"The Finance Minister (Nirmala Sitharaman) avoided speaking on West Bengal as she knew that she would be challenged," Roy told reporters. "We walked out in protest, and the Congress and the Samajwadi Party also did the same. The Union Finance Minister is repeatedly misleading the House on
TMC MP Sagarika Ghose on Monday said that Central Government's draft bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) is an "insult" to Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindra Nath Tagore and West Bengal.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday strongly opposed the Union government's decision to rename the MGNREGA, saying that the bill seeks to "undermine the very foundational objectives" of the employment guarantee scheme.
The former Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, inaugrated the statue of the late legendary singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam to pay tribute to his legacy at Ravindra Bharathi in Hyderabad.
The Opposition MPs have demanded the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 'Atomic Energy Bill', and the VB-G RAM G Bill to Standing Committees, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said on Monday.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday called the Central Government's draft bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) "unfortunate", saying that the concept of Gram Swaraj and the ideal of Ram Rajya were never competing forces.
BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday welcomed the appointment of Bihar Minister Nitin Nabin as the Bharatiya Janata Party's National Working President, calling it a moment of pride for the party workers across the country and a reflection of the BJP's organisational ethos.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday extended greetings to Sanjay Saraogi on being appointed as the Bihar state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Sanjay Saraogi, a six-time legislator from Darbhanga, has been appointed as the new Bihar state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with immediate effect.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday criticised Bharatiya Janata Party over introducing a bill to replace Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA), alleging that the central government's move is motivated to "claim other's work as its own."