The Lok Sabha is set to pass a unanimous resolution authorising the Speaker to take action against Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan over sexist remarks he made about Bihar MP Rama Devi. Ministers demand action Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, raising the matter in Zero Hour on Friday, said Khan’s comments in the House on Thursday, during the debate on the Triple Talaq Bill, were a “blot” on every legislator, men included. She said MPs could not stay silent and must say together that such conduct was unacceptable. Law MinisterRead More

Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa said on July 26 that Governor Vajubhai Vala would swear him in as Chief Minister of the state at 6 pm, after he called on the Governor at Raj Bhavan to stake a claim to form the government. Governor agrees to same-day oath Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Yeddyurappa said he had asked to be sworn in between 6 and 6.15 pm, and that the Governor had agreed and handed him a letter. He said the names of ministers would be decided after discussionsRead More

The chant “Jai Shri Ram”, hailing Lord Ram, has become a rallying cry and a means of Hindu mobilisation for the BJP across India, including West Bengal, where the party has grown into a major political force in recent years. The slogan’s spread in the state has gone hand in hand with that rise. Roots in the Ayodhya movement Ram, worshipped for centuries and regarded as the seventh avatar of Vishnu, became the subject of a widely used political chant during the Ramjanmabhoomi movement in Ayodhya nearly three decades ago,Read More

Senior BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa said he would be sworn in as Karnataka’s chief minister at around 6pm the same day, minutes after he called on Governor Vajubhai Vala to stake a claim to form the government. Former chief minister Siddaramaiah reacted by saying the BJP was using the Karnataka Assembly as an experimental laboratory, and asked how a governor could allow a party without a majority to form a government. Before the meeting Before going to the Governor at 10am, Yeddyurappa said he would request permission to take theRead More

BJP MP Vijay Goel on Thursday called for the death penalty for builders who cheat homebuyers out of their savings, telling the Rajya Sabha that the offence was “no less than rape”. Raised in Zero Hour Speaking during Zero Hour, the former Union minister described the plight of lakhs of buyers in the Delhi-NCR region who had paid for flats with hard-earned money and been defrauded by developers. Calling the fraud a “rape of the middle class”, he sought punishment as severe as capital punishment for builders who deliberately deceiveRead More