is named after Patel, the man who gave Verghese Kurien a job at the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union that was later rechristened Amul.
The movie’s reference to the Gujarat riots has rankled several right-wing outfits, which have claimed it attempts to "malign Hinduism" and "appease anti-national elements".
A gang rape in 1999 led to the Congress’s downfall in the state. The party is now looking to kickstart its revival by targeting the Mohan Charan Majhi government over crimes against women.
AIMPLB to protest Waqf Bill in Andhra Pradesh, while AAP is set to protest “free alcohol” in UP and Congress concluded its week-long J&K statehood agitation
Congress insiders say party will scale up its offensive against what it called the “government’s attempts to silence the Opposition” inside and outside Parliament.
As nearly half of its MLAs stay away on last day of Budget Session, despite a whip, TMC faces a familiar problem, hopes strict action will do the trick this time.
Ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls later this year, the intensity of the clashes between the leaders has risen, with CM Nitish Kumar personally targeting Rabri, and RJD accusing him of having no respect for women
As leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru and Atal Behari Vajpayee showed, Indian politicians in the past could often take jokes cracked at their expense. That is not the case now.
“Kunal Kamra is a good artiste and has a good sense of humour. But words like gaddar (traitor) should not be used. Comedy is fine, but he should have been careful about the language he used. He should not have sung that song,” says Athawale.
While the Samajwadi Party chief cannot afford to disown Ramji Lal Suman, who made the controversial comments about the Rajput ruler, he also cannot ignore the Rajput, or Thakur, community that had an impact in the Lok Sabha polls last year.
“I am one of those who supports artists… We went there just to talk, but their response triggered it … Had we planned it, we would have carried something with us,” says Rahool Kanal, the leader of the Sena group.
The appointment of a Deputy Speaker is a widely regarded parliamentary convention, with the Opposition holding the post continuously from 1990 to 2014. But the post has been vacant since 2019, Opposition parties point out in a letter to the Speaker.
The push for the OBC quota comes amid Congress gaining visibility with attacks on the Mohan Charan Majhi government over rising atrocities against women.
In recent years, MPs’ salaries have by far outstripped the per capita national income. With the latest hike, parliamentarians earn more than 13 times greater than the per capita monthly income of Rs 9,363.
