Politics

On Tuesday, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa issued an order to the Kannada and Culture Department against celebrating Tipu Jayanti in Karnataka.

Since the Opposition has often been pressing for divisions of votes, BJP members should be present in their respective House, the Home Minister said.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked why the accused MLA is still in the BJP. Vadra wondered whether any hope for justice can be expected from the ruling BJP, whose MLA Kuldeep Sengar is an accused in the case.

The disqualifications came a day ahead of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa seeking the trust vote in the assembly to prove his majority.

Azam Khan made objectionable remarks against Rama Devi who was presiding over the proceedings in Lok Sabha on Thursday.

After meeting some villagers at a guesthouse in Mirzapur last week, Priyanka Gandhi had said her party will pay Rs 10 lakh each to the families of those killed in the violence.

The letter has been signed by leaders of 17 parties, including the Congress, SP, TMC, BSP, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Telugu Desam Party, Communist party of India and the CPI(M).

During the debate on trust vote in the assembly, the BJP had accused the Congress-JD(S) coalition and the outgoing Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy of clearing projects and transfer of officials, despite having lost majority.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, on the other hand, defended his MP and said that there was no ill intention behind Azam Khan's remark.

Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, Shwait Malik (BJP) said some private businessmen have come into the education industry and converted it into a profit making business venture.

Vijay Goel said that lakhs of home buyers had invested their hard-earned money in booking flats. But the greedy builders had cheated them.

The YSR Congress government had decided to review all the PPAs signed by the previous Chandrababu Naidu regime with wind and solar power generators and constituted a high-level committee to renegotiate prices.

The court wanted to know if the KCR government had sought permission from the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority and asked the counsel to provide the design and plan for the new Secretariat.

Citing certain lynching incidents, he said that the current environment of the country is not good. Jawed said the bill violates Article 14 of the constitution as it discriminates between Muslim and other women.

Subrata Chatterjee was assaulted after he tried to protect women post-graduate students from TMC supporters who demanded that they raise slogans such as ‘Mamata Banerjee zindabad’ and 'TMC zindabad'.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Govind Singh said that BJP lawmakers Sharad Kol and Narayan Tripathi were like old family members who had drifted away from the party.