Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Rajya Sabha MP Turchi Siva on Wednesday slammed the ruling party, accusing it of undermining democracy in Parliament, claiming that opposition voices are being silenced and that the ruling party is being supported by the Rajya Sabha Chair, which he described a
Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday emphasized the importance of maintaining parliamentary proceedings, despite any issues that may arise.
"Whatever is being said about EVMs (by the opposition), I'll say that such statements against the functioning of constitutional institutions create doubt about parliamentary democracy," Narwekar said.
"Kalyan Banerjee is a member of JPC (on Waqf Amendment Bill) and he should keep his views before the JPC and not give statements outside. If the government there in West Bengal is bringing a resolution against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, then it is an attack on the parliamentary democracy
This follows Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Yadav's remarks that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre, which came to power last month, could fall by August and elections can happen anytime.
In a letter written to Secretary High-Level Committee, One Nation, One Election Niten Chandra on January 18, AAP National Secretary Pankaj Gupta said that with the implementation of the ONOE, the party ruling at the Union level gains an unfair advantage over regional parties and other par
A day after ruling that the Eknath Shinde faction was the 'real' Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday said that his decision was important to strengthen the parliamentary democracy.
"It's appropriate to protest and all of us will be at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The INDIA alliance protest will happen everywhere tomorrow (Friday) morning in all the states because we want to show the public that if they'd run Parliament like this and won't listen to the opposition then th
Hitting out at the Centre over the bulk suspension of opposition MPs from Parliament, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said that the moment has come to start writing 'obituaries for the Parliamentary democracy' in our country.
On the first day of the summit itself, the joint declaration for the 9th G20 Parliamentary Speakers' Summit (P20) was adopted with consensus to engage in parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue in relevant fora as a catalyst for promoting international peace.
"This day has been immortalized forever in Indian parliamentary democracy. While today the inauguration of the new Parliament House has taken place, today in the Lok Sabha," Rajnath Singh said.
Earlier today Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the new Parliament building to the nation by unveiling a plaque and installing the 'Sengol' in the Lok Sabha chamber