All eyes on NDA’s ‘Mangal Milan’ meeting on Tuesday
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Parliamentary Party meeting, now called 'Mangal Milan', will be held on Tuesday at Parliament House.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Parliamentary Party meeting, now called 'Mangal Milan', will be held on Tuesday at Parliament House.
The government has a heavy legislative agenda, and several significant Bills are expected to be taken up during the upcoming session.
To overcome shortfall of numbers in Lok Sabha, BJP intensified outreach to regional and Opposition parties, including DMK and NCP (Sharad Pawar). On Wednesday NCP (SP)appeared to signal openness to Delimitation Bill if conditions met
Congress General Secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government of abandoning its anti-corruption plank, alleging that the Prime Minister's 2014 promise of "Na Khaunga, Na Khane Doonga" (I will neither indulge in corruption nor allow it) had been undermined by a series of alleged scams, cronyism and governance failures over the past 12 years.
Mahua Moitra publicly accused senior TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay of misleading party colleagues about his health and travelling to Delhi amid a growing rebellion by a section of Trinamool Congress MPs.
Ahead of the high-stakes assembly elections in Bihar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah once again invoked the era of Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi’s “jungle raj”, recalling the reign of terror allegedly unleashed by the late muscleman-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin.
Speaking at a public rally in Samastipur, he said the atmosphere in Mithila clearly shows that Bihar will once again vote for progress and reject the “jungle raj” of the opposition.
Commenting on Tejashwi Yadav’s promises, Choudhary said, “He claims he will provide government jobs to 2.7 crore people. Currently, there are about 22 lakh government employees, for whom the government spends Rs 85,000 crore. If 2.7 crore people are given government jobs, it would cost Rs 12 lakh crore, while Bihar’s total budget is only Rs 3.17 lakh crore.”
Announcing this at a press conference attended by all the alliance partners, senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot said that the decision was made with the consent of his party’s national president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Rahul Gandhi.
The evocative question—'Whose Diwali will it be and whose Diwala’—captures the high stakes and emotional intensity of the contest between the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition Mahagathbandhan.
