Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra criticised the Uttar Pradesh government over law and order, hours after Amanullah, a retired Army officer, was killed in a beating at his home in Amethi. Priyanka Gandhi’s charge In a post on Twitter, she accused the BJP government led by Yogi Adityanath of being busy concealing incidents while crime continued unchecked in the state. The killing The attack took place on Saturday night in Godiyan Ka Purwa village, which falls in the Kamrauli police station area. According to police, the 64-year-old was sleepingRead More

Rebel JD(S) MLA AH Vishwanath, one of the legislators the Karnataka Speaker disqualified on Sunday, called the decision “against the law” and said he and the other affected legislators would approach the Supreme Court on Monday. Vishwanath’s argument Speaking from an undisclosed location, Vishwanath argued that legislators could not be compelled to attend the House merely because a whip had been issued. He said the Speaker had disqualified 20 members of the legislature for failing to attend, and that they would challenge the ruling before the Supreme Court. The disqualificationsRead More

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, sworn in for a fourth time last week, was due to move a confidence motion in the Assembly in Bengaluru on Monday to prove his majority, with the Speaker’s disqualification of rebel MLAs making his task easier. Preparations The state BJP held a legislature party meeting on Sunday at Hotel Chancery Pavilion in Bengaluru, where its MLAs were to spend the night. Afterwards, Yediyurappa said he would move the confidence motion and then introduce the Finance Bill, which he expected both the Congress and theRead More

Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar’s order disqualifying 17 dissident Congress and JD(S) MLAs until the end of the current Assembly’s term is legally vulnerable and could be struck down by a constitutional court, an analysis has argued. The Goa precedent The main difficulty, according to the analysis, is that barring the MLAs until 2023 conflicts with a 2017 Bombay High Court judgment in a Goa Assembly case. That ruling held clearly that disqualification under the Tenth Schedule does not prevent a legislator from going back to the voters and beingRead More

Maharashtra Water Resources Minister and senior BJP leader Girish Mahajan claimed in Mumbai on Sunday that at least 50 MLAs from the Congress and the NCP were in contact with the BJP about switching sides before the state polls scheduled for later this year. Mahajan’s claims His remarks followed a series of departures from Sharad Pawar’s NCP. Mahajan said senior NCP leader Chitra Wagh had told the BJP a month earlier that she wanted to join it, saying she saw no future in her own party. He said the CongressRead More