New Delhi: The Opposition Wednesday quoted former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s 2023 ruling as Rajya Sabha chairman—that Parliament can discuss any issue except the...
Party’s general secretary, Jairam Ramesh, raised the demand in a Rajya Sabha meeting. However, Union ministers JP Nadda and Kiren Rijiju, present along with Opposition leaders, did not respond.
When the Vice President raises concern over the Chief Justice of India’s role in appointing the CBI Director, he touches not on privilege, but on architecture.
The Congress MP had Wednesday submitted the notice claiming that remarks made by home minister were aimed at maligning image of former Congress President & Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi.
In notice to remove Dhankhar as V-P, INDIA bloc accuses him of ‘unfairly using privilege motions to silence Oppn’ & acting as ‘impassioned spokesperson of Modi govt’s policies,’ it is learnt.
At joint sitting of Parliament, the Vice President also invoked Ambedkar, who had questioned whether Indians would place the country 'above their creed' or vice versa.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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