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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Congress party on Monday met Speaker and sought disqualification of 12 Congress MLAs who joined Trinamool Congress. The 12 MLAs who joined TMC met West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamta Banerjee in Kolkata. Senior leader Charles Pyngrope has been elected as the State Party chief. Congress had 17 MLAs, five Congress MLAs elected Ampareen Lyngdoh as … Read more
Several BJP legislators in Goa, who had joined the party after quitting the Congress in 2019, are now lobbying with senior Congress leaders to return to the latter’s fold. Assembly polls in the state are due in February next year. In 2019, 10 of the 15 Congress MLAs in Goa had joined the BJP government … Read more