HYDERABAD: As the Assembly session is in progress, speculation is rife on whether the Congress will announce its nominees for the posts of Deputy Speaker, chief whip and whips in the House. Sources said that some MLAs, who are aware that their chances of making it to the Cabinet in the speculated expansion are slim, are eyeing the deputy speaker …
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Budget session of Parliament, the Congress on Sunday appointed Gaurav Gogoi as the deputy leader in Lok Sabha, senior Congress MP Kodikunnil Suresh as the chief whip, and Virudhunagar MP Manickam Tagore and Kishanganj MP Mohammad Jawed as whips in the lower House. Announcing the decision, AICC general secretary KC Venugopal said on X that …
The Aam Aadmi Party issued a three-line whip to its Rajya Sabha members, asking them to be present in the House on August 7 and 8. This comes as the contentious Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Bill, which seeks to replace the ordinance promulgated in May after the Supreme Court granted control of Delhi's bureaucracy to the elected …
Amid the ongoing battle between two Shiv Sena factions led by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and former CM Uddhav Thackeray, both sides issued separate whips to the party legislators to vote in favour of their respective candidates during the state assembly speaker’s election on Sunday. After the new speaker’s announcement, Zirwal informed the house that he had received a …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan police late on Tuesday arrested the brother of deputy chief whip in the state assembly and Congress leader, Mahendra Choudhary, and four others in the alleged murder of a trader in Nagaur on Saturday, said police on Wednesday, ending the deadlock over the post mortem and other formalities. The police have found that it was Moti Singh …