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Saturday, April 27, 2024
TopicRajya Sabha

Topic: Rajya Sabha

Congress’ Abhishek Manu Singhvi moves Himachal HC challenging his defeat in Rajya Sabha polls

BJP's Harsh Mahajan won the 27 Feb election through draw of lots after both candidates secured 34 votes each.

Manmohan Singh, 53 other Rajya Sabha MPs to retire this week

The former PM was a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha for five terms.

IISc topper, philanthropist, author, ‘best investor’: Story of Sudha Murty, nominated by President to RS

PM Modi welcomes her nomination to Upper House of Parliament & hails it as a powerful testament to 'Nari Shakti'.

Former Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murty nominated to Rajya Sabha, Modi says ‘testament to Nari Shakti’

She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2023 and a Padma Shri in 2006 before that. She is married to Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy & is UK PM Rishi Sunak's mother-in-law.

‘Dynasts scared to contest LS polls, trying Rajya Sabha route to enter Parliament,’ says PM Modi

He launched veiled attack on Congress-RJD alliance in Bihar, claiming NDA has ‘pushed to margins’ those who ‘indulged in dynastic rule and created terror in the minds of people.’

BJP ‘coup’ in Samajwadi Party gives UP a taste of Bihar and Maharashtra politics

Eight Samajwadi Party MLAs defecting and voting for BJP Rajya Sabha candidates is nothing short of a ‘great betrayal’. Will the SP-Congress INDIA coalition, without the BSP, mount a challenge?

Ideology is dead. Rajya Sabha cross-voting shows politics is a livestock market now

I believed that getting rid of secret ballots ended the menace of money-fuelled Rajya Sabha elections. But this week’s polls show that we overestimated the dignity of some of our legislators.

Six Congress MLAs who cross voted in RS polls head to Shimla for State Budget Session

The Budget Session is set to convene today with the BJP pressing for division voting on the passing of the Budget after it is introduced in the assembly.

On Camera

Congress can’t deny Modi’s charge of Muslim quota. Karnataka & 2009 manifesto are proof

The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.