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 Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha, Om Birla, is a man in touch with his roots. He completed three years of his tenure as the speaker on June 19.
More than 100 opposition lawmakers have signed the no-confidence motion, including Ayaz Sadiq, Khursheed Shah, PPP's Naveed Qamar and JUI-F's Shahida Akhtar Ali.
Mahana filed his nomination papers for the Speaker's post on Monday and no opposition party filed nominations against him. The deadline for filing nomination was 2 p.m. Monday.
The delegates visited Swaminarayan Temple in Abu Dhabi and witnessed the work being done by Indian artisans to create a confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati inside the temple, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a note stated here.
The orientation programme will be organised by Parliamentary Research and Training Institute for Democracies (PRIDE), and Lok Sabha Secretariat, in coordination with the Bihar Legislative Assembly Secretariat for the members of both the state Assembly and Legislative Council.
