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‘Sui patak sannatta’: BJP questions opposition’s silence over Bengal assault video | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal over a video of a man brutally assaulting a couple in public and accused the opposition for its silence over this incident.Targeting Mamata Banerjee, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said, "In North Dinajpur, there is a TMC leader named Tajmul aka JCB who does not have faith in the Constitution of India.At Mamata Banerjee's behest, he claims they will deliver swift justice in Taliban style.""Mamata Banerjee's faith is no longer in the Constitution; she has given free rein to her party's goons to impose Sharia law, resembling Taliban rule," he added.Bhatia also questioned the INDIA bloc and mocked its leaders for their silence over the issue."Do the opposition parties standing...
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Video | Lok Sabha Speaker Election: OM Birla की अध्यक्षता में संसद भवन में कई नई पहल | PM Modi |Rahul Gandhi

  18th Lok Sabha News: 18 वीं लोक सभा के पहले सत्र का तीसरा दिन। ओम बिरला की दूसरी पारी का आगाज। दशकों बाद चुनाव की नौबत आई। लेकिन विपक्ष ने वोटिंग पर जोर नहीं दिया। एक ऐतिहासिक अवसर जिसका जिक्र खुद पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी ने किया। Source link
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Om Birla beats Oppn’s K Suresh in rare election for LS Speaker, suspense remains over Dy Speaker post

New Delhi: NDA nominee Om Birla was re-elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha by voice vote Wednesday. He defeated the Congress’s Kodikunnil Suresh, fielded as the Opposition’s candidate, in what was the fourth instance of an election for the post since Independence. The motion to appoint Birla, moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was adopted through voice vote with the Opposition not pressing for division of votes, but making it a point to register their dissent over the government’s non-committal approach to their demand for the deputy Speaker’s post. The rare event of an election for the Speaker’s post was necessitated due to a lack of agreement between the treasury and the opposition benches, which insisted that there could be a consensus only if the government was ready to give the de...
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Video | Top News Of The Day: Government vs Opposition On Speaker, First Contest In Decades

The BJP's ruling coalition and the Congress' INDIA opposition bloc will go head-to-head Wednesday in a battle for the Lok Sabha Speaker's post - arguably one of the most important in a parliamentary democracy and to be held for the first time in decades - after the two failed to agree a division of seats. The Speaker and his/her deputy - the post fuelling disagreements between the two political giants - are usually elected by consensus, lack of which in this instance underlines the fractious BJP-Congress ties. Source link
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‘Congress’s Unilateral Decision’: TMC On K Suresh’s Nomination For Lok Sabha Speaker Post

Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that his party was not consulted by the Congress before nominating MP K Suresh as a candidate for the Lok Sabha Speaker's position, hinting at a possible rift in the I.N.D.I.A bloc. He said that it was Congress's "unilateral decision". "Congress did not discuss the Speaker issue and made a unilateral decision," the TMC MP said, commenting on the election of Suresh as opposition's candidate. Earlier today, the opposition INDIA bloc fielded Congress MP K Suresh against BJP's candidate OM Birla for the Speaker's position. Although the BJP-led NDA tried to bring the INDIA bloc leaders to consensus on Birla as the Speaker, the opposition alliance refused. Instead, they accused the ruling NDA of not fo...
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‘No one contacted us’: TMC says ‘not consulted’ as INDIA bloc fields K Suresh for Speaker post | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: As the INDIA bloc members united on Tuesday to field its candidate against the Modi government's candidate Om Birla, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said it was not consulted on the nomination of Congress's Kodikunnil Suresh for the post. In only the third time contest, the INDIA bloc has fielded K Suresh against the BJP's Om Birla for the Speaker election.TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, however, said his party was not consulted on fielding Kodikunnil Suresh as the INDIA bloc's joint nominee adding the party chief Mamata Banerjee will take a decision on backing Suresh. "No one contacted us. There have been no talks, unfortunately this has been a unilateral decision," Banerjee said.According to news agency PTI sources, the TMC has not signed the nomination papers of Suresh and may also...
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Lok Sabha Session: I.N.D.I.A Bloc Nominates K Suresh As Speaker Candidate Amid Deadlock

