New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for disrupting Parliament proceedings and said the BJP will be defeated in the Karnataka elections. "It is unfortunate that the BJP is not allowing the House to function," Kamal Nath said.
"Other political parties want to debate the bills and pass them. It is unfortunate that Parliament session is being washed out," he added.
He said the results of the Karnataka elections will show 'who people trust'. "Tomorrow the Karnataka result will be out, it will tell who is corrupt and who people trust. Tomorrow BJP will be sent out of Karnataka," Kamal Nath said.
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01:49 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Monday told the BJP not to "lecture" the Congress on corruption and said Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar would not resign. "There is no question of their resignation. Did Nitin Gadkari resign as president of the BJP? The BJP should not give us lectures on such matters. Our government knows what is to be done and if...
05:20 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Monday told the BJP not to "lecture" the Congress on corruption and said Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar would not resign. "There is no question of their resignation. Did Nitin Gadkari resign as president of the BJP? The BJP should not give us lectures on such matters. Our government knows what is to be done and if...
07:59 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: There seems to be a breakthrough in the efforts to end Parliament deadlock as the government has managed to get the Opposition on board to pass the Finance Bill. Sources say that the Finance Bill is likely to be taken up on Tuesday along with demands for grants. The demands for grants for four ministries were agreed upon in consultation with opposition parties. This came after Parliamentary Affairs...
12:41 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Parliament will resume on Monday after a wasted week that saw adjournments and uproar over various issues such as 2G scam, coal scam and the Delhi minor rape. The opposition, however, is still not in a mood to relent and is all set to attack the government over the coal scam yet again. In a bid to break the deadlock, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath is likely to...
07:56 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: As the Opposition prepared to scuttle the JPC report on 2G spectrum scam, the government on Thursday expressed confidence that the members will exercise their correct judgement irrespective of their party affiliation. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath's reaction came when asked about the Opposition parties' move to corner JPC Chairman PC Chacko over clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in its report on the 2G scam. "There...
05:33 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: An all party meet convened to reach a consensus on the Land Acquisition Bill remained inconclusive on Tuesday with no headway being made at all. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AIADMK and CPM gave their suggestions, other parties are expected to follow suit by April 15. After all the suggestions are made, there will be another round of meeting on April 18, by when there is likely...
03:39 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said that the government intends to amend the resolution on Sri Lankan war crimes, but was still holding talks with other parties to come to a conclusion. "The position of the party is that we intend to amend the resolution. The opinion among other parties so far is divided. We will continue to speak to other parties to come to a consensus," Chidambaram said....
10:56 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Cabinet at its meeting in the evening on Monday agreed to raise the age of consent to 18. The new legislation was cleared after the Cabinet failed to achieve consensus on the anti-rape bill at the two all-party meetings held on Monday. Emerging from the meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister said that the Cabinet had agreed to raise the age of consent and also made some changes to the Bill,...
07:26 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The all-party meet on anti-rape Bill has begun and the government will move the amendments, hoping to take it to the Cabinet by Monday evening. ...
09:52 AM, Mar 18, 2013
Political parties failed on Thursday to agree on how to compensate farmers for land acquired for infrastructure and industrial projects, dashing market hopes of a breakthrough. ...
02:10 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Amid sustained pressure by political parties from Tamil Nadu, Government on agreed to have a discussion on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue in Lok Sabha on Thursday. ...
03:20 PM, Mar 06, 2013
BJP on Tuesday said it will continue to raise in both Houses of Parliament the issue of diesel price hike, which is hitting the common man, but not stall proceedings. The matter was discussed at the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting attended by its top leaders on Tuesday morning. ...
01:31 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed a motion for the formation of Joint Parliamentary Committee on chopper deal even as the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Trinamool Congress and the Janata Dal (United) walked out of the House opposing the motion. The Opposition punched holes into the government's arguments that it was serious about the truth and nailing the culprits by pointing out that till now only a preliminary enquiry has...
06:28 PM, Feb 27, 2013
The government stood firmly behind Congress leader and Rajya Sabha deputy Chairman PJ Kurien as the Suryanelli rape case came up for debate in the House. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said that no evidence had been found Kurien by the investigating agencies and that the lawyer who represented the rape survivor in the Supreme Court had said that no case could be made against him. ...
02:45 PM, Feb 26, 2013
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath spoke to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate' on various issues that the government has on its hands right now like the tainted AgustaWestland chopper deal, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's clarification on Hindu terror remarks and Suryanelli gangrape case that has brought back Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien into the spotlight yet again. ...
09:00 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has said that the statement issued by Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde expressing regret over his Hindu terror comment was cleared by the BJP before being released publicly. ...
07:49 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath will on Friday make a statement in the Rajya Sabha on the allegations levied against PJ Kurien in connection with the Suryanelli gangrape case. ...
05:45 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said that the government was open to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe on the AgustaWestland chopper deal. A Central Bureau of Investigation team on Tuesday reached Milan in Italy to probe the allegations of kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore deal. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Bahadurgarh in Haryana will become the second town in Haryana to be connected with the national capital through Delhi Metro as the foundation stone for construction of a 12-km corridor was laid on February 2. ...
06:56 PM, Feb 02, 2013
