The Winter Session of the Parliament began on Monday, a day after results for Assembly elections in four states were declared, with the BJP winning three (Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) and Congress ousting the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana.
As India completes 365 days of its G20 Presidency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a column, said that achieving the extraordinary, New Delhi revitalised multilateralism and amplified the Global South's voice.
Launching a blistering attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that the only aim of the latter is to ensure that Muslims and Dalits do not become political leaders.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav targeted the Yogi Adityanath-BJP-led government in Uttar Pradesh over issues of farmers, reservation and an alleged sorry state of affairs in the State Education Department as the four-day session of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature started today.
"If Mahatma Gandhi were alive today, he would have praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking forward the 'Swachhta Abhiyan'," Vice President Dhankhar said.
In an interview with ANI, the AIMIM chief said that there is empirical data on the social and educational backwardness of Muslims it is given after late PS Krishnan's report.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday asserted that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), Congress and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) are identical political entities as they have ideological alignment of advocating reservations for Muslims.
Heaping praise on the 'Nari Shakti Vandhan Adhiniyam', Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu said that women in India will now exercise greater legislative powers and play an even greater role in the development of the country.
Telangana Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA KT Rama Rao said the 4 per cent Muslim reservation in the state is not on the basis of religion but on the basis of socio-economic status in the community.
According to sources in the government of India, the Prime Minister also instructed the officials to expedite the committee formation for reservation to Madiga community.