Earlier on Tuesday, Bharti wrote to PM Modi over the tabling of the women's reservation Bill, demanding that of the 33-per cent reservation assured for women in the legislative bodies, 50 per cent should be set aside for ST, SC and OBC communities.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, in his letter to OMm Birla on Saturday, said that the inquiry committee should look into “the extent of culpability” of MPs who “instigate other citizens” with their comments in the House.
The Congress voiced fresh misgivings over the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), with its Lok Sabha member Manish Tewari saying on Saturday that votes in the general elections next year should be cast via paper ballots. He said the exercise that defines the country's democratic charac
Speaking to ANI, Sumitra Mohapatra, president of All Odisha Anganwadi Ladies Workers Association said that the Anganwadi workers are demanding government employee status to all Anganwadi workers, monthly remuneration of Rs 18,000 for Anganwadi workers and Rs 9,000 for their assistants.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Congress, Kanimozhi from DMK, Supriya Sule from NCP and Aparupa Poddar from TMC said that action should be taken against Bidhuri for his unparliamentary remarks against BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali in the Lok Sabha a day earlier.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav hit out at the centre on Friday, questioning the date of implementation of the Women's Reservation Bill and raising the demand to include OBC women and women from minority and backward communities in the bill.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the Women’s Reservation Bill is a “distraction tactic” by the BJP-led government to take away the attention of people from demands such as caste census and said nobody knows when the legislation will be implemented.
Reiterating India’s demand for expansion of the United Nations Security Council, Ministry of External Affairs, Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma said that the ‘architecture’ of the global governance in 2025 for the future, cannot be written in ink from 1945.