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PTI quoted a State govt official as saying. According to details, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP chief JP Nadda, and other leaders of the party are expected to be presented at the ceremony. The former Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vishnu Deo Sai was chosen as the new Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh by the party.

BJP members in the Lok Sabha on Monday raked up the issue of recovery of a huge amount of cash from a distillery company linked to Congress' Jharkhand Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu. Sanjay Seth, the BJP member from Ranchi, raised the issue during the Zero Hour, seeking a reply from the Congress.

Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday said she did not approve any answer to a question in the Lok Sabha on declaring Hamas a terrorist organisation, prompting the opposition to call for a probe. «You have been misinformed as I have not signed any paper with this question and this answer,» the minister of state for external affairs said in response to a post on X on the Lok Sabha question on declaring Hamas a terrorist organisation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on her 77th birthday. «Best wishes to Smt. Sonia Gandhi Ji on her birthday.

defence ministry in Parliament on Friday. Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt also said 9,119 posts of sailors are lying vacant in the Navy as on October 31.

Congress leader Mahua Moitra was on Friday expelled from the Lok Sabha on the recommendation of Ethics Committee report in the 'cash for query' that was tabled in the Lower House today. The Ethics Committee report probing 'Unethical Conduct' of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP had recommended that Moitra «may be expelled» from the Lok Sabha and called for an «intense, legal, institutional inquiry» by the central government in a «time-bound manner». «The serious misdemeanours on the part of Mahua Moitra calls for severe punishment. The Committee, therefore, recommend that Mahua Moitra, MP may be expelled from the Membership of the Seventeenth Lok Sabha,» the report stated. What's the road ahead for Mahua Moitra: As per legal experts, Mahua can challenge her expulsion in the court of law, citing that " there was no evidence of cash or gift given to her." Minutes after her expulsion as a Lok Sabha member, Moitra said she has been found guilty of breaching a code of ethics that does not exist and that there was no evidence of cash or gift given to her. Is there any precedence similar to Mahua Moitra's case: In December 2005, the Lok Sabha had expelled 10 members and a Rajya Sabha member from Parliament in a cash-for-query scam. In 2005, a sting operation conducted by online news site Cobrapost and aired on a private TV channel brought to light a cash-for-query scam.

Mahua Moitra defamation case: Delhi High Court renotifies matter for December 11 The revised list of business for Friday issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat has listed the Ethics Committee report as agenda item number 7. Various opposition members have insisted that there should be a discussion on the recommendations before a decision is taken on Moitra.

Amit Shah in Parliament said Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) is part of India and hence 24 seats have been kept reserved for the region in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, the MEA on Thursday said," 'PoK is ours' remark in the Lok Sabha, MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said, “...I don’t think I need to really reiterate our position on PoK. I don't need to clarify the Home Minister's statement in the Parliament.

Narendra Modi was given standing ovation at BJP Parliamentary Party meeting on Thursday. The PM was felicitated for party's victory in Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Telangana CM Oath Ceremony Live Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union ministers S Jaishankar, Amit Shah and Ashwani Vaishanaw were among other MPs who arrived on Thursday morning in Parliament to participate in a key Parliamentary party meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today.

government told Parliament on Wednesday that e-commerce is an emerging and dynamic sector, and wide stakeholder consultations are required for formulation of a national policy on the sector. Minister of state for commerce and industry Som Parkash said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that a draft e-commerce policy was placed in public domain on February 23, 2019 for public consultations. “Suggestions have been received from various stakeholders.

NCP asked former Indian cricket team coach Ravi Shastri on Monday to speak on the situation in ethnic strife-torn Manipur, soon after he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the BJP's electoral success in three states. «Mr Ravi Shastri, you always say, 'Like a Tracer Bullet....' Well then, please say something about the bullets that have taken many innocent lives in Manipur,» Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) national spokesperson Clyde Crasto said on X.

Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said there is no proposal to relax the existing terms for borrowing capacity of state governments, including Kerala for 2023-24. Kerala has requested the Centre to allow an additional borrowing equivalent to one per cent of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) over and above the borrowing ceiling fixed for 2023-24 fiscal year. In a reply in the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said the Centre applies a common yardstick while fixing the annual borrowing limit of all state governments under Article 293(3) of the Constitution.

KCR-led BRS has been ruling the state since 2014 when Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh. 2. Telangana Congress party chief Revanth Reddy who won from Kodangal constituency with a margin of over 32,000 votes defeating his nearest BRS rival Patnam Narender Reddy addressed a press conference and said that the national party's responsibility has increased.

Narendra Modi. Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje, Mahant Balak Nath, who emerged victorious from the Tijara assembly constituency on Sunday, Rajasthan BJP chief CP Joshi and Union Minister Gajendra Shekhawat are said to be among the top contenders for the chief minister's chair, news agency ANI reported quoting sources. Vasundhara Raje, a two-time former chief minister, secured a fresh term in the House from the Jhalrapatan constituency in Jhalawar, winning by a margin of 53,193 votes and garnering a total of 1,38,831 votes.

BJP which won just one seat in the 2018 Telangana assembly polls, has almost doubled its vote share and bettered its seat tally in the southern state in the hustings that comes months ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls. The saffron party's vote share surged from 7 per cent in 2018 to 13.88 per cent in the present assembly polls even as its number of seats has gone up to eight. The party also won two by-polls, giving it three members in the outgoing assembly.

Kamal Nath had lost his chief minister's seat in 15 months after coming to power in Madhya Pradesh state in 2018. The Congress had won the 2018 assembly election by a wafer-thin margin.

Telangana Assembly polls came to an end at 5 pm Tuesday, after witnessing the longest poll season among the five states including Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan, which have already completed the voting process of their elections. The upcoming Telangana Assembly elections is going to witness a triangular contest between Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The ruling BRS is trying to retain power for the third consecutive term, while the Congress is vigorously trying make a comeback, and the BJP is also confident to win a clear majority to get into power in the state.

Tale of two states: What numbers tell us about AP, Telangana 1. As many as 2,290 contestants are in the fray for the upcoming elections, including BRS supremo and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, his minister-son KT Rama Rao and BJP Lok Sabha members Bandi Sanjay Kumar, D Arvind, and Soyam Bapurao. EC withdraws permission to Telangana to disburse aid under Rythu Bandhu Scheme 2.

BJP Karnataka President B Y Vijayendra on Sunday said he would «set right» any discordant notes over his appointment in the coming days, and take everyone along. «If there are any minor differences, then my first priority will be to take the party forward with the blessings and guidance of seniors in the party. I will set right any discordant notes in the coming days,» the son of BJP veteran B S Yediyurappa told reporters here.

Mahua Moitra is scheduled to appear before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee on Thursday, which is currently investigating 'cash for query' allegations. In a letter addressed to the committee prior to her appearance, Mahua confirmed her attendance for the hearing scheduled on November 2. She has also requested permission to cross-examine both Darshan Hiranandani, the alleged 'bribe giver,' and Advocate Jai Dehadrai, the complainant in this case. The allegations against Mahua Moitra revolve around claims of 'cash for query' made by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey.

TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Tuesday sought to delete as parties several media houses from her plea before the Delhi High Court against circulation of alleged fake and defamatory content against her. Counsel for Moitra, while stating that he was not pressing any interim relief in the matter at this stage, told Justice Sachin Datta that the lawsuit would only continue against two defendants — BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai.