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: Unfazed by Samajwadi Party's strong protest which led to a scuffle in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the government said the bill for providing quota in government job promotion will be taken up in the House on Thursday. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath termed as 'deplorable' the incident in which SP member Yashvir Singh snatched the Constitution (117th Amendment) Bill from Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V...
06:44 PM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi: There was a major drama in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday when a Samajwadi Party MP, Yashvir Singh, snatched the SC/ST Quota in Promotion Bill (Constitution (117th Amendment)) from Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasami while he was reading it in the House. Congress President Sonia Gandhi tried to snatch the Bill back from the Samajwadi Party MP but failed to do so. Following the snatching of...
03:45 PM, Dec 19, 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
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: 3:10 pm: The Lok Sabha has been adjourned for the day after repeated disruptions over the SC/ST quota bill. 12:10 pm: The Lok Sabha was adjourned yet again till 2 pm as SP MPs rushed to the well of the House protesting against the SC/ST quota bill. 12:05 pm: There was a ruckus in the Lok Sabha over SC/ST quota in promotions in government jobs. SP MPs rushed...
11:22 AM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has issued whips to its MPs to to vote in favour of the quota in promotions bill amid voices of dissent that are coming not just from the principle opposition party but also the Congress. The Samajwadi Party is accusing the government of using the CBI against it, ahead of the crucial vote. Just days after committing support on the reservation in promotion bill,...
07:40 AM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: Voices of dissent within the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party over the controversial bill providing reservation to SCs/STs in promotions in government jobs became audible on Sunday. This a day before the Rajya Sabha would vote on the bill. Despite a whip from the BJP's central leadership to its Rajya Sabha MPs to vote for the bill, some voice of protests have started coming from within the...
11:58 PM, Dec 16, 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
RS Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien repeatedly warned the SP MPs who were protesting against the SC/ST quota bill that he would name them if they continued to disrupt proceedings. ...
03:08 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to continue its independent probe against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader was meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the controversial SC/ST quota bill. Post meeting, SP sources said that the party will continue opposing the bill that its rival Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has been insisting upon. On Wednesday, an...
11:51 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: There were noisy scenes in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The Upper House suffered an adjournment after BSP supremo Mayawati lashed out at Chairman Hamid Ansari. The BSP supremo rushed to the Well of the House demanding that Ansari makes the government's stand clear on the quota bill. She also slammed Ansari accusing him of leaving the House daily by 12 noon and missing in action during the...
12:52 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Patna: With Parliament set to take up Amendment Bill to restore quota in promotion for SC/STs, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he favoured the legislation. "I and my party JD(U) is in favour of the Bill for restoration of quota in promotion for SC/STs," Kumar told reporters emerging from his favourite "Janata ke darbar me mukhya mantri" programme. He said Bihar has already made such provision. "The...
04:49 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Monday after an uproar over the Constitution amendment bill for SC/ST quota in promotions in government jobs. Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari held an all-party meeting to find a way out of the deadlock. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, BSP leader Satish Mishra, SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath and...
03:10 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: After winning the battle for FDI in retail with the help of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, the UPA government is planning to introduce an amendment bill for reservation of Scheduled Castes and Tribes in promotions in government jobs in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. In lieu of her support on the key FDI vote, Mayawati had sought early passage of the bill. The bill seeks to amend...
09:03 AM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: The contentious promotions-based quota bill for SC/ST candidates is likely to come up in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. It will be moved for consideration and passage by Minister of State V Narayanasamy. While the BSP is demanding its early passage, the Samajwadi Party is opposed to it. The BJP's stand though remains unclear. Rajya Sabha witnessed an uproar for the second consecutive day on Friday on the...
09:27 AM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: The month-long Monsoon session of Parliament that began on August 8 has been one of the least productive sessions by far with protests over Assam violence, CAG report on coal blocks allocation and finally the Bill over SC/ST quota in job promotions stalling the proceedings. No business could be transacted for days due to the daily ritual of slogan shouting and rushing to the Well of the House...
01:55 PM, Sep 07, 2012
The monsoon session of Parliament was a washout with minimal business conducted over 3 weeks as Opposition repeatedly disrupted proceedings over the coal scam. ...
01:51 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Uproarious scenes were witnessed in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday over the Constitution (One Hundred Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, 2012, which provides for reservation to SCs/STs in job promotions, leaving little scope for the Bill to be passed in this Monsoon Session which ends on Friday. The Bill, which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday amid commotion and scuffle between members of SP and BSP in the...
03:47 PM, Sep 06, 2012