Lok Sabha Session: After the ruling NDA bloc announced Om Birla as its candidate for the post of speaker in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc on Tuesday nominated K Suresh for the post. He is an eight time MP from Kerala. This comes after the NDA and I.N.D.I.A bloc failed to reach a consensus on Speaker and Deputy Speaker posts. Suresh has filed his nomination. The election for the post of speaker in the Lower House is set to take place on Wednesday. With K Suresh's nomination for the post, it will be the first time that an election will be held for the speaker post in the Lower House. Earlier in the day, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominated Om Birla as its nominee for the post of Speaker for the 18th Lok Sabha. He will file his nominati...
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Giant-killer Akhilesh Yadav draws attention in 18th Lok Sabha

Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav being greeted by Congress MP K.C. Venugopal at the Parliament House complex on the first day of the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, on June 24, 2024. SP MPs Dimple Yadav, Ram Gopal Yadav and Awadhesh Prasad are also seen. | Photo Credit: PTI Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav was the centre of attention in the Lok Sabha on Monday as his party emerged as the giant-killer in Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) in the recent Lok Sabha election.With 37 MPs, the SP has become the third largest party in the Lok Sabha, after the BJP and the Congress. In U.P., the SP emerged as the single largest party, and together with the Congress, the INDIA bloc won 43 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats. This has been the best performance of the SP in the past two de...
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3 INDIA bloc MPs set to pull out of panel to assist pro-tem Speaker ahead of Parliament session

New Delhi: Three INDIA bloc MPs appointed by President Droupadi Murmu to assist pro-tem Speaker Bhartruhari Mahtab in administering oaths to the newly-elected Lok Sabha members are set to turn down the role. This will likely deepen the rift between the government and the Opposition ahead of the Parliament session.ThePrint has learnt that the Congress’s Kodikunnil Suresh, TMC’s Sudip Bandyopadhyay and DMK’s TR Baalu are the three MPs appointed by the President to assist Mahtab who are pulling out of the panel. The other members of the panel are BJP’s Radha Mohan Singh and Faggan Singh Kulaste. Show Full Article “All the three INDIA bloc MPs have pulled out,” a senior MP told ThePrint. The INDIA bloc has been aggressively opposing the government’s decision to...
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INDIA builds pressure on govt: Mamata asks PM to review criminal Bills | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, urging him to defer the implementation of the three “hurriedly passed” criminal laws -- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Sakhsya Adhiniyam and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 – as they were passed by “ignoring” dissent notes and more importantly by “unethically” expelling 146 members from both Houses.The implementation of the three laws is set to roll out from July 1.Banerjee’s letter is the first salvo from the INDIA bloc of opposition parties, fired at the newly formed Modi-led NDA government, in a coordinated effort to put the government under pressure right from the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha, with an increased bench-strength (234) as compared to the last Lo...
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The vagaries of equidistance in a polarised polity: Data

Voters wait in queues to cast their vote for the Lok Sabha polls. | Photo Credit: ANI Regional parties have been a significant presence in Indian polity for over three decades now. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, they could be classified into three types — one, parties that allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the National Democratic Alliance; two, parties that were part of the INDIA bloc and a distinctive third category. This category includes parties that were technically not part of the NDA, and had, in the recent past, endorsed controversial legislations introduced by the BJP or adopted ideological positions closer to that of the BJP.The first category includes parties such as the Shiv Sena (led by Eknath Shinde), Janata Dal (United), Telugu Desam Party, Janata Dal (Secular),...
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INDIA bloc delegation meets Manipur governor, CM over ongoing violence | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: 20 members of INDIA bloc, a delegation of 10 political parties, met Manipur governor Anusuiya Uikey on Wednesday, after visiting chief minister N Biren Singh in Imphal. They requested governmental measures to halt the ongoing violence in the state.The coalition of 10 parties included the Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee; Janata Dal (United), All India Forward Bloc, Nationalist Congress Party (SP), All India Trinamool Congress, Manipur Pradesh, Shiv Sena (UBT), Revolutionary Socialist Party, Manipur State Council, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Aam Aadmi Party.Manipur Congress president Keisham Meghachandra Singh said after meeting the governor, "We discussed the recent incident of Jiribam. The Governor was very serious about the matter. She...
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CPI to field candidate against Priyanka Gandhi in Wayanad LS seat – Times of India

