The Supreme Court has said that legislators should be respectful even while dissenting, as it fixed for final hearing a plea challenging the expulsion of Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Sunil Kumar Singh from the Bihar Legislative Council for his remarks against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. "Legislators should be respectful even while dissenting," the bench observed after senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, …
Mumbai: In yet another setback to the Congress in Maharashtra ahead of the Lok Sabha election, former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique on Thursday announced his resignation from the primary membership of the Congress. In a post on X social media, Mr. Siddhique said, “I joined the Indian National Congress party as a young teenager and it has been a significant …
Whether anyone likes it or not, the fact is that the BJP is a single-pillar structure. As a political commentator put it aptly, Mr Modi’s strategy is of “eloquence” on certain issues and “silence” in some others. Being the “single pillar” of the world’s largest party, Mr Modi is accorded kid glove treatment in most of the media, especially the …
Congress president Sonia Gandhi — who will soon cease to hold that post — has a humongous problem facing her in the next few days: to axe or not to axe Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot in the wake of the unprecedented rebellion by party MLAs in Jaipur in the last few weeks. Mr Gehlot, 71, had brought to the …
It has finally happened. The Cabinet expansion in Maharashtra, which has taken place on Tuesday, August 9, 40 days after the installation of the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government, is a reminder that the BJP and the splinter group of the Shiv Sena are virtually walking in a minefield. Atul Save, whose father was a former Shiv Sena MP, is among …
