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Milind Deora on Sunday targetted Congress leadership after joining Shiv Sena, saying his parent party is not the same as it used to be when Manmohan Singh had launched economic reforms but it is now abusing industrialists, businessmen and calling them anti-nationals. Addressing a gathering at Varsha, the official residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deora said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have a vision for developing the country. He also hailed Shinde as the «most accessible» chief minister.

Vishva Hindu Parishad on Sunday said that senior Congress leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar has been formally invited to attend the consecration ceremony at Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22. An invitation to attend the consecration ceremony has also been extended to former deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha Kariya Munda, it added.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to the high-level committee on «One Nation, One Election» expressing her disagreement with the concept of simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and assemblies, and said it would be against the basic structure of India's constitutional arrangements. In a letter to the panel secretary, Banerjee said that in 1952, the first general elections were simultaneously conducted for the central and state levels.

Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar for recognising Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led party as the «real» Shiv Sena, claiming the Constitution has been trampled upon by recognising a «gang of thieves». The people of the state will not forgive those behind this, an editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana' said while also targeting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Addressing a news conference here, Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut claimed Narwekar was entrusted with doing justice, but he acted as Shinde's lawyer.

Siddaramaiah on Tuesday defended the arrest of two kar sevaks amid attacks by the BJP leaders including union minister Pralhad Joshi, state president Vijayendra Yediyurappa, Opposition leader R Ashoka and former CM Basavaraj Bommai, who have questioned the propriety of the government action ahead of the opening of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. The Hubballi-Dharwad Police have arrested two persons, who are in their 60s now, for participating in the Ayodhya march 31 years ago. The CM, speaking to media at Vijayapura, lashed out at Joshi, who represents Dharwad in the Lok Sabha, saying a criminal was always a criminal until cleared by a court of law. “A crime does not fade away with time.

Ayodhya before that also. Yes, I have not received any invitation and I don't need one. I just have one request that this event should not be made a political one," Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said.

Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Wednesday said Parliament has turned into a «deep, dark chamber,» as he accused the central government of maintaining silence on the security breach. In a post on X, O'Brien said that unlike now, after the 2001 Parliament attack, the then prime minister and home minister had given statements in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. «2001 Parliament attack: In 3 working days, a full discussion in Parliament.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bigwigs led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the 'Sadaiv Atal' memorial in New Delhi on Monday to offer floral tributes on the 99th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar were also present at the memorial. Leaders like Former President Ram Nath Kovind, BJP National President JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, and others paid their respects by offering floral tributes on the occasion.

ALSO READ: ‘Govt will have its way but…’: Mallikarjun Kharge writes to Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar over suspension of MPs The whole exchange of letters began after 45 Rajya Sabha Opposition MPs and 33 Lok Sabha Opposition MPs were suspended from the Winter Session of the parliament, for disrupting the session. Stating that the disorder by Opposition MPs was deliberate and strategized, Dhankar stressed that as members of Parliament ', we need to exemplify out conduct worth emulating by others'.

Winter Session to 141, both Houses will reconvene for business on Wednesday. As the session resumes at Lok Sabha, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is to move a bill to amend and consolidate the law relating to the development, expansion and operation of telecommunication services and telecommunication networks; assignment of spectrum in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. While Mos Law, Arjun Ram Meghwal will be moving the bill to regulate the appointment, conditions of service and term of office of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners, the procedure for transaction of business by the Election Commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, as passed by Rajya Sabha, be taken into consideration. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Singh Thakur to move that the Bill to provide for press, registration of periodicals and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, as passed by Rajya Sabha, be taken into consideration. Apart from that bill to consolidate and amend the provisions relating to offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto and the Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to Criminal Procedure moved by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 19 will also be taken into consideration. Meanwhile, Mos Jitendra Singh will make statement regarding the status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 376th Report of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change on Demands for Grants (2023-2024) (Demand No. 89) pertaining to the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was seen making a video of the performance, earning the ire of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leaders. Now add to that The Jat Association. The targeting of the vice president drew sharp reactions as the Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar himself termed the opposition actions as "shameful" and "insult" of his background as a farmer and "position as a Jat".

MPs were suspended from Parliament during the ongoing Winter Session 2023. The session — which commenced on December 4 — saw 14 suspensions last Thursday, 78 on Monday and 49 on Tuesday. The suspension of Parliament members is the largest in the country’s history.

Parliament security breach issue in both Houses. This was decided at a meeting of the alliance's constituents in the Parliament complex, a day after 78 MPs in both houses were suspended for raising the demand.

winter session, saying that the mother of democracy has orphaned it. He urged citizens to take the onus of ensuring the 'survival of democracy'. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sibal wrote, “Mother of Democracy.

Parliament Security Breach: A total of 92 Members of Parliament has been suspended for the remainder of the ongoing Winter Session, scheduled to end on 22 December. Ruckus in Parliament ensued after the 13 December Parliament security breach incident, with Opposition MPs seeking a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah. On Monday, in a a rather unprecedented move, 78 opposition MPs were suspended from Parliament within a day, marking the highest number of suspensions from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.

markets and a depreciation of the domestic currency is likely to enhance the competitiveness of the country’s exports while making imports of goods costlier. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary also said spill-overs from geo-political tensions, aggressive monetary policy tightening across the world and recent surge in crude oil prices are some of the factors exerting pressure on the rupee against the dollar. At the same time, the exchange rate is only one of the several factors that influence demand for exports and imports in an economy, Chaudhary said. These factors include the types of the tradeables (essential or luxury items), availability of substitutes, freight costs and income growth of countries that buy goods and services from India. “Thus, the impact of recent depreciation of the Indian Rupee against the US Dollar, on levels of exports and imports cannot be isolated,” he added. The domestic currency has depreciated by more than 41% against the greenback since May 30, 2014 when one dollar equalled Rs 59.03. He said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulates the foreign exchange market with a view to ensuring its “orderly functioning and development while eschewing undue volatility”. The central bank has announced a raft of steps in recent years to diversify and expand the sources of forex funding to mitigate exchange rate volatility and dampen global spill-overs, Chaudhary said.

Parliament (MPs) have faced suspension from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. As the session approachs the conclusion in four days, the count is just eight short of reaching a significant century. The recent wave of suspensions saw 34 Rajya Sabha members barred from participating in the remaining session on Monday.

Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to Speaker Om Birla on Sunday night, urging him to revoke the suspension of 13 Opposition MPs and “restore normalcy” in the House. The letter comes after the Parliament works were stalled for two consecutive days last week over the security breach in LS and over Opposition demand for the Home Minister’s statement on the matter.

they were just "rumours". Also Read | India vs Bharat row: Is name change for India to ‘Bharat’ possible? Mahua Moitra was being investigated over the allegations that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP took bribes to pose questions against businessman Gautam Adani at the Lok Sabha. An ethics committee sat to probe the allegations.

ALSO READ: 'New Parliament building not configured well': Opposition hits out after major security lapse at Lok Sabha Some of those incidents are listed below: 1. On February 13, 2014, then Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal used pepper spray in Parliament, reportedly in a bid to stall the tabling of the Telangana Bill — the legislation to carve out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh. The "expelled Congress MP" had then claimed he did it in self-defence, the Indian Express had reported. 2. The late 1990s witnessed an incident similar to the one that happened on Wednesday.

Congress Lok Sabha member from Punjab, Ravneet Singh Bittu, on Monday requested the Modi government to get US-based Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun extradited by building a strong case against him. Bittu lashed out at Pannun's recent threat to bomb the Indian Parliament and an Air India plane.