T'PURAM: CPI will soon select a candidate to take on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Wayanad, party's Kerala state secretary Binoy Viswam said on Tuesday amid speculations over LDF's pick in the constituency.Viswam also took on the Congress, saying the party should not have deceived the people of Wayanad by keeping them unaware of the plan to field Rahul Gandhi from two seats in Lok Sabha elections."CPI is contesting to ensure that non-Congress votes do not go to BJP. If Left does not contest against Congress, these votes will go to BJP and this should be avoided,'' Viswam said, adding that while some have argued that CPI should stay away from the contest, he felt his party should not do anything that will aid BJP in Kerala.On Rahul contesting from both Wayanad and Rae Bareli, Viswam said peop...
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BJP ‘fatally wounded’, NDA govt ‘very fragile’, ‘smallest disturbance’ can dislodge it — Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is “very fragile” and the “smallest disturbance” can bring it down, Lok Sabha MP and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said, claiming that some people from the ruling alliance are in touch with the Opposition.In an interview to Financial Times, Gandhi claimed there was “great discontent” in the ruling side following the Lok Sabha elections, in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to secure a majority, as the Congress and other Opposition parties registered an upswing in numbers. Gandhi said that the poll results brought about a “tectonic shift” in Indian politics, leaving the BJP “fatally wounded”. “The space in the Indian political system has been blown open,” he told the newspaper headquartered in L...
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Video | Lok Sabha Speaker: लोकसभा स्पीकर पर सस्पेंस बरक़रार, NDA और INDIA में छिड़ा घमासान

18वीं लोकसभा का स्पीकर कौन होगा इसे लेकर सस्पेंस बना हुआ है. इस मुद्दे पर रक्षा मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह के घर पर एनडीए नेताओं की एक बैठक हुई उधर कांग्रेस विपक्ष की सहमति से स्पीकर चुनने पर ज़ोर दे रही है. साथ ही उसने डिप्टी स्पीकर का पद विपक्ष को देने की मांग रखी है. इस बीच शिवसेना यूबीटी ने कहा है कि अगर टीडीपी स्पीकर के पद के लिए उम्मीदवार खड़ा करती है तो इंडिया गठबंधन साथ देगा.  Source link ...
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No grounds to question BJP: Annamalai reacts to Stalin’s remarks over PM Modi’s Constitution gesture | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: A day after Tamil Nadu chief minister claimed that INDIA bloc's 'moral victory' in the Lok Sabha polls prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bow down to the Constitution, BJP's state president and firebrand leader K Annamalai on Sunday hit back , accusing the DMK of hypocrisy and "utter disregard for the Constitution," asserting that the DMK has no moral grounds to question the BJP and PM Modi regarding respect for the Constitution.The response from BJP's TN chief comes after INDIA bloc led by the DMK held a massive victory rally in Coimbatore on Saturday in a show of strength. K Annamalai who lost to DMK's Ganapathy Rajkumar in Coimbatore took to X and said, "In one such celebration yesterday, TN CM MK Stalin claimed "Moral Victory" over the BJP, like every other party in...
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INDIA bloc will try to ensure support for TDP if it contests LS speaker’s post: Raut – Times of India

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said all partners of the opposition INDIA bloc will try to ensure support for the ruling ally Telugu Desam Party (TDP) if it fields a candidate for the Lok Sabha speaker's election. Talking to reporters here, Raut claimed the Lok Sabha speaker's election will be crucial and if the BJP gets the post, it will break the government-supporting parties like the TDP, JD(U) and the political outfits of Chirag Paswan and Jayant Chaudhary."We have the experience that BJP betrays the people who support it," Raut claimed."I hear the TDP wants to field its candidate. If that happens, INDIA bloc partners will discuss the issue and will try to ensure that all the INDIA alliance partners extend support to the TDP," he said.The opposition should get t...
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Chidambaram says BJP, AIADMK fighting Tamil Nadu bypoll through ‘proxy’ | India News – Times of India

P Chidambaram (File photo) CHENNAI: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday alleged the BJP and AIADMK are fighting the July 10 Vikravandi bypoll through 'proxy' PMK and that the INDIA bloc must ensure a resounding victory of the DMK candidate. Hitting out at Tamil Nadu's main opposition AIADMK for boycotting the bypoll, Chidambaram, in a post on X, said: "AIADMK's decision to boycott the Vikravandi by-election is clear evidence that it has received instructions from the 'top' to facilitate the electoral chances of the NDA candidate (PMK).Both BJP and AIADMK are fighting the battle through a proxy (PMK). The I.N.D.I.A. bloc must ensure the resounding victory of the DMK candidate."Tamil Nadu's principal opposition party, AIADMK, on June 15 announced a boycott of the bypoll to the...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Election: I.N.D.I.A Bloc To Field Candidate, Likely To Step Back On This Cond

