It has been just a year and a half that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government assumed power in West Bengal and the fault lines within the party rank and file are already beginning to show. ...
01:03 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Hyderabad: After months of dilly-dallying, the Congress on Monday finally cracked the whip against its rebel MLAs in Andhra Pradesh. Government whip Kondru Murali Mohan submitted a petition to Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar tonight seeking disqualification of 16 Congress MLAs who defied the party whip and voted against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government during the no-confidence motion tabled by TDP in the state Assembly on Monday last. This is the...
10:35 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court upheld the disqualification of the 11 Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) rebel MLAs on Friday. The 11 BJP MLAs had been disqualified by state Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah. The much awaited verdict came as relief for the BS Yeddyurappa government. Yeddyurappa's advisor K Diwakar called the High Court's decision a huge victory. "It is a huge victory for us. We won a constitutional battle," said Diwakar....
02:47 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court will on Friday pronounce its much-awaited verdict on the disqualification of 16 rebel MLAs which is likely to have a bearing on the first-ever BJP government in the south. Justice V G Sabhahit, the third judge who heard the batch of petitions filed by the rebels challenging their disqualification from assembly membership by Speaker K G Bopaiah, will deliver the judgement at 1430 hrs. The...
08:52 AM, Oct 29, 2010
Bangalore: The Opposition Congress suffered another setback on Thursday when one of its legislators resigned from his Karnataka Assembly membership, making him the second from the party to do so in two days. The Karnataka Congress expelled two rebel MLAs, SV Ramachandra and Narayanaswamy. Narayanaswamy, who represented Bangarpet in Kolar district, yesterday submitted his resignation which was accepted Thursday by the assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah, secretariat sources said. He...
05:27 PM, Oct 21, 2010
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court has adjourned till Thursday hearing on petitions filed by 11 rebel BJP MLAs challenging their disqualification from the state Assembly. A single-member bench of Justice V G Sabhahith heard arguments of the advocates of the disqualified MLAs through the entire day before adjourning the court for tomorrow. The advocates argued that the disqualification on the basis of mere withdrawal of support to Chief Minister B...
08:01 AM, Oct 20, 2010
Bangalore: City Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari on Monday justified the entry of police into the Assembly, saying it was done at the instruction of the Speaker K G Bopaiah to control the situation. He said the police entered the Assembly after a written request and instructions from the Speaker stating that the situation inside the House was out of control and the Civil Police also should help in controlling the...
04:33 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Constitutional expert Rakesh Dwivedi says the Speaker must comply with the principles of natural justice. The Independents are not bound by the whip of any party. ...
03:30 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: A division bench of the Karnataka High Court will Monday afternoon hear a joint petition by 16 rebel legislators against their disqualification by Speaker K.G. Bopaiah ahead of the trust vote earlier in the day. "The petition has been admitted and posted for hearing by the bench headed by Chief Justice K.S. Khehar and Justice Manjula Chellur at 3 p.m.," an official of the court's registrar office told IANS....
03:05 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Karnataka chief minister squarely blames the Governor, saying nobody had expected such attitude from him. ...
01:09 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: Opposition Congress and JDS on Monday demanded the immediate dismissal of the BJP government in Karnataka, questioning the method adopted in winning the trust vote. Senior Congress leader and in-charge of Karnataka affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad said it was blatant misuse of the Speaker's authority. "The speaker has no jurisdiction outside the House. He could have taken action only had the BJP rebels defied the whip. He also disqualified...
12:26 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: Unruly scenes broke out near the Karnataka Assembly entrance on Monday with members of opposition Congress, JDS and rebels entering into a wordy duel with police, defying the security cordon and barging into the House. JDS MLAs accompanied by 16 MLAs were prevented from entering the House leading to jostling and culminating in the opposition MLAs breaking open the gates. Some disqualified MLAs also entered into the Assembly hall...
11:21 AM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: The BJP government in Karnataka was in fresh trouble on Monday despite surviving a floor test in the Assembly after Governor HR Bhardwaj recommended President’s Rule in the state terming as “unethical” the disqualification of 16 rebel MLAs. The BJP survived its toughest challenge on Monday as Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa passed a floor test in the Assembly by a voice vote. The win came after the Speaker...
07:16 AM, Oct 11, 2010
Bangalore: The Karnataka government, it seems, could finally survive the crisis after a late night drama on Thursday at a Goa hotel following which rebel BJP MLAs have indicated that they'll return to the Yeddyurappa fold. Twelve rebels MLAs holed up at the Taj Exotica in Goa held the key to the Yeddyurappa government remaining in majority in the Karnataka Vidhan Soudha. Rebel leader Renukacharya told a local TV station...
06:05 PM, Oct 07, 2010
