"Ravi Shankar Prasad is in the mood to score more marks to get a ministerial berth. BJP is talking about the voice of people which they are throttling every now and then. Does BJP believe in cooperative federalism?..," said Sen.
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"But this Sengol was kept on display as a walking stick in Anand Bhawan, Prayagraj. Your 'sevak' and our Govt have brought the Sengol out of Anand Bhawan..." said the Prime Minister
Yechury has said, "Parliament is a composite unit, headed by the President of India. The PM is only a leader of the Govt...In all rightness, respecting the Constitution of India, the President of India must inaugurate the new Parliament Building..,"
Meanwhile the NCP Supremo said,"I have been a Member of Parliament for years. We used to sit in the House but we got to know about the construction of the new Parliament building through newspapers. While taking such an important decision, the Members should have been spoken to, but that didn't happen".
The actor has said that "It is not enough to just write ‘true story’ in the logo, it really has to be true" in reference to the controversial film.
An INTUC Sevadal activist dressed as President Droupadi Murmu with others participates in a protest march against the Central Government over new Parliament building inauguration issue, in Kolkata
"Minister Birbaha Hansda's car was attacked by the Kurmi community yesterday. I believe BJP did this in the name of Kurmi community, raised slogans and attacked Birbaha Hansda's car. Kurmi community never does this," said Banerjee from a rally inPaschim Medinipur.
The Aam Admi Party has dissolved its organisational structure in Goa with immediate effect, with its national general secretary Sandeep Pathak announcing that the new organisational structure will be announced soon.
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The AIADMK general secretary has writter a letter to the Prime Minister expressing his"gratitude on behalf of people of Tamil Nadu for installing the historic golden #Sengol near the Speaker's seat elucidating the Tamil pride, legacy & cultural heritage..."
Banerjee was speaking at a rally in West Bengal's Medinipur.
"This moment of national pride has become politically divisive. I ask my Prime Minister one simple question; “Please tell the country, why the President of India should not attend the inauguration of our new Parliament?” I see no reason why the President of India as Head of the State should not be part of this historic occasion," said the veteran actor and politician.
The Telengana CM further said that the BJP always shouts about the "black days" of Emergency, but they are provinfg to be no different now. This is not the "Achchhe Din" that Modi had promised, he further added. "You are not letting an elected government function. Not following the Supreme Court judgement means you are headed towards Emergency only. If you carry on like this, the country will teach you a lesson, like they did in Karnataka" he said.
The Delhi CM has thanked his Telengana counterpart for lending him support and said that this was not "just about Delhi, but about saving the democracy of the nation."
In an interview with ANI, Lekhi claimed that the budget for the same during the Congress rule was Rs 3,500 crores while the BJP government has completed the project within Rs 300 crores. She also claimed that this makes it clear the Cong government wanted to make it "it a big means of corruption".
"The controversy is that the Congress Govt hid that fact from the nation that when you talk about independence and the Tryst with Destiny speech of Pt Nehru, we never learnt anywhere in our school that there was a ceremony where a Sengol was handed over to Jawaharlal Nehru as a symbol of righteousness and just rule in a pooja overseen by C Rajagopalachari...This is erased out of history..." said the Union Minister of State.
"...What are they afraid of in participating in a discussion about the future of our country? Are they worried that the future of our country's discussion means they will have nothing to contribute?..." the Union Minister of State has said.
Amid the ongoing row over the inauguration of the new Parliament building by PM Modi, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Saturday called the Opposition boycott of the event "petty politics" born out of "desperation" and "frustration".
Amid the ongoing tussle between the AAP-led Delhi govt and the Centre, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, along with Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and other AAP leaders, met Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao in Hyderabad to seek support.
With the Congress-led government ordering to cancel all the recruitments carried out on contract basis by the previous BJP-led government in Karnataka, widow of Praveen Nettaru who was hired on compassionate ground too has lost her job.
Congress leaders N Chaluvarayaswamy, K Venkatesh, Dr H C Mahadevappa, andEshwar Khandre take oath as Karnataka ministers as induction ceremony continues.
24 MLAs will be inducted into the Karnataka Cabinet as ministers on Saturday. The induction ceremony is slated to begin at 11.45 am.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that he doesn't see the need for a new Parliament building, and added that he would be skipping both the NITI Aayog meet today and the Parliament inauguration tomorrow.
Senior Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on Friday to mark the occasion of his death anniversary.
Congress leader Rudrappa Lamani's supporters on Saturdaystaged a protest outside KarnatakaPradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office demanding a ministerial post for the leader, ahead of the induction of ministers into the Karnataka Cabinet.
"Our banjara community leader Rudrappa Lamani's name was there on the list till last night, but today we saw that his name was not there on the list. If our leader will not get the Ministerial post, we will protest against this because we gave our 75 per centvote to Congress in the election, so there should be at least one leader from our community," a supporter was quoted as saying.
Lamani won the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections from the Haveri constituency. (ANI)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit Khadikul village in Purba Medinipur district on Saturday to speak to the family members of those killed in a blast at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit, besides taking stock of the situation, a senior official said.
After her visit, the Trinamool Congress supremo will attend the party's mass outreach programme 'Trinamool-e naba-jowar' (new wave in Trinamool) at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district, where party MP Abhishek Banerjee will also be present, he added. (PTI)
With Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal looking for the support of the Congress in his government's tussle against the Centre, the Delhi unit of the grand old party on Saturday said that the party high command would decide whether to entertain Kejriwal.
"Congress high command will take a decision on whether they will meet Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal or not. When all opposition parties were together, he kept praising BJP, Arvind Kejriwal should realise his mistake," saidDelhi Congress President Anil Chaudhary.
The Congress on Friday said that it is still considering Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal's request for an appointment with Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi to seek support over the Centre's ordinance to negate the Supreme Court judgement placing 'services' under the control of the state government in the national capital. (IANS)
Hours after the BJP alleged that files were stolen from Special Secretary, Vigilance, YVVJ Rajasekhar's office at the secretariat building, the Delhi government on Friday said it will file a defamation case against the leaders of the saffron party and officers for "lying blatantly".