New Delhi: In a stormy start to the budget session, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) MLAs clashed in the state assembly in Lucknow on Monday. The BSP MLAs shouted slogans at the well of the Lucknow Vidhan Sabha after budget session began on Monday. Leaders of the ruling Samajwadi Party and BSP shouted slogans against each other and took to the well of the House. It was...
11:34 AM, May 28, 2012
Hyderabad: A day after the arrest of a cabinet minister, the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh received another jolt with a state legislator switching loyalty to YSR Congress Party leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and some more legislators were reportedly in touch with him. Daring the Congress leadership, state legislator Alla Nani and MP Sabbam Hari accompanied Jagan on Friday when the latter drove to the CBI camp office for...
05:35 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: Over 6000 villages in 15 districts of Maharashtra are drought affected, and while the state government has announced extra funds for the areas, the government's plan to send 25 MLAs on the annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Board tour to Europe at such a time has met with severe criticism, particularly from MNS Chief Raj Thackeray, whose party sent out a letter requesting the MLAs to cancel the planned trip. Said...
08:01 AM, May 04, 2012
BANGALORE: In a move that could leave former chief minister B S Yeddyurapa red-faced, a group of BJP MLAs have started a signature campaign to press for the early expansion of Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowdas Cabinet.A few like-minded MLAs have grouped under the leadership of Chikmagalur MLA C T Ravi, a follower of state BJP president K S Eshwarappa, and started the signature campaign on Thursday to exert...
08:34 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Bangalore: Renewed political activity is expected in the ruling BJP in Karnataka, with former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa inviting party legislators for a breakfast meeting on March 30 when the assembly budget session ends. Yeddyurappa who shifted legislators to a resort on March 18 in a show of strength to mount pressure on the high command to reinstate him as Chief Minister, has been maintaining a low profile for the...
09:08 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Opposition Congress on Friday questioned the credibility of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report that gave a clean chit to the two BJP legislators accused of watching porn on a tablet device in the Assembly. The party also raised doubts over the authenticity of the iPad given to the FSL in Ahmedabad for scrutiny, saying the device could have been changed and alleged the report was prepared "in...
11:14 PM, Mar 23, 2012
LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj are opposed to the move but BS Yeddyurappa has BJP President Nitin Gadkari's support. ...
10:12 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: After Karnataka porngate has hit Gujarat. Two BJP MLAs allegedly watched porn inside the Gujarat Assembly. They were watching porn on a tablet computer while the assembly proceedings was on. Gujarat Speaker Ganpat Vasava has ordered a probe into allegations against two BJP MLAs of watching obscene pictures during Assembly proceedings. Sources said that the two MLAs facing the allegations are Shankarbhai Lagadhirbhai Chaudhary and Jethabhai Ghelabhai Ahir...
11:29 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Dehra Dun: Fearing poaching by ruling Congress ahead of the confidence vote in Uttarakhand, the BJP has summoned all its 31 MLAs in the state to New Delhi. Party sources said except one or two BJP MLAs, all the 31 MLAs have already left for New Delhi on the instructions of the party high command. When contacted, state party spokesman Satish Lakhera confirmed the development but said the party might...
04:31 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: The political crisis in Karnataka deepened further on Sunday as former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa shifted about 40 of his loyal MLAs to a resort on the outskirts of Bangalore. Yeddyurappa has been demanding his reinstatement as the Chief Minister. His supporters have even threatened to quit and claim that they are ready to face early polls. Ten BJP MPs, who are supporting Yeddyurappa, will meet the party's...
09:43 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Chandigarh: When the newly-elected Punjab assembly meets for the first time later this month, it will look more like a millionaires club than a legislature. The 117-member house has no less than 101 crorepatis, data analysed by NGO Punjab Election Watch (PEW) has revealed. The affidavits submitted by Punjab politicians who have made it to the assembly in the 2012 elections, revealed that the new assembly has 86 percent legislators...
02:09 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Bangalore: Several Karnataka legislators have viewed porn clips in the assembly and not just three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers who quit over the issue on Feb 8, a panel probing the incident said on Thursday. Shrishailappa Bidarur of BJP, who is heading the panel comprising assembly members, told reporters here that legal opinion was being sought on summoning all assembly members believed to have watched the clips. Another BJP...
11:37 AM, Mar 09, 2012
HYDERABAD: Is family welfare minister DL Ravindra Reddy moving closer to Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy? His remarks during an interaction with mediapersons in the Assembly lobbies on Tuesday lent credence to the rumours. Ravindra Reddy is learnt to have said that after the by-elections for the 17 Assembly seats, as many as 70 MLAs would join the Jagan camp.Ever since chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy clipped his...
09:26 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Hyderabad: In an unprecedented action in state legislature history, Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar on Friday disqualified 16 MLAs of ruling Congress who had voted against the party government during a no-trust motion in December last year sailing with expelled Congress leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy. The Speaker also accepted the resignation of Praja Rajyam Party MLA B Sobha Nagi Reddy who too had backed Jagan. The development brings down...
12:34 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Bangalore: Faced with its ministers and lawmakers getting involved in various scandals in Karnataka, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) plans to give them lessons in morality and discipline later this month. "We will hold 'chintan-manthan' (brain storming session) in Bangalore on Feb 24 and 25," state BJP chief K.S. Eswarappa told reporters after the party's core committee meeting here Tuesday. The focus of the meet, party sources said, will...
05:52 PM, Feb 14, 2012
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