After the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections 2024, eyes are now set on who will become the Lok Sabha Speaker, the election for which is slated to be held on June 26. According to sources, the opposition I.N.D.I.A bloc might field its candidate for the Speaker's position.  However, if the position of the Deputy Speaker is given to the opposition, then the alliance is most likely to step back from the Lok Sabha Speaker post and will not field its candidate for it. This comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi took an oath for the third consecutive term and the National Democratic Alliance formed the government. JDU-TDP Pledge Support To BJP For Decision On Speaker Position Ever since the NDA government came into power, there have been speculations that the...
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Will INDIA bloc attend PM’s swearing-in event? Congress leader Jairam Ramesh replies | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Saturday said that the INDIA bloc will collectively take a call on attending the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minter Narendra Modi and his council of ministers which is scheduled for Sunday evening.After a key meeting of extended Congress Working Committee, party's general secretary K C Venugopal said, "The INDIA bloc will collectively take the decision on attending the ceremony."Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took a sharp jibe at PM Modi and the Bhartiya Janata Party and added that only international leaders have been invited for the swearing-in-ceremony and the opposition leaders are yet to receive invitations."Only international leaders have been invited for the swearing-in ceremony. Our leaders have not received the invitation yet. ...
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‘Rahul Gandhi Should Be Leader Of Opposition In Lok Sabha’: CWC Meeting Resolution Passed

Congress CWC Meet: The Congress Working Committee members passed the resolution on Saturday and unanimously urged former party chief Rahul Gandhi to take the role of leader of the party in the Lok Sabha. The CWC credited his two Bharat Jodo Yatras for the party's performance in the general elections. After the CWC meeting, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said that the resolution has been moved by all the leaders and chief ministers, and the name of the Leader of Opposition will be announced by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. "All Chief Minister and leaders have moved a resolution for LoP and the entire party has stood on the issue. The Congress President will announce the LoP" Shivakumar said. #WATCH | Delhi: After the CWC meet...
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Nitish Was Offered This Post In Government In Lieu Of His Support To INDIA: JD-U Claims

A day before the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar's JD(U) has made a startling claim. Party leader KC Tyagi on Saturday said that the top government post was up for Nitish Kumar's taking if he chose to join the INDIA bloc. Claiming that the INDIA bloc offered Nitish Kumar the Prime Minister's chair, KC Tyagi told ABP News that Nitish Kumar is not one to be swayed at this point and will stay with the BJP-led NDA. KC Tyagi said that the PM has sent a message to all those who questioned the election process and EVMs. "JDU and Chandrababu Naidu's TDP contested the elections as part of the NDA under PM Modi. We have extended our support to the leadership of PM Modi for the next 5 years," he said. #BREAKING | नीतीश कुमार...
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Modi is a majoritarian PM who has to work without a majority, RJD leader Manoj K. Jha 

The essential story of this election is that brand Modi with its “teflon coating” of invincibility has been shattered, says Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Manoj K. Jha. He says the NDA today is a coalition of contradictions. Excerpts: The INDIA bloc and, especially, the RJD fell short of the target it had set for itself in Bihar. What went wrong? We were expecting at least 20 seats. Our seat tally is below our expectations and we will introspect. If you look closely there are 8 to 10 seats that we lost by a margin of a few thousand votes. We need to compare the margin of our loss in 2024 with the 2019 data and therein lies the story. There may have been regional variations, there are certain regions where we have done extremely well and certain others where our per...
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SP to honour some defeated INDIA bloc candidates with ‘sammansad’ title: Akhilesh Yadav | India News – Times of India

LUCKNOW: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday accused the BJP of "administrative scams" in the Lok Sabha elections on some seats in UP and announced that the party will honour the defeated INDIA bloc candidates with the title of 'sammansad'.Reacting to the parliamentary election results, Yadav, in a post in Hindi on X, said, "We believe that all our candidates who could not win due to the BJP's administrative scams are actually winners.""The basis of whatever votes the BJP has received is not the votes of the people, but their administrative system and their scams."He said the people in the Lok Sabha constituencies have given their full support and respect to the candidates of the INDIA bloc.That is why all such candidates are being considered as true representatives of the people, he said...
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