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.
Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha has issued an emotional appeal to his supporters after the NDA announced its seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, in which his party has been allocated only six seats.
The announcement follows a series of back-to-back meetings in New Delhi attended by senior alliance leaders, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda, to finalise the seat distribution and shortlist candidates.
As per reports, the BJP and JD(U) are together expected to contest on around 200 to 203 seats of the total 243, while the remaining three allies would together contest on 40 to 42 seats. Further, Chirag Paswan's LJP (Ram Vilas) is likely to be allotted 26 seats, Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) eight, and Upendra Kushwaha's RLM six.
The BJP held a marathon meeting at its state headquarters, chaired by the party’s Bihar election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan and co-incharge Vinod Tawde.
Speaking to the media at the party's state headquarters here, Trivedi said, "Unlike the INDI block, the NDA has resolved all poll-related issues and is confident about its poll prospects."
