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 …
The Eknath Shinde faction has issued a petition to Maharashtra speaker Rahul Narwekar to suspend 16 MLAs of the Uddhav Thackeray side who defied the whip to support the government The Uddhav Thackeray versus Eknath Shinde fight in Maharashtra is far from over. Bharat Gogawale, the new chief whip of the Shinde camp, said it was out of “respect” for …
Britain’s ruling Conservative party on Friday suspended one of its MPs pending an investigation into claims he watched pornography on his mobile phone in the House of Commons chamber. “Having spoken to the Chief Whip this afternoon, Neil Parish MP is reporting himself to the Standards Committee of the House of Commons,” said a spokeswoman for Chief Whip Chris Heaton-Harris, …
“They brought rubber whips to tie my hands, laid me on my stomach, and beat my buttocks till I bled,” says Bilal, a gay man from Afghanistan. One evening in October 2021, Bilal was staying with a group of friends when armed Taliban members broke into the “safe house”. The Taliban locked them up in a bathroom and left them …