In spite of the BJP having an absolute majority in the Lok Sabha, Banerjee expressed doubts whether the present dispensation would be able to complete a five-year term.
The lawmakers of Madhya Pradesh created history by working for 22 hours at the weekend. The proceedings of the Legislative Assembly began on Saturday at 11 am and continued for 12 hours barring two brief adjournments in the morning.
The three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi will hear the joint petitions the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) filed on July 19, challenging its July 17 interim order that their 15 rebel legislators who resigned would not be compelled to attend the Assembly for the floor test although it defies their whip and hence disqualify them under the anti-defection law (10th Schedule of the Constitution).
Three days after a number of Bengali actors, including Parno Mitra, joined the Bhartiya Janta Party in Delhi, Bengali film and television actress Rimjhim Mitra along with actor Surojit Choudhury ann model Pamela Goswami followed the same path. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed the BJP for creating fear in the minds of celebrities by using the central agencies.
Two days of efforts to woo back the rebel MLAs after the government defied on July 19 two deadlines set by Governor Vajubhai Vala to prove majority appeared to have fallen flat as the lawmakers hunkered down in a Mumbai hotel asserted they would not return and rejected allegations they were held captive.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is slated to visit violence-hit Sonbhadra today, where he will meet the family members of those killed over a land dispute in Sonbhadra. Yogi Adityanath will also address a press conference in Ubbah village later during the day. On Saturday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had met the families of those killed in Sonbhadra tragedy.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh of being "dictatorially inclined" and said party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's "imprisonment" at Chunar guesthouse is an attempt to trample upon democracy.
Sonbhadra massacre: After she resolved that she will not leave unless she was allowed to meet families of those killed, few members from the families came forward to Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Friday morning. Meanwhile, A TMC delegation was detained at the airport in Varanasi on Saturday when it was going to meet families of victims of the Sonbhadra clash in which 10 people were gunned down this week over a land dispute, party MP Derek O'Brien said.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has accepted the resignation of Navjot Singh Sidhu. The resignation has been forwarded to Governor Vijayender Pal Singh Badnore. Sidhu, who has been at loggerheads with Singh and was stripped off-key portfolios in the cabinet reshuffle in June has submitted his resignation from the state cabinet. Earlier, Singh had said if Sidhu did not want to do his job, there was nothing he could do about it.
Karnataka political crisis has many recalling the landmark Bommai judgement delivered 25 years ago. The judgment dealt with the crisis with respect to then Karnataka Chief Minister SR Bommai, the defection of MLAs and Karnataka Governor's directive. The situation bears resemblance to the current crisis in which CM Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) is trying to survive amid the rebellion of MLAs from its fold. The deadline set by Governor Vajubhai Vala to prove majority in Legislative Assembly has been crossed atleast twice.
As the assembly failed to take up the voting on the confidence motion to decide the fate of the 14-month-old government, the unending political drama sparked by the resignation of 15 MLAs of the ruling coalition a fortnight ago is set to spill over to next week with Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar adjourning the House till Monday.
"Encounter specialist" Pradeep Sharma, a Maharashtra Police Senior Police Inspector, who once featured on the cover of Time magazine and is reputed to have gunned down over 150 criminals and terrorists has put down his papers after 35 years of service.
As second deadline issued to him by Karanataka Governor Vajubhai Vala drew nearer, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that second 'love letter' from the Governor has hurt him. He was speaking in Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Amid heated debate during the trust vote in Karnataka Assembly, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy took a dig a rival BJP by raising the issue of lemons and black magic. Attacking the BJP for mocking his brother and Karnataka PWD minister HD Revanna for carrying lemon with him to events, Kumaraswamy in the Assembly asked if black magic and lemons could save the government.
Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Friday extended the deadline for Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to prove his government's majority in the state legislative Assembly here till 6 p.m., after the latter missed the 1.30 p.m. deadline set by the Governor.
Karnataka Congress moved the Supreme Court Friday contending that its July 17 order on the resignation of 15 rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs was coming in the way of the party issuing whip to its legislators in the ongoing trust vote.
Rahul Gandhi, perhaps after a long time lately, directly took on the BJP on Friday soon after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi was detained by Uttar Pradesh Police. The tweet assumes imporatance as it marks his first direct attack against the BJP in recent times especially after his decision to step down as Congress president in the aftermath of Lok Sabha elections 2019.
Karnataka Crisis: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala has already written to CM Kumaraswamy to prove majority in Karnataka Legislative Assembly by 1:30 pm on Friday. Kumaraswamy has expressed reservations about the direction issued by the governor.
The ruling Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) allies will also petition the apex court against the Governor's order as the Chief Minister had already moved the confidence motion on Thursday and initiated the debate on it for the floor test.
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today said that her party will never bow down in front of the BJP. Mayawati further slammed the Narendra Modi-led party over the wealth of individual party workers.
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