The Bilaspur police have arrested two more accused involved in the firing incident on former Congress MLA Bamber Thakur from Haryana's Jhajjar, officials said on Thursday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expelled Karnataka MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal from the party for six years over repeated violations of party discipline, according to a letter issued by the party's Central Disciplinary Committee.
BJP MLA from Shakur Basti, Karnail Singh on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Delhi Police Commissioner requesting to "prevent the inconvenience caused by the offering of namaz at public places."
Speaking to ANI, Patra said, "We strongly condemn it, and it shows how democracy is being murdered in Odisha. The Odisha Police has become the handmaiden of the Odisha government and the Odisha Vidhan Sabha and are stopping not only the Odisha BJD and Congress MLAs from entering the Odish
The Congress leaders were protesting in the House on the alleged atrocities of MLAs, during which they spent the night in the premises of the House. The party also alleged that their leaders were beaten up while being removed from the Assembly premises.
BRS MLC K Kavitha accused Congress of ignoring its promise to provide 10 grams of gold and Rs 1 lakh to young women under the Kalyana Lakshmi Scheme. She urged Sonia Gandhi to intervene and ensure the pledge was fulfilled in Telangana.
The suspended Congress MLAs had spent the night in the Odisha Assembly on March 25, demanding the formation of a House Committee on the alleged atrocities on women. However, after some time, officials removed the protesters from the assembly premises, prompting the sit-in protest to conti
The Congress workers continued to protest outside the Congress Bhawan in Bhubaneswar against the Odisha assembly speaker Surama Padhy's decision to suspend 12 Congress MLAs for protesting in the well.
Congress protested against the suspension of 12 MLAs from the Odisha Legislative Assembly in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. The protest organised by Youth Congress was joined by state president Bhakta Charan Das and Odisha in-charge Ajay Kumar Lallu.
Odisha legislative assembly speaker Surama Padhy suspended 12 Congress MLAs on the charges of "indiscipline, disrespecting the Chair and violating rules" as they protested inside the well of the assembly.