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Parliamentary Affairs minister convenes all-party meeting on Jan 31 ahead of Budget 2022

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi has convened an all-party meeting on January 31, which will be held virtually, ahead of the Budget on February 1.

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RPN Singh quits Congress: Personal jolt to Priyanka, Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: All India Congress Committee (AICC) leader in-charge of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, Kunwar Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh, popularly known as RPN, quit the party, dealing a personal blow to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. He joined the BJP shortly after he tendered his resignation to Congress interim president…

The Times of India

UP assembly election: What connects Yogi Adityanath and Akhilesh Yadav

NEW DELHI: After a long spell of uncertainty, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav’s candidature was announced on Monday by the party for contesting the upcoming Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly election. UP chief minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath’s name was already declared by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on January 15.…

The Times of India

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Houses of Parliament to work in shifts

Rajya Sabha to meet till 3 p.m., Lok Sabha from 4-9 p.m.

The Hindu

Decoding the 2022 elections and the script for 2024

It would be wise not to make judgments about the outcome of the general election based on the Assembly poll results

The Hindu

West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee has become lawless: BJP

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Sunday slammed the Mamata Banerjee government after its Lok Sabha member from Barrackpore Arjun Singh was allegedly attacked by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers in Kankinara.

The Times of India

Why pick seat based on caste: Yogi to Akhilesh

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath launched a counter-attack on SP chief Akhilesh Yadav for questioning the former’s candidature from a “safe” seat, saying that the Gorakhpur constituency, which BJP has chosen for him to make his debut in the assembly polls, was not one which reflected the “dynastic and caste-based…

The Times of India

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Lok Sabha privileges panel summons Telangana chief secretary, DGP over Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s complaint

HYDERABAD: Lok Sabha Committee of Privileges has served notices to Telangana chief secretary Somesh Kumar, director general of police M Mahender Reddy and four other police officials in connection with the breach of privileges complaint lodged by BJP MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar.

The Times of India

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to contest from Karhal

It falls under the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, a Yadav family bastion

The Hindu

Lok Sabha Privileges Committee summons Telangana Chief Secretary, DGP, five others

Karimnagar MP and BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar had approached the committee over the way he was arrested on January 2.

The Hindu

Telangana: Bandi Sanjay appears before Lok Sabha privilege panel

HYDERABAD: Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay appeared before the Lok Sabha committee of privileges complained against his illegal arrests by the police in Telangana, the last being earlier this when he was jailed after arrest.

The Times of India

Bhagwant Mann to be AAP's CM candidate for Punjab Assembly polls

AAP had last week released a phone number asking people to give names of their preferred Chief Ministerial candidate for the party in Punjab. The AAP has said that it received nearly 22 lakh responses on the number. Full report

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5 reasons why BJP fielded Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur for UP assembly election

NEW DELHI: Laying all speculations to rest about Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s likelihood of contesting the upcoming assembly election from the holy cities of Ayodhya or Mathura, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on January 15 declared his candidature from Gorakhpur.

The Times of India

‘Modi for nation, Kejriwal for Delhi’: What Purvanchalis are thinking ahead of the election

As the Delhi Assembly election campaign gathers pace, all main players are out wooing one of the city’s most influential voter communities — the Purvanchalis.

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#ElectoralBonds: 99% of the purchases are of ₹1 crore & ₹10 lakh denomination, and most took place in Mumbai

The central government notified the Electoral Bonds scheme on January 2, 2018, after the announcement the during 2017-18 budget. One of the main reasons cited for the introduction of the electoral bond scheme was to control unaccounted money flowing into the political system and to improve financial transparency.

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#Phase3: Voting begins in 117 seats across 13 states and 2 UTs

One hundred and seventeen Lok Sabha seats across 13 states and two Union Territories are going to polls in the third phase of the 2019 General Elections. In the first two phases, polling was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18.

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Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala’s new book chronicles change and continuity in India’s electoral scene

There is an inescapable lure of nostalgia when reflecting on elections with someone who, over the last 40 years, has almost become a national habit as India tracked, dissected and predicted poll results. In doing all this, Prannoy Roy has worn his scholarship lightly in TV studios. No mean feat…

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Why must the BJP government repeat the worst behaviour of previous governments?

Read Part 1 on how the Modi government systematically made Parliament irrelevant. And then Part 2 on how the Modi government has started an era of Ordinance Raj and avoided proving its legitimacy in Parliament.

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How the Modi Government systematically made Parliament irrelevant

It was May 20, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party having won 282 seats in Lok Sabha, Narendra Damodardas Modi was unequivocally elected as the Prime Minister of India. He got out of a vehicle at the main entrance of Parliament and got down on his knees to touch his head…

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Chandrababu Naidu’s saga of political flip-flops

Nara Chandrababu Naidu, supremo of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has done it again. His political heel is flexible enough that it can rotate 360 degrees. His political ideology is malleable and ductile. It takes the shape of the container, at his will.

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Lesson from #KarnatakaVerdict: Congress should shake hands with BSP

Exactly 15 years ago, in the summer of 2003, LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee tried to persuade Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to join a national pre-poll alliance with the BJP in return for support to her in a hung UP Assembly.

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What you should expect from political reporting in 2018

In ways that the Indian media has made quite safe to foresee, 2018 is set to be a predictable year for political stories. What would become clear in the coming months is that 2018 wouldn’t be about 2018; it would definitely be about 2019.

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