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Does a graduate MLA do better than a 12th-pass one? Here’s what UN University study found

Nikhil Rampal - 29 June, 2022

Conducted by researcher from a Delhi-based think tank, study funded & released by United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research this month.

The corrupt won’t be spared, says Punjab CM Mann. Cites ‘One MLA, one pension’ as example

Bismee Taskin - 25 June, 2022

Under the scheme, MLAs will get pension for only one term, instead of for each term served. The CM has said his govt plans to table a bill on the same in the ongoing budget session.

Floods in Assam, need govt’s full attention, Cong asks Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde to leave

ThePrint Team - 24 June, 2022

Congress state chief writes to Shinde, says the ‘royal hospitality’ provided to him and his MLAs at the time of floods was ‘unfair and unacceptable’.

MLAs are political entrepreneurs. Maharashtra is just the latest example

+TFP Vir Sanghvi - 23 June, 2022

Your MLA is not on your side. Electoral victories are political equivalent of a start-up loan.

Parties corralling MLAs for RS polls is a farce. It’s becoming a house of power games

ThePrint Team - 7 June, 2022

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Training camp on voting? BJP shifts Rajasthan MLAs to resort days before Rajya Sabha polls

Neelam Pandey - 6 June, 2022

Move comes days after Congress sent its legislators to an Udaipur resort in an apparent bid to avoid poaching. Five candidates in fray against four Rajya Sabha vacancies in state.

MVA members arguing again, Pawar not convinced, but Uddhav govt backs new houses for ‘rural MLAs’

Purva Chitnis - 30 March, 2022

Opposition cites legislators’ high salaries & perks, calls new housing scheme an ‘attempt to keep the flock together’ in the House. Some MVA legislators have criticised the scheme as well.

Nearly 5,000 criminal cases pending against sitting & former MPs, MLAs, SC told

Bhadra Sinha - 4 February, 2022

UP tops list with 1,339 cases still pending for final disposal. Bihar is second. Amicus curiae Vijay Hansaria says Centre didn’t provide suggestions over the monitoring panel.

Like Patel, Bose, Nehru, Indian MPs & MLAs must start at the bottom: in civic, panchayat bodies

Sanjeev Chopra - 20 December, 2021

Resistance to decentralisation does not come much from All-India Service officers but from state-level political leadership who know their powers of patronage will be curtailed.