The Leader of the Opposition in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and former Mayor, Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh, on Tuesday criticised the New Year feast organised by the Mayor, calling it a wasteful expenditure and an act of insensitivity.
Delhi BJP MLAs, under the leadership of Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta, staged a sit-in at Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel's office on Tuesday, demanding a special session of the Assembly to present the 14 Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) reports.
Adhikari's post claimed: "The PDS rice are re-milled (polished) and then sold in the open market and this illustrates how the multi-crore Ration Distribution scam is still going on despite the arrest of the former Food Minister and his aides."
Expressing anguish over the no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against him in the Rajya Sabha recently, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said the notice was not even a vegetable-cutting knife and was rusted.
With the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) having an edge over Opposition parties, voting got underway on Saturday for Punjab’s five municipal corporations, 44 municipal councils, and various nagar panchayats.
Mr Yadav, whom the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee likes for his hardcore anti-BJP stance could not reject Didi’s invitation to attend her rally, according to Trinamul Congress sources.
Opposition leaders were up in arms over a directive by Muzaffarnagar police asking all the roadside eateries on the Kanwar yatra route to write the names of the shop owners in front of their outlets.
West Bengal is headed for an eventful day on July 21 as Trinamool Congress will observe it as ‘Martyrs’ Day’ while the BJP has said they will observe the day as ‘Democracy Slaughter Day’.
Gandhi expressed that he was "deeply concerned" by the assassination attempt on the former US President and emphasised that such acts must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
The Congress-led UDF opposition on Tuesday walked out of the Kerala Assembly, accusing the LDF government of trying to protect the CPI-M leaders in Kozhikode allegedly involved in the PSC membership-for-cash scam.
