Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Friday emphasized the critical need for conserving petroleum products and urged the citizens to adopt fuel-saving practices to reduce the nation's dependence on imports and conserve valuable foreign exchange.
Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee today said that the winter session of the state Assembly would begin on 25 November and would continue for 10-11 days. This was decided following consultation with the chief minister, said the Speaker.
Opposition members of Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Waqf Amendment Bill, 2024 on Tuesday wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla over "gross violation" of parliamentary code of conduct during the committee’s meeting on Monday.
A delegation of BJP MLAs led by Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta met Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Friday and submitted a letter to him demanding the extension of the upcoming Assembly session to seven days from two days.
The Speaker had been sitting on the defection petitions against dissident MLAs, Danam Nagender, Kadiyam Srihari and Venkata Rao Tellam submitted to him prompting the BRS to seek intervention of the High Court on the issue.
As the proceedings of the Zero Hour began on Friday, the LoP raised the issue of uproar while replying to demands made for grants on Thursday and the conduct of the ministers.
The AAP further alleged that wherever BJP is in power, those states provide the most expensive electricity in the country.
Biman Bandyopadhyay, Speaker of the state Assembly, on Friday administered the oath to the two newly-elected Trinamul Congress MLAs Sanyantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar.
The three MLAs, along with six Congress rebel MLAs, had voted in favour of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan for the Rajya Sabha elections held on February 27.
The anti-terror cell of Delhi police is investigating the incident.
