Leaders, including ex-MP, MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, join BRS

Leaders, including  ex-MP, MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, join BRS

BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao with leaders from Madhya Pradesh who joined the party in Hyderabad on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement A new leaf was added to the expansion of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Tuesday with several leaders from Madhya Pradesh including a former MP and a few former MLAs from Bharatiya … Read more

Constituency units back Meghalaya MLAs’ siding with NPP 

Constituency units back Meghalaya MLAs’ siding with NPP 

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma with State Governor Phagu Chauhan and others during a meeting to submit his resignation and stake claim to form the government, in Shillong on Friday. File | Photo Credit: ANI  The Hill State People’s Democratic Party (HSPDP) appeared to have softened its stand after asking its two newly-elected MLAs – … Read more

Congress slams Madhya Pradesh Govt for distributing ‘assembled in China’ tablets to MLAs

Congress slams Madhya Pradesh Govt for distributing ‘assembled in China’ tablets to MLAs

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President Kamal Nath has already returned the tablet. File | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui Opposition Congress on Thursday hit out at the BJP Government in Madhya Pradesh for handing out tablet computers “assembled in China” to the MLAs. The tablets had been given to the lawmakers for reading the maiden e-budget tabled … Read more

Rajasthan Assembly’s budget session begins with suspension of 3 MLAs

Rajasthan Assembly’s budget session begins with suspension of 3 MLAs

The budget session of the Rajasthan Assembly began on a stormy note on Monday with the Opposition members trying to disrupt Governor Kalraj Mishra’s customary address by raising the issue of rampant paper leaks in the State government’s recruitment exams. Mr. Mishra shortened his speech, reading just a few pages, and left the House. Speaker … Read more

Telangana High Court orders transfer of BRS MLAs poaching investigation to CBI

Telangana High Court orders transfer of BRS MLAs poaching investigation to CBI

A view of Telangana High Court building, in Hyderabad. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal Telangana High Court, on Monday, ordered the transfer of investigation into an attempt to poach four Bharat Rashtra Samiti MLAs to the CBI. The case was currently under investigation by a Special Investigation Team of Telangana police. The SIT was … Read more

Andhra Pradesh: MLA’s ‘Gandhigiri’ act paves way for ending Nellorians’ civic woes

Andhra Pradesh: MLA’s ‘Gandhigiri’ act paves way for ending Nellorians’ civic woes

Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy. File People of Ummareddy Gunta in Nellore can heave a sigh of relief as the drainage problem they have been facing has been resolved with the intervention of Nellore Rural MLA Kotamreddy Sridhar Reddy. Within seven months of the MLA staging a protest, the problem of flooding of the … Read more

MLAs resume Gadapa Gadapaku programme in Vizianagaram district

MLAs resume Gadapa Gadapaku programme in Vizianagaram district

Many legislators have resumed the Gadapa Gadapaku YSR Government programme in the district after a break due to recent Assembly session, rains and other issues. Sringavarapu Kota MLA Kadubandi Srinivasa Rao, Bobbili MLA Sambangi Venkata China Appala Naidu, Nellimarla legislator Baddukonda Appla Naidu and others have been visiting households under the programme to highlight the … Read more

Nitish ‘authorised’ by JD(U) to decide RS poll candidate

Nitish ‘authorised’ by JD(U) to decide RS poll candidate

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was on Friday “authorised” by his Janata Dal (United) to take a call on the party candidate for the upcoming biennial Rajya Sabha elections in the state. Elections to five seats in the Upper House of Parliament from Bihar are due early next month. The JD(U) had held two of … Read more

Maharashtra: No immediate action on Supreme Court ruling on suspended MLAs

Maharashtra: No immediate action on Supreme Court ruling on suspended MLAs

When the Maharashtra assembly’s budget session begins on Thursday, all eyes would be on the status of 12 BJP MLAs, whose one-year suspension was squashed by the Supreme Court in January. Maha Vikas Aghadi insiders told ET that the judgement has raised a number of procedural and constitutional questions on powers and jurisdictions of the … Read more

Setback for BJP: UP Minister resigns from cabinet, likely to join SP; two MLAs say quitting party

Setback for BJP: UP Minister resigns from cabinet, likely to join SP; two MLAs say quitting party

In a jolt to the BJP in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the state cabinet while two other MLAs announced they are quitting the party. Maurya, who is expected to join the Samajwadi Party (SP), said he resigning from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet “due to the attitude of … Read more