Tag: Congress MLA

Govt should get special Girdawari done, give compensation to farmers for damaged crops: Congress MLA

 Former Education Minister and current Congress MLA from Jhajjar, Geeta Bhukkal has demanded that the government should conduct a special Girdawari

March 19, 2023

Congress MLA gets anticipatory bail in sexual assault case

Eldhose Kunnappilly, informed the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) leadership, which had sought an explanation from him that he was innocent and the case was fabricated. The MLA has stated that the case was politically motivated.

October 20, 2022

Cong believes in mere politics and daydreaming: Jai Ram

The Chief Minister was addressing a public meeting at Tahliwal in Una after inaugurating and laying foundation stones of developmental projects worth about Rs 71.16 crore in Haroli Assembly segment of Una district.

November 4, 2020

BJP MP, Congress MLA in Karnataka test Covid-19 positive

BJP MP from Karnataka's Chamarajnagar, V. Srinivas Prasad and Congress MLA from Bengaluru's Chamarajpet, Zameer Ahmed Khan have tested Covid-19 positive

August 19, 2020

B’luru MLA: Why did mobs attack my house?

The Congress leader said outsiders came and attacked his house and urged the police and government to investigate the matter.

August 13, 2020

‘It took police firing to control Bengaluru riot’

"Due process was followed and firing happened and only then did the situation come under control," Central Crime Branch (CCB) Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Kuldeep Jain told IANS on the violence that broke out on Tuesday night.

August 12, 2020

Gujarat CM under self-isolation after meeting Coronavirus positive MLA

'CM Rupani's health is fine and he will run the state administration without meeting anyone, through technological facilities like video conference, video-calling and tele-calling,' Chief Minister's Office (CMO) secretary Ashwani Kumar said on Wednesday.

April 15, 2020

‘Difficult for Congress MLAs to resist BJP pressure’

Goa Congress chief claimed it was "very difficult" to resist the BJP's aggressive overtures and accused the ruling party of using money and government agencies to pressurise non-BJP MLAs.

June 7, 2019

Karnataka drama: CLP meeting on 18 Jan, Dy CM accuses BJP of trying to destabilise govt

Amid the ongoing drama over alleged horse trading in Karnataka, the Congress on Wednesday called a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting on 18 January in Bengaluru.

January 16, 2019

Congress MLAs unreachable to media, not to me: HD Kumaraswamy

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy rejected reports that some Congress MLAs have gone incommunicado and are unreachable to the Congress-JD(S) coalition.  

January 16, 2019

Odisha Congress MLA to resign over Kunduli gangrape incident

Congress MLA Krishna Chandra Sagaria on Tuesday said he will resign as member of Odisha Assembly, protesting alleged injustice meted out to a gangrape and suicide victim of Kunduli in Koraput district. A 14-year-old girl had alleged she was gangraped by four persons in uniform on October 10, 2017. However, the police had ruled out...

October 30, 2018

Angry Mamata pulls up ministers

In the Assembly Didi seeks to know why some of her ministers failed to give specific answers asked by Congress MLAs.

July 27, 2018

Rahul Gandhi condoles death of Congress MLA Siddu Nyamgouda

Siddu Bhimappa Nyamgouda, 67, the newly-elected Karnataka Congress MLA from Jamkhandi in Bagalkot district of the state, passed away in a road accident in the early hours of Monday. The vehicle, in which Nyamagouda was travelling met with an accident near Tulasigere, a village located close to Kaladgi in the same district. According to reports,...

May 28, 2018

Congress MLA KR Ramesh Kumar becomes Speaker of Karnataka assembly

KR Ramesh Kumar, the Congress MLA from Srinivaspur, was elected unanimously as the Speaker of the Karnataka assembly on 25 May just ahead of the floor test of the newly-elected government led by HD Kumaraswamy.

May 25, 2018

Rajya Sabha polls: Congress MLA accused of disclosing vote

Controversy erupted during the Rajya Sabha polls here on Friday after a Congress MLA was accused of disclosing her vote in violation of election norms. BJP candidate Saroj Pandey’s voting agent alleged that Congress MLA Anila Bhediya violated the rules by disclosing her vote cast in a secret ballot. Bhediya, however, denied the allegation and...

March 23, 2018

Son of Congress MLA who allegedly beat man in Bengaluru surrenders

Mohammed Haris Nalapad, the son of Congress MLA NA Haris, surrendered before the police on Monday, 19 February, a day after an FIR was filed against him in connection to the brutal assault on a man in Bengaluru. He was taken into police custody after his surrender at the Cubbon Park police station. According to...

February 19, 2018

Goa Leader of Opposition, wife booked in disproportionate assets case

The leader of Opposition in the Goa assembly and Congress MLA Chandrakant Kavlekar and his wife Savitri, also a Congress leader, booked in connection with a 2013 disproportionate assets case on Saturday, even as Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths raided the residence and office premises owned by the couple. According to Superintendent of Police (ACB) Bosco George,...

September 16, 2017