Politics

Banerjee endorsed Thackeray's remarks and asked why was India still using voting machines when countries like the USA and Japan have stopped using them after coming to know of their drawbacks.

The Trinamool Congress MP had earlier said the way the bills were being passed amounted to a 'mockery of Parliament' and was the government's way of 'smothering' the Opposition.

Moving the bill, Ravi Shankar Prasad said the proposed legislation should be not seen through a political prism or vote bank politics, as it aims to ensure gender dignity and equality.

Claiming that the CBI works at the Centre's directive, the Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister questioned why the central agency's help was not being sought to probe the accident.

Karnataka LIVE: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa won the floor test in the Karnataka assembly today, thus retaining his position, even as his Congress leader Siddaramaih said it was not the people’s mandate.

Taking to Twitter, Vadra said the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government was busy hiding incidents, even as crime was being committed unabated in Uttar Pradesh.

When the bill was tabled before the Lok Sabha, last week, the JD(U) had staged a walkout after the party's leader in the House Rajiv Ranjan Singh made an impassioned speech about the need for awareness in place of laws to banish retrograde customs.

Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar on Suday disqualified all 17 rebel Congress-JDS MLAs from the legislature till the term of the current Assembly expires.

Geetha Gopi has filed a complaint with police alleging caste discrimination by the Congress workers and said she will file a complaint with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan too.

Vijayvargiya said It is not BJP's wish to make a government fall, but the Congress and its governments are falling "due to their own works".

Citing a medical report from a private hospital, the police have claimed that the MLA had suffered no "bony injuries" in the incident.

Barely four days after losing power, the JD(S) legislators were a divided lot over their next course of action. While some JD(S) lawmakers suggested that the party sit in the opposition, others wished that it extends support to the BJP.

The BJP is yet to take an official call on the fate of the two rebels, but sources claim that the party, given the critical number game in the Assembly, is planning to let them off the hook for now.

A senior party leader claimed that Ahir, who was the chief of the NCP's Mumbai unit, wanted to join the BJP but that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had redirected him to the Shiv Sena.

HD Kumaraswamy in a scathing statement aimed at the BJP said that it doesn't matter whether the government focuses on development activities or by-elections in 20 to 25 places as no government will remain stable in the present circumstances.

According to state BJP leaders, the high command is treading cautiously because of the disqualification petition of 15 rebel Congress and JDS MLAs pending before Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar.