Tag: Mlas

Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati gifted a Kotpad saree to Murmu while Pramila Mallick also presented a saree to her.  On the other hand, BJP legislator Bishnu Sethi presented a photo frame of his poem dedicated to Madam President.

New Delhi: Pronouncing its verdict on disqualification of sitting MPs and MLAs with criminal background, the Supreme Court today said that they can’t be disqualified before conviction in a criminal case as the apex court declined to interfere in the matter and left it to Parliament to frame relevant laws. Earlier, a Public Interest Litigation […]

Bhubaneswar: Not happy with the unofficial results of the three-tier Panchayat polls which concluded in Odisha on Tuesday, chief minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik expressed his resentment over the performance of his party though it managed to get more seats than its arch rival BJP and Congress. Referring to the outcome of the unofficial […]

Bhubaneswar: With the three-tier Panchayat polls in Odisha scheduled in mid-February this year, the ruling BJD has revved up its preparations in full swing. As part of the process, the meetings of the BJD organisational districts began at the residence of the party supremo and chief minister Naveen Patnaik at Naveen Niwas here today. On […]

New Delhi: With the intra-party feud in Odisha Congress is at its peak over the issue of PCC leadership, the meeting of four party MLAs with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi here today has kept the state party leaders in a state of suspense. Reports said the four MLAs—Jacob Pradhan, Krushna Chandra Sagaria, Kailash Kulesika […]

Bhubaneswar: Congress Legislature Party (CLP) led by its leader Narasingh Mishra today met Congress vice president at his residence in New Delhi to discuss various issues including the ongoing Mahanadi row and malnutrition deaths in Odisha. Talking to media persons after the meeting, AICC leader and Odisha in-charge BK Hariprasad said the CLP members in […]

Bhubaneswar: Intensifying its probe into the sting on four BJD MLAs, the Vigilance sleuths reportedly quizzed three legislators who appeared before the probe agency late on Wednesday night. The three MLAs interrogated by the anti-corruption wing are Seemarani Nayak (Hindol), Susant Kumar Behera (Chhendipada) and Bijay Kumar Nayak (Karanjia). However, Bhawanipatna MLA Anam Nayak did […]

Bhubaneswar: Motormouth Excise minister Damodar Rout and three BJD MLAs from Cuttack district – Mahanga MLA and BJD spokesperson Pratap Jena, Cuttack Barabati MLA Debasis Samantray and Cuttack Sadar legislator Pravat Biswal – landed at the Chief Minister’s chamber in the secretariat one after another this morning, setting off speculation that the visit had to […]

Gandhinagar: Cutting across party lines, the Gujarat legislators on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill in the State Assembly proposing to hike their salaries by at least Rs 45,000 a month with retrospective effect from February this year. Accordingly, the monthly salary of the MLAs will be increased to Rs 1.16 lakh from the existing Rs […]

New Delhi: A whopping 322 of the 403 new lawmakers elected to the Uttar Pradesh assembly are ‘crorepatis’ (multi-millionaires) while as many as 143 have criminal cases, including of murder, pending against them. According to a report by the National Election Watch, the list of multi-millionaires elected members is headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ajay […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stated that 12 special courts, to be set up to exclusively deal with cases involving lawmakers, should start functioning from March 1 next year and asked the Centre to “forthwith” allocate Rs 7.80 crore proportionately to the respective states. Immediately after the allocation of the funds by the […]

New Delhi: As many as 51 MPs and MLAs have declared cases of crime against women, including of alleged rape and abduction, a study said today. Of the 51, 48 are Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and three are Members of Parliament (MPs), said a study by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a non-government organisation […]

New Delhi: Of the outgoing legislators of the 2013 Delhi assembly, the BJP had the largest number of 30 crorepatis among the 31 elected, as well as the highest number of MLAs with criminal cases registered at 17, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Bhubaneswar: Disappointed over ticket distribution, three former MLAs along with their hundreds of supporters resigned from the Congress party in Odisha today. Former MLA of Junagarh, Gobardhan Das and two other ex-MLAs Kumarmani Shabar and Jugaram Behera reached the Pradesh Congress office in Bhubaneswar and tendered their resignations. Moreover, they alleged the party of selling […]

Bhubaneswar: Reprimanding some former MLAs once again for not surrendering their government quarters, the Odisha Assembly speaker, Surjya Narayan Patro today directed the ex-legislators to vacate quarters within three days. As per reports, some sitting MLAs have also been asked to vacate the quarters for a proposed multi-storey building for legislators. In the meantime, these […]