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NDTV. Now with the support of YSRCP, Om Birla is likely to get the votes of 297 Lok Sabha MPs, clearing the way for him to takeover as the Lok Sabha speaker again.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh failed to give an assurance on the opposition party’s claim to the Deputy Speaker's post.On Tuesday, as the Congress nominated eight-term member Kodikunnil Suresh for the Lok Sabha Speaker's post, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju appealed to the opposition to reconsider its decision.In the Lok Sabha, the Speaker is elected through a simple majority vote.

Click here for Lok Sabha Session LIVE UpdatesThe NDA, which has 293 MPs in the 543-member Lok Sabha, enjoys a clear majority. The Opposition bloc has 234 legislators in the lower House of Parliament.With numbers in favour of the NDA, Om Birla is set to become the Lok Sabha Speaker for a second term.

Constitution in Parliament as Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha. Home Minister Amit Shah was also greeted in a similar manner. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan took oath as Lok Sabha member amid chants of NEET-NET by the opposition members even as a controversy is raging on the entrance examinations that has put the government in the dock. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool leader Kalyan Banerjee, and Samajwadi Party leaders Akhilesh Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad were seated in the first row in the opposition benches. In a prestige battle, Prasad defeated the two-time sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh from Faizabad, the constituency that comprises Ayodhya, by a margin of 54,567 votes.

Congress and alleged that they were silent on the hooch tragedy in Kallakurchi, Tamil Nadu and called it a murder of 32 Dalits. «Today we are here to discuss news from Tamil Nadu, it is about a hooch tragedy, illicit liquor from Kallakurchi, a district of Tamil Nadu. When I came to hold this press conference and was checking the figures, the number of dead was 56. More than 56 people have died and many of them are critical, still about 200 people are admitted to the hospital. This is such an important issue and I am surprised that Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, DMK and all the people of the INDIA alliance are silent on this issue,» said BJP MP Sambit Patra. He further alleged that the INDIA bloc was silent as they felt that it was not serving their interests.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the government over exam paper leaks, saying the issue has become a national problem under the BJP rule which has «ruined the future» of crores of youth. The Congress general secretary's attack comes amid outcry against alleged irregularities in the medical entrance examination NEET and also the cancellation of the UGC-NET examination on Wednesday a day after it was held, citing compromised integrity of the test. In a post in Hindi on X, Priyanka Gandhi said, «In the last five years, papers of 43 recruitment exams have been leaked in the country. Paper leak has become a national problem of our country under BJP rule which has ruined the future of crores of youth so far.» «India is the youngest country in the world. We have the largest youth population. Instead of making these youth skilled and capable, the BJP government is making them weak,» she alleged.

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday resigned from Wayanad seat of Lok Sabha, said the official notification. Earlier during the day, the Congress leader formally informed the Lok Sabha Speaker's office about retaining the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat and vacating the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. Priyanka Gandhi enters political arena:

Rahul Gandhi has decided to retain the Rae Bareli seat and give up Wayanad. Rahul won both seats in the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections 2024.A candidate can contest elections from multiple seats in India.

EVM and used to generate an 'unlocking' OTP. This incident has intensified calls from various political figures in India to replace EVMs with traditional ballot papers. Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has been vocal in his criticism of EVMs.

PTI in an exclusive interviewPriyanka Gandhi Vadra, a scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, will make her electoral debut from a constituency recently won by her brother, Rahul Gandhi. Vadra, 52, will contest the by-election in Wayanad in the southern state of Kerala to try and retain a parliamentary seat for the Congress party.On Congress putting up an impressive show during the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Robert Vadra said, "First, I would thank people of India for teaching a lesson to the BJP. They played religion-based politics.

interview with Financial Times, Rahul Gandhi said, “The numbers are such that they are very fragile, and the smallest disturbance can drop the government. Basically one ally has to turn the other way." Rahul Gandhi refused to further elaborate on his claims.Securing victory on 293 Lok Sabha seats, the NDA won a third consecutive term at the Centre.

