"We wanted to postpone dates of RS elections so that no horse-trading is being done. BJP's intention is clear, they want to use money & central investigative agencies to destroy the environment. We are in power, they shouldn't forget this," Raut said.
Congress has nominated three candidates from Rajasthan including party's communication department in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari.
A volvo bus from Deepender Singh Hooda's residence will take MLAs to Indira Gandhi Airport (IGI) Terminal 4. From there, they will board plane for Raipur in Chhattisgarh, sources said.
Biennial elections for 57 Rajya Sabha seats will be held across 15 states on June 10.
Apart from the three Congress leaders including Vivek Tankha (Madhya Pradesh), P Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu) and Jairam Ramesh (Karnataka), the remaining candidates have not been given tickets from their home states for Rajya Sabha elections.
Janata Dal (United) didn't renominate its former chief and present Union Minister of Steel and Rajya Sabha member Ramchandra Prasad Singh.
The BJP has released the list of candidates for elections to the Rajya Sabha. Nirmala Sitharaman to contest from Karnataka, Piyush Goyal from Maharashtra.
Congress leader in Lok Sabha and party state unit President, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, said that after enjoying so many important posts being with Congress for so many years and holding important portfolios in UPA-I and UPA-II governments, Sibal took such an action out of his greed for a chair in the Rajya Sabha.
Kapil Sibal has filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections as an independent candidate from Uttar Pradesh. He enjoys the support of Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party.
Sources say Sibal may get the support of Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh like the last time. He may get the excess votes of SP and its allies.
The maximum number of seats fall in Uttar Pradesh i.e 11, and followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with 6 seats each.
Although there was neither any acceptance or denial from the Ganguly family on this count till this report was filed, statements by state party president, Sukanta Majumdar and BJP's national vice president, Dilip Ghosh on Monday sparked the speculation further.
The Upper House spent 37.50% of the functional time on debates, 23 per cent on Bills, while passing 11 of them, besides the introduction of one, an official statement from the Rajya Sabha stated.
Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill seeks to empower police to obtain physical and biological samples of convicts and those accused of crimes.
In a series of tweets, Modi said, "Over the last few days, the Parliament has witnessed a healthy discussion on the situation in Ukraine and India's efforts to bring back our citizens through Operation Ganga. I am grateful to all MP colleagues who enriched this discussion with their views."
Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti will make a statement regarding the status of implementation of recommendations contained in 16th report of the dept-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development on PMAY-G.
The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill-2022 also seeks to include certain other communities, including Kharwar, Deshwari, Ganjhu, Dautalbandi (Dwalbandi), Patbandi, Raut, in the list of Scheduled Tribes in Jharkhand.
According to the bill, passed by Lok Sabha last week, the unification of the municipal corporations will ensure synergised and strategic planning and optimal utilisation of resources.
The bill proposes that government shall set up an enquiry commission to investigate into the genocide and mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland and the commission will have prosecutorial power and the powers to appoint a judicial tribunal.
The BJP achieved this feat after winning four seats out of 13 for which polls were held on Thursday.
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