Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday appealed to all political parties, particularly the Opposition, to ensure the smooth functioning of Parliament during the Monsoon Session, asserting that constructive debate, rather than disruptions, would better serve the country's interests.
On the second day of its study visit to Lucknow on Tuesday, the Joint Committee on One Nation One Election interacted with the presiding officers and leaders of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Legislature as well as certain elected members thereof its study visit to Lucknow.
Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, has moved with his family to the government residence at 1 Polo Road, Patna.
Suvendu Adhikari alleged that corruption, including the "cut-money culture" and extortion, had adversely affected industrialisation in West Bengal over the years.
Stung by the Leader of the Opposition, Udhayanidhi Stalin’s persistent debunking of the Joseph Vijay administration as a ‘sofa model government’ which would not last long, Tamil Nadu Health Minister and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) leader KG Arun Raj on Wednesday slammed the DMK scion as a lotus eater, oblivious of the dynastic throne, he was hoping for, getting abolished by the electoral verdict.
Reiterating Tamil Nadu’s firm opposition to the National Education Policy (NEP) introduced by the BJP-led Union Government, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Saturday declared that Tamil Nadu is a Dravidian state, not a saffron one, and will never implement the NEP, which he said aims to saffronise and dismantle the country's education system.
Donald Trump has on Sunday expressed willingness to mediate a resolution to the decades-old Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan.
However, the Congress party urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the developments of the past 18 days.
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav and Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Monday addressed a joint press conference here, condemning the alleged confusion being spread by the opposition among the Muslim community regarding the Waqf Board awareness campaign.
However, the translator omitted this portion in the Malayalam interpretation. Noticing this, the Prime Minister quipped, “Message chala gaya jahan jana tha” (“The message has reached where it was meant to”).
