The Supreme Court on Friday extended the time till January 10 for Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to pronounce a verdict on disqualification petitions against MLAs including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
The proposal of renaming the Mysuru airport after Tipu Sultan, a Muslim ruler, by Congress MLA Prasad Abbayya has drawn sharp criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs in the Karnataka Assembly.
"All the MLAs passed a resolution unanimously regarding choosing the Leader of Opposition in the state and left it to the party High Command to decide. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will decide the leader of opposition of the state," Surjewala said.
BJP MLAs staged a protest against Karnataka Minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan on Monday for his reported statement that only the Congress can make a Muslim the speaker of an assembly.
All BJP MLAs have been called to Jaipur at 11:00 am, and the registration of MLAs will take place before the meeting. One-to-one interactions with party-appointed observers will follow.
JD(S) leader and Karnataka's former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy come with a shocking claim that a prominent Congress minister along with 50-60 MLAs is considering joining the BJP to escape the legal troubles initiated by the Central agencies.
Reacting to Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge's comment suggesting the removal of the portrait of India's freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar from the state Assembly building, BJP MLAs held a protest and raised slogans on the stairs of Vidhan Bhavan, Nagpur on Thursday.
Amidst suspense over the chief ministerial pick in Rajasthan post the victory registered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the father of MLA Lalit Meena claimed that the newly elected legislator from Kishanganj had been confined in resort alongwith four others by Vasundhara Raje's son
The Karnataka Assembly on Wednesday witnessed tumultuous scenes as BJP MLAs staged a protest on the third day of the ongoing Winter Session, demanding a response from the Home Minister in connection with an alleged attack on a party MLA's assistant and a party worker in the Belagavi distr