Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have failed to transact any significant business, except passage of some bills, amid continued protests by Opposition parties over the Pegasus since the Monsoon session of Parliament commenced on July 19.
Addressing the media in Delhi, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that in 2024 “poore desh me khela hobe” (game will be on all over the country), even as she has been meeting and holding discussions with several Opposition leaders during her five-day visit to the national capital.
It only got better when the chairman of the committee, Shashi Tharoor, said that no such meeting was held in first place. BJP leaders on Wednesday boycotted the IT committee meeting and refused to sign the attendance register.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday evening met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi at 10, Janpath. Former party president and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi was also present during the meeting here.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is making her bid to unite the Opposition against the BJP ahead of the 2024 general elections.
Reacting to his nomination, Sircar said that he was a bureaucrat and not a political person but would work for the development of the people and raise the issues concerning the masses in Parliament.
Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah said that he was deeply distressed by the course of events in House yesterday.
Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Blasting at lawmakers of the Mamata Banerjee's party, Meenakshi Lekhi said the behaviour of TMC MPs was shameful. The issue of 'Pegasus spyware scandal' is fake news.
TMC MPs on Thursday tore papers and flung them into the air, throwing the Rajya Sabha into bedlam as IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw read a statement on the alleged snooping using Pegasus.
Lashing out at the Bengal government, Suvendu Adhikari said, "the post-poll violence in West Bengal has left behind the Calcutta killings, and the Noakhali (in Bangladesh now) riots of 1946, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The more the inaction of government machinery during the post-poll violence is criticized, the less it is."
The Pegasus snooping controversy rocked the Lok Sabha proceedings on Tuesday, leading to continued disruptions and repeated adjournments of the House. Soon after the House assembled at 3 pm, the opposition members again started raising slogans on the Pegasus snooping issue, forcing the chair to adjourn the House for the day. Several members carried placards and sought the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The House will now meet on July 22.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will stage a sit-in protest across West Bengal rising fuel prices in the country on July 10 and 11.
Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee, the son of former president Pranab Mukherjee, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata on Monday. He was inducted into the party at a press conference in the city in the presence of senior TMC leaders.
A committee constituted by the NHRC had on Wednesday submitted a report before the High Court on cases of alleged human rights violations in post-poll violence in West Bengal.
Uttar Pradesh's Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, while speaking to ANI expressed his concern over the NHRC attack on West Bengal and slams over the lawless conditions of state, adding on this he said, "West Bengal has no law and order, only Trinamool Congress goons can rules the state.
A fake Covid vaccination drive for transgenders, specially-abled persons was busted in Kolkata, says Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mimi Chakraborty. The accused who was running the drive has been arrested. "I was approached by a man who introduced himself as an IAS officer and said he was running a special drive for transgenders & specially-abled persons and requested for my presence," Mimi Chakraborty said.
Recently, six BJP workers shaved off their hair when they swapped party flags in Hooghly.
Nusrat Jahan, who is dating actor-politician Yash Dasgupta in recent times, had earlier said that her marriage is invalid in India.
Apart from Mamata Banerjee's high-profile election petition against BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, four other election petitions of TMC candidates who lost to BJP candidates in the recent Assembly elections were heard by Calcutta High Court on Friday.
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