Congress leader Pramod Tiwari lauded Rahul Gandhi's decision to retain the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and called it the «right political decision.» Tiwari also thanked the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi for respecting the mandate of Uttar Pradesh. «I want to thank the national leadership of Congress and Rahul Gandhi. He (Rahul Gandhi) has taken the right political decision. Apart from this, he has also respected the mandate of Uttar Pradesh which gave 43 out of 80 seats to the INDIA alliance,» the senior Congress leader told ANI.

Rahul Gandhi will retain Rae Bareli and we have decided that Priyanka ji will fight from Wayanad."Explaining why Rahul Gandhi chose Rae Bareli over Wayanad, Mallikarjun Kharge said the decision was emotional because the Gandhi family has been fighting from this seat for generations. “Rahul Gandhi will retain his Raebareli seat because Raebareli has been close to him from before, that (area) has great attachment to the family, they have been fighting (in elections) from there for generations," he said.Congress has won Rae Bareli 17 of 20 times the elections were held and Rahul Gandhi's mother Sonia has held the seat since 2004.

Priyanka Gandhi is joining the poll race from Wayanad, after Rahul Gandhi opted to retain Raebareli, the Gandhi family bastion.After the announcement was made by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi said, “I am very happy to be able to represent Wayanad and I will not let them feel his (Rahul Gandhi's) absence.""I will work hard and I will try my best to make everyone happy and be a good representative. I have a very old relationship with Raebareli and Amethi and it cannot be broken.

EVMs, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked the Election Commission to ensure complete transparency of the machines and processes or abolish them. The demand came a day after the Congress leader had alleged that the electronic voting machine is a «black box» and nobody is allowed to scrutinise them while further alleging that serious concerns are being raised about transparency in our electoral process. «When democratic institutions are captured, the only safeguard lies in electoral processes that are transparent to the public,» Gandhi said in a post on X. «EVM is currently a black box. EC must either ensure complete transparency of the machines and processes or abolish them,» the former Congress president also said.

ANI, “While I respect Elon Musk and what he has achieved. I think he is factually incorrect in saying that anything can be hacked.

Rahul Gandhi said serious concerns about transparency in the country's electoral process are being raised even as the Election Commission rejected the tampering claim.The poll panel said that EVM is a stand-alone device with ‘robust’ administrative safeguards to protect it from manipulation.The row erupted after Mid-Day newspaper published in its report that a relative of Ravindra Waikar, the winning Shiv Sena candidate from Mumbai North West Lok Sabha constituency was allegedly found using a mobile phone "connected" to an EVM during the counting of votes on June 4. Waikar won the election by 48 votes.The report claimed that Waikar’s brother-in-law Mangesh Pandilkar, had used a mobile phone to “unlock" an EVM when the votes were being counted.

Garibi hatao". Or match up to the machismo of “Ab ki baar 400 paar". Yet somehow the Constitution became the dark horse of the election.

Rahul Gandhi with the revival of the Congress, party MP Gaurav Gogoi says he not only provided «moral and philosophical» leadership to the party but also set the narrative for the Lok Sabha polls which was reflected in the results. In an interaction with PTI editors, Gogoi recalled former Congress president Sonia Gandhi's «we will overcome» message at the Udaipur 'chintan shivir' of the party in May, 2022, to assert that the party had come a long way on the road to revival and was determined to move forward on that path.

India added 'Modi Ka Parivar' to their social media as a mark of affection towards me. I derived a lot of strength from it.

Rahul Gandhi said Tuesday that had his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contested the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have lost by two or three lakh votes. Addressing a thanksgiving meeting here, he said the INDIA coalition parties fought the election unitedly in Raebareli, Amethi and other parts of the country to reduce the strength of the BJP-led NDA in Parliament.

In a scathing attack over the NEET-UG medical entrance row, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on Sunday alleging that ‘irregularities’ in the examination have devastated more than 24 lakh students even before Modi takes oath for a new term in office.