Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had to face the wrath of an angry councillor at a public function on Saturday. BSP councillor Priyanka Gautam of Kondli created a ruckus as the CM chaired the gathering. ...
05:04 PM, Feb 02, 2013
BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday slammed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for his Hindu terror remarks saying he made the statement in "haste" and asked him to place the facts before courts to let judiciary take a decision in this regard. ...
05:31 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Politics over the beheading of Lance Naik Hemraj Singh escalated on Tuesday. Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Ram Gopal Yadav called for war. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too kept up the heat. Party leader Yashwant Sinha demanded that all talks with Pakistan be called off. The Congress reassured of action but said that jingoism should be avoided. ...
06:29 PM, Jan 15, 2013
A day after the government announced a hike in railway fares, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said the decision was against the common man. Demanding a rollback, Mayawati said hike in railway fares was "one of the many anti-common man policies of the government". ...
01:29 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A total of six MLAs and two MPs in India are accused of serious crimes against women, including rape and sexual assault. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Through this week in the run up to the new year we are bringing you Highlights 2012 - the defining images from politics, sports & world events. This year the Prime Minister finally ended the government's policy paralysis and brought in big-ticket reforms - facing stiff opposition & even losing an ally in the process. ...
07:24 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Congress will announce candidates in Uttar Pradesh for 2014 Lok Sabha polls a year in advance, AICC General Secretary Dijvijay Singh said on Wednesday, blaming delay in distribution of tickets for the party's defeat in assembly polls. "Had we started preparation for state assembly polls timely and declared candidates earlier, the performance of party would have been better." ...
04:53 PM, Dec 26, 2012
With just a little more than a year left for the next Lok Sabha polls, Congress may be in for a hard grind electorally in 2013 when major states go to polls with the Bharatiya Janata Party on a high after Narendra Modi's hat-trick in Gujarat. It has been another roller coaster year in 2012 for the Congress heading the United Progressive Alliance government with a major ally Trinamool Congress...
12:05 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Upset with the UPA government for not being able to pass the SC/ST promotion quota bill in the Lok Sabha during the Winter Session, BSP chief Mayawati said that though she has warned the government, she isn't planning to withdraw her support. ...
02:30 PM, Dec 22, 2012
New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Friday lambasted the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government over the SC/ST Quota in Promotion Bill but also said that her party would continue to support the Central Government. Speaking to IBN7 Managing Editor Ashutosh, Mayawati said that the UPA was not interested in passing the Bill and working for the benefit of the Dalit community. Babasaheb Bimrao Ambedkar had demanded reservation...
07:30 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Two sitting MPs and six sitting legislators in different states were fielded by their parties despite cases of crimes against women pending against them, a think tank said on Thursday, four days after a 23-year-old medical student was gangraped in Delhi. Data compiled by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) showed that parties like the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) gave...
12:45 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Despite several disruptions over FDI in retail and promotion quota bill issues, the Winter Session of Parliament (Nov 22-Dec 20) was better than the previous Monsoon Session, during which 13 out of 20 days were washed out to protests over faulty coal block allocations, the government said Thursday. "This was a better session," Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari told IANS. "It was a fruitful session as key...
11:14 AM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha will on Wednesday take up the Constitutional amendment for reservation in promotion for SC and ST in government jobs or the quota bill. The bill has already been passed in the Rajya Sabha despite strong opposition from the Samajwadi Party. The bill faces more trouble in the Lok Sabha with the Samajwadi Party against it and now even BJP in two minds. SP chief Mulayam...
08:26 AM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: After much debate and opposition from the Samajwadi Party, the quota bill on promotions in government services was passed in the Rajya Sabha. The bill was passed almost unanimous with 206 voting for and only 10 against it, despite the Samajwadi Party disrupting both houses to protest the bill. Taking credit for the quota bill, Mayawati said, "The Bahujan Samajwadi Party has struggled a lot for the Quota...
06:49 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: The bill for providing quota to members of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in promotion in government jobs was on Monday passed in the Rajya Sabha by an overwhelming majority. As many as 184 votes were cast in favour of the bill while there were eight votes against it. Following the passage in the Upper House of Parliament, the promotion quota bill will now be sent...
07:19 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly opposed to quota for government job promotions, the Samajwadi Party on Monday asked the government to rethink on the bill, warning that it could have a very serious fallout and may be challenged in court. Participating in a debate on the bill in Rajya Sabha, Ram Gopal Yadav (SP) said government was pushing the constitutional amendment bill just "for some people", an apparent reference to the Bahujan...
06:49 PM, Dec 17, 2012
IBN7's managing editor Ashutosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Quota Bill on promotions. Q. Dear Ashutosh, Why is the opposition to this only the SP and no other party. What is the reason for BJP to support this? Are they seeing this help them in 2014? Asked by: Narayan A. Of course, vote bank politics ... Q. When the number of persons to be benefited by this Bill...
05:36 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The BJP has issued a whip to its MPs to vote for the SC/ST quota bill. Meanwhile, SP MPs continued to protests against the bill in both the Lok sabha and the Rajya Sabha. ...
12:40 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday dubbed as "mere political posturing" the threat of the Samajwadi Party to review its outside support to UPA if the SC/ST quota bill is passed. "SP and BSP are hand-in-glove with Congress. On several occasions, the two have jumped in to save the UPA government...The threat by Mulayam Singh Yadav is a mere political posturing," BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told...
06:26 PM, Dec 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Friday discussed Section 66 of the IT Act which has come under fire over the past few weeks after several people were arrested on charges of posting "offensive" content online. The most prominent of the cases related to the arrests of two girls from Palghar, Mumbai, one of whom had questioned the shutdown in the city after the death of Shiv Sena chief Bal...
11:00 AM, Dec 14, 2012
