Politics

Madhya Pradesh Finance minister and Kamal Nath loyalist Tarun Bhanot expressing his support for the move said that the issue shouldn't be politicised even as Digvijaya Singh remained critical of the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status.

The bypoll was necessitated due to Shekhar's resignation from the Rajya Sabha to join the ruling party.

The mayoral election will be held in September this year, after the end of one-year term of current mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun, a corporator of the Congress in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.

Janardan Dwivedi, Deepender S Hooda and Bhubaneshwar Kalita were among those who chose to defy their party's stand on the vexatious issue.

Kalita is a Rajya Sabha member from Assam. He had only a few months left in his tenure and was due to retire on April 9, 2020.

The issue was raised for the second day by Congress Legislature Party leader Narasingha Mishra who asked the BJP members whether they can condemn the people who 'worship' Nathuram Godse.

Disqualified MLAs cannot immediately become ministers, and have moved the Supreme Court against Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar's order to disqualify them. A Cabinet without the rebel MLAs would make the BJP lose their trust, leading to jitters for the newly form...

The AICC general-secretary said that the BJP has now accepted that they were giving protection to a criminal who has now been expelled from the party.

Reacting to news reports claiming a slump in the economy, Sitaram Yechury said the government's 'bluffing and PR' cannot come to its aid now.

While granting the relief to Mukul Roy, Justice AK Chawla asked Roy to join the investigation in the case and to be available for questioning on Friday.

The opposition parties in Maharashtra, particularly the NCP, witnessed its MLAs and key leaders joining the BJP and Shiv Sena last month.

Referring to the recent fall of the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka, he said it was due to the grand old party that the government did not last in the southern state and the BJP had no role in it.

Calling it a historic day for India, Biplab Kumar Deb said that the long-awaited Triple Talaq Bill is an important step towards women empowerment.

The three MLAs A H Vishwanath, K Gopalaiah and K C Narayanagowda had abstained from voting along with 14 Congress MLAs, which led to the defeat of the Congress-JD(S) government during the trust vote on July 23.

Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said the government had approached them to ask which bills they wanted to be sent to Select Committees.

The BJP, so far, has not taken any action against its MLAs Narayan Tripathi from Maihar and Sharad Kol from Beohari who had voted in favour of Kamal Nath government.