Voting for the by-elections for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and six assembly seats in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh began today at 7 am.
Voting for by-elections for Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh and six assembly seats in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh is underway.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge presided over the meeting, and the Committee unanimously resolved that the 85th Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress will be held at Raipur in the second half of February 2023.
"I'm totally in favour of the Bill, I thank opposition parties also for backing the decision to raise the quota for backward classes from 58 to 75. I will approve the Bill by Monday," Uikey said.
A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Leader of Opposition Narayan Chandel has slammed the state government over the reservation bill and organising a special assembly session in the state on December 1 and 2.
The Chhattisgarh assembly on Friday unanimously passed two amendment bills hiking reservation in admissions and government jobs in the state for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Scheduled Caste (SC) communities, in line with the proportion of their populations.
Managing director of Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (RRVUNL), RK Sharma, on Friday flagged concerns over dwindling coal stocks in Rajasthan which aren't enough to run its 4320 MW thermal power project in Rajasthan.
Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's Deputy Secretary Saumya Chaurasia in connection with an illegal mining case.
The altercation occurred when Ajay Chandrakar and Brijmohan Agarwal were making statements in the assembly and Dahariya and other Congress MLAs passed remarks.