Several Trinamool Congress MPs will cycle to Parliament on Monday to protest against the rise in prices of fuel and other commodities, the party said. The party MPs from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will hold the protest at 10:15 am. They will also hold a dharna at Vijay Chowk. The All India Trinamool … Read more
Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, Opposition leaders are scheduled to meet on Sunday to chalk out a strategy to target the Central government over several issues including farmers agitation, privatisation and Supreme Court‘s comments on the validity of Sedition laws. Speaking to ANI, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP and floor … Read more
The Narendra Modi government has set up a ministry of cooperation and handed over its reins to the powerful home minister Amit Shah. The recent history of India’s ministry formations tells us two things. Creation or, for that matter, even dismantling of a ministry is always a political call. For the government of the day, … Read more
Government plans to bring 31 Bills, including six on Ordinances, in the Rajya Sabha during the monsoon session starting on Monday while the Opposition has demanded discussions on a host of issues including the Covid situation and threat of a third wave, farmers’ protest, alleged threat to cooperative federalism, relations with Afghanistan and China. Vice … Read more
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) leader Balbir Singh Rajewal on Wednesday said the umbrella body of farmers’ unions has issued a ‘peoples’ whip’ to all MPs to demand scrapping of farm laws and a legal guarantee on MSP in parliament during the monsoon session. The agitating farmers said their planned protests at the Parliament from July … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a Union Cabinet meet on Wednesday, its first physical meeting in over a year. The Union Cabinet will meet at 11 am on Wednesday. Sources said the last Cabinet meeting held physically was in the first week of April last year, when the coronavirus pandemic struck the country. The … Read more
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said that those members of the House who have been administered at least one dose of the Covid vaccine will not have to undergo RT-PCR test for attending the forthcoming monsoon session of Parliament. A total of 441 MPs have been vaccinated so far. The Speaker visited Parliament House … Read more
The Congress on Sunday said reports of the party’s leadership change in the Lok Sabha are “premature and unfounded”. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha and there are reports about his replacement, days before Parliament is set to meet. The Monsoon session of Parliament is scheduled to start … Read more
The Congress on Saturday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Rafale deal, saying it is the only way forward to find the truth about “corruption” in the purchase of the fighter jets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should come forward and order the investigation, the party said. The Congress’ demand came after French investigative … Read more
Not a single MP in either Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha had objected to the construction of a new parliament building when a request for it was made by both the Houses to the Centre, Speaker of the lower house Om Birla said on Friday. Describing the new Parliament building as a “necessity”, he said … Read more