Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini, left, applauds as Harvinder Kalyan assumes as the new speaker of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, in Chandigarh on Friday, October 25. | Photo Credit: PTI Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Harvinder Kalyan was unanimously elected as Speaker of Haryana Assembly on Friday (October 25, 2024), even as the newly-elected MLAs … Read more
The Returning Office for the Rajya Sabha elections in the State announced that the electoral college had unanimously elected three candidates to the seats left vacant by their predecessors. Those elected are Harris Beeran of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Jose K. Mani of the Kerala Congress and P.P. Suneer of the Communist Party of … Read more
TDP Sattenapalle Assembly constituency candidate Kanna Lakshminarayana. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao Alleging that YSRCP Minister Ambati Rambabu failed to develop and address the persisting problems of people in the Sattenapalli Assembly constituency for the past five years, TDP candidate and former Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana has assured that he would solve the irrigation and drinking … Read more
The TSPEA felicitating P. Rathnakar Rao, elected as general secretary of the AIPEF, in Hyderabad on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Telangana State Power Engineers’ Association (TSPEA) on Monday felicitated its members elected as the office-bearers of the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) at the federation’s executive committee meeting held at Chennai … Read more
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi Legislative Party (BRSLP) unanimously elected former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao as the leader of BRSLP. The MLAs, who met at Telangana Bhavan ahead of the Assembly session on Saturday, unanimously decided to elect KCR as their leader. The meeting was chaired by BRS Parliamentary Party leader K. Keshava Rao and … Read more
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. File | Photo Credit: PTI Amid the raging disqualification tussle between the rival Shiv Sena groups, Maharashtra Deputy CM and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Devendra Fadnavis exuded confidence that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde would not be disqualified, remarking that even if that happened in the unlikely event, then Mr. … Read more
The police are investigating whether the murder was fallout of political rivalry or personal enmity. | Photo Credit: Reuters A newly elected TMC panchayat member was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on July 29. Another person accompanying him was critically injured after being shot at and … Read more
Rudrappa Lamani, 64, three-time Congress MLA, was elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday. He belongs to the Banjara community and served as Minister in the previous Congress government. Earlier, the Congress had picked Chamarajanagar MLA C. Puttarangashetty for the post, but he declined to take it up. Mr. Lamani, … Read more
Eight newly-elected MLCs from the local body constituencies took charge at the Legislative Council on May 15. Council chairman K. Moshenu Raju administered the oath of office to them. The MLCs are P. Rama Subba Reddy (Kadapa), Meriga Muralidhar (Nellore), Kavuru Srinivas and Vanka Ravindranath (West Godavari), Kudupudi Suryanarayana Rao (East Godavari), Narthu Rama Rao … Read more
Legislative Council Chairman Moshen Raju administered oath to the newly elected MLCs Ramgopal Reddy, Panchumarthi Anuradha, Vepada Chiranjeevi Rao, and Kancharla Srikanth as Council members on Friday. Later, speaking to reporters, Mr. Ramgopal Reddy said that Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s comment, “why not 175?” was beyond logic. I got elected from Pulivendula as … Read more