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All Members of Parliament will have to undergo a COVID-19 test to attend the Monsoon Session, which is likely to begin September 14. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday held a meeting with officials of the Health Ministry, AIIMS, DRDO, and other agencies to give a final shape to arrangements. During the meeting, Birla gave directions to ensure that proper caution is exercised with regard to health safety and for this, comprehensive arrangements related to health checkups are being put in place within the Parliament House.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3gEIwVp

The BJP on Wednesday nominated party spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam for the upcoming Rajya Sabha bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, necessitated by sitting member Amar Singh's death. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/34OVJZx

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, who is among the 23 party leaders who have written to Sonia Gandhi seeking an organisational overhaul, said on Tuesday that "it is not about a post" but about the country that matters most. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3jaO1fZ

Amid a debate over the leadership issue, top Congress leaders will meet at 11 am through video-conferencing today and are likely to discuss the matter. Sources said Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to offer her resignation in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, the highest decision-making body of the party. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/31nem4s

Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi, who headed benches that pronounced several key judgements including in the Ayodhya land dispute case, might be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Assam in the Assembly election next year, veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi has claimed. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3l7pU3E

BJP President J P Nadda said on Sunday that all three NDA constituents in Bihar, the JD(U), LJP and his party, will fight the coming assembly polls in the state together with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the face of the alliance, and expressed confidence that it will emerge victorious. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3aQrxOu

The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is expected to witness a major showdown in a debate over the leadership issue on Monday. The highest decision-making body of the party will meet at 11 am through video conference amid a debate raging in the Congress over the uncertainty related to its leadership. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3l6DNPA

Taking a jibe at former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia said that the ex-CM was 15 months ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose coronavirus lockdown. As Nath imposed lockdown in Vallabh Bhavan 15 months before PM Modi ordered nationwide curb.   from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3aOQBFK

Slamming his political opponent and former chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan took a jibe at Kamal Nath for reciting Hanuman Chalisa. Addressing a rally in Gwalior, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that Kamal Nath was reciting Hanuman Chalisa on the day of foundation stone laying ceremony of Ram temple but chanting Hanuman Chalisa helps devotees, not devils. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2YkX8mk

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was ready to work under a non-Gandhi president after Rahul Gandhi's resignation following the defeat in the General Election in 2019. Rahul Gandhi also had said that the party should elect a president outside the family, but in August last year Sonia Gandhi was appointed the interim president of the Congress. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3iRSSCI

Bihar's Industries Minister, Shyam Rajak, who was expelled from the cabinet and Janata Dal-United (JDU) on Sunday, has joined the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD). He was inducted in RJD by the party leader in Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav. Shyam Rajak is currently an MLA from Patna's Phulwari Sharif constituency.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3iMNXTp

Patna: Bihar's Industries Minister and JD(U)'s national general secretary Shyam Rajak was on Sunday sacked from the state cabinet and expelled from the party. JD(U)'s chief spokesperson Sanjay Singh said he has been expelled for six years over anti-party activities. Shyam Rajak has been sacked from the state cabinet and he has also been expelled from the party for six years for his anti-party activities, Singh told PTI. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/313d4eY

Ulema Council Secretary Shahzad Ali, who reportedly played a role in the Shaheen Bagh protest that started last winter against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday along with other members from the minority community. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3kQDvfK

Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Friday quipped about the change in his seating position in the Rajashan assembly and said his party had sent him closer to the opposition benches as it wanted a strong warrior to guard its borders. Pilot used to sit alongside chief minister Ashok Gehlot in the front row when he was his deputy. However, the sacked deputy chief minister was seated closer to the opposition benches when the assembly convened for the session today. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2POevY2

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government is set to move a confidence motion in the Rajasthan Assembly during the session beginning today. The session was announced Thursday at the Congress Legislature Party meeting chaired by Gehlot. Just hours earlier, the opposition BJP said it will move a no-confidence motion during the session. The session comes days after the top leadership of the Congress announced the return of Sachin Gehlot and 18 other dissident MLAs to the party-fold. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2XX4w7q

Though differences between Sachin Pilot with the party leadership may have been moving towards an end after Congress decided to constitute a 3-member panel to listen to Pilot's grievances, BJP in Rajasthan will move a motion of no confidence in the state assembly against the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government, leader of opposition Gulab Chand Kataria said on Thursday. The decision was taken in a BJP legislature party meeting today.   After the meeting, Kataria told reporters that the motion of no confidence will be moved in the assembly session which is beginning from Friday. The opposition party's decision comes days after an "amicable resolution" of the nearly month-long political cisis in Rajasthan. Congress leader Sachin Pilot had openly rebelled against chief minister Gehlot last month along with 18 other party MLAs.   He was then sacked as deputy chief minister and the party’s Rajasthan chief.   The Congress on Monday had said the crisis in Rajasthan was a ...

Congress leader Sachin Pilot was greeted by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters with chants of "I love you" and 'Sachin Pilot zindabad' as he returned to the state after a month-long political crisis in Rajasthan. A smiling Pilot, walked amidst the throng of his supporters with folded hands, bowed and waved to them as he reached his residence in Jaipur, driving down from Delhi this afternoon. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/33Oz9Q8

Rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot, who returned to the party fold yesterday after a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, has said that there was no place for personal enmity, hatred or differences when it comes to politics. Pilot comments came after reporters asked him about his differences with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. "A three-member committee has been formed by Congress after issues raised by me and some MLAs. The issues we raised were of importance. There is no place for malice or personal enmity in politics," Sachin Pilot told reporters.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2XNPQr0

Amid political tussle in Rajasthan, Congress rebel leader Sachin Pilot on Monday said that he is not greedy for any post in the party or the Rajasthan government, but he fought completely for his own self-respect. Pilot interacted with media hours after his meeting with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2Cj2mHA

The crisis faced by the Congress government in Rajasthan appears to have ended with the party starting on Monday that former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot had "committed to working in the interest of the Congress party and the Congress government in Rajasthan" and a three-member committee will be formed to address the issues raised by Pilot and "the aggrieved" MLAs. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3ipQe6Y

Shah Faesal, who resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and floated the Jammu and Kashmir People's Movement (JKPM) last year, has resigned as its president, the party said on Monday. Faesal had dropped a hint about stepping away from politics on Sunday as he edited his personal details on Twitter, removing the reference to his political affiliations. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2XLPIIK

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NCP leader Nawab Malik on Monday denied reports of 12 party MLAs joining BJP. He dismissed them as baseless rumours.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/33NjyQH

Amid the political crisis in Rajasthan, former chief minister and BJP leader Vasundhara Raje met senior party leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday and is believed to have discussed the political situation in the state. Raje, who is in the national capital for the last few days, met BJP president J P Nadda on Friday. She had also met the party's general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2XFYsju

A massive political blame game has erupted over Sushant Singh Rajput's death case probe. After the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR taking over the investigation and re-registered the Patna police FIR related to alleged criminal conspiracy and abetment to suicide against his Rhea Chakraborty and her family members, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra has expressed its displeasure. Meanwhile, the Bihar government has opposed Rhea Chakraborty's plea in the Supreme Court as "premature, misconceived and non-maintainable ." from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2EUByy5

In a first major reshuffle in his government in two-and-a-half years, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has allocated portfolios to three new Ministers, besides changing those of other ministerial colleagues. The Chief Minister has retained eight departments, including Finance, Home, Tourism, Excise and Taxation, and Public Works. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/30jCMeF