After the Himachal Assembly passed a bill to revoke the pension of defected MLAs, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu said that bill was essential to be introduced to strengthen democracy.
This amendment has significant consequences for six Congress MLAs who were disqualified on February 28 for violating the party whip in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
Jindal who defected from the Congress to BJP in March, had earlier represented the Kurukshetra parliamentary constituency from 2004-2014. However, he lost to BJP's Raj Kumar Saini in the 2014 national elections and was not fielded by the Congress in 2019.
Levelling allegations against former Congress leader Sudhir Sharma, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday said that Sharma is not only the leader of the defected MLAs but also a land mafia.
Kuzminov, who defected from Russia to Ukraine, committed an act deemed unforgivable by Russian President Vladimir Putin: treachery. Last summer, he flew his Mi-8 military helicopter into Ukrainian territory, delivering the aircraft and a cache of secret documents to Ukrainian intelligence op
The Speaker of Himachal Pradesh Assembly Kuldeep Singh Pathania likely to pronounce the order on the future of six defected Congress MLAs on Thursday who cross voted in the Rajya Sabha polls.
Patil said, "We have sent a petition to the Assembly speaker last night. We requested him to hear us. Our party's strength in the Assembly is 53, of which 9 have defected, the rest all are with us. We will give them a fair chance to come back but will take action against those who do not
K Sudhakar, who had defected to BJP in 2019 also alleged that when the miffed MLAs, including him had approached Siddaramaiah to complain about the injustice to them in the JD(S)-Congress coalition government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, the senior Congress leader had only fanne
Several leaders defected from their respective parties ahead of the Karnataka Assembly polls over 'ticket denial' and jumped to the other side on the perception of a big win. However, some faced defeat while others turned the tide in their favour.
After prominent Lingayat leader and former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined Congress ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections, Congress general secretary in-charge communication Jairam Ramesh on Monday took a swipe at
After prominent Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress ahead of the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said the former Karnataka chief minister would be used and later thrown out by C