Lawmakers Disqualified

JDS lawmaker Sharangouda Kandkur has demanded the suspension of party leader Prajwal Revanna amid a row over explicit videos - allegedly showing the Hassan MP sexually assaulting multiple women - that began circulating a day after voting.

More legislators are feeling suffocated in the Congress and would also show courage to leave the party in the coming days, said Rajinder Rana, one of the six disqualified MLAs who switched to the BJP on Saturday.

Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said Tuesday, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics.

The Supreme Court on Friday in a landmark ruling held that a vote cast by a lawmaker prior to his conviction in a criminal case on the same day cannot be termed as invalid saying holding him disqualified even before he was convicted "would grossly violate his substantive right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty".

Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers said Wednesday they would all resign, after China gave the city the power to disqualify politicians deemed a threat to national security and four of their colleagues were ousted.

Hong Kong stripped four pro-democracy lawmakers of their seats Wednesday after Beijing passed a resolution giving local authorities the power to disqualify politicians deemed a threat to national security without having to go through the city's courts.

The Tamil Nadu government informed the Supreme Court on Friday the Assembly Speaker has initiated action on DMK petition alleging the speaker did not act on a plea seeking disqualification of 11 AIADMK lawmakers voted against Chief Minister E Palaniswami during a 2017 confidence vote.

The Supreme Court today sought the Tamil Nadu government's response on a DMK petition, which has alleged the assembly speaker did not act on a plea seeking disqualification of 11 AIADMK lawmakers who voted against Chief Minister E Palaniswami during a 2017 confidence vote.

In a path breaking ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said Parliament should "rethink" whether the Speaker of a House should continue to have powers to disqualify lawmakers as such a functionary "belongs to a particular political party".

A four-time Karnataka BJP MLAjoined the Congress on Thursday amid mounting resentment over several disqualified lawmakers being fielded by the ruling party in the upcoming assembly bypolls as a reward for bringing down the HD Kumaraswamy government.

In an attempt to make a comeback into active politics, the disqualified Karnataka MLAs on Friday held a meeting looking forward to get their case heard at the earliest in the Supreme Court and discussed development activities in the assembly segments they had represented.

Delhi Assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Friday disqualified rebel Aam Aadmi Party MLA Kapil Mishra under the anti-defection law, saying his campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls indicated that he has "given up the membership of his original political party".

Janata Dal-Secular president and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Wednesday expelled the three disqualified lawmakers who were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in Karnataka for "anti-party" activities.

Fourteen Congress lawmakers, responsible for bringing down the coalition government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular in Karnataka, have been disqualified by the party on Tuesday. Two Congress lawmakers, Ramesh Jarkiholi and Mahesh Kumathahalli, had been expelled last week. R Shankar, an Independent, was also disqualified last...

The BJP government led by BS Yediyurappa sailed through the trust vote in the Karnataka assembly today after an intense, three-week power struggle, which saw 18 lawmakers bring down the 14-month-old coalition government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy. Yesterday, the last of the coalition's rebel lawmakers were disqualified by Speaker KR Ramesh ...

JDS lawmaker Sharangouda Kandkur has demanded the suspension of party leader Prajwal Revanna amid a row over explicit videos - allegedly showing the Hassan MP sexually assaulting multiple women - that began circulating a day after voting.

More legislators are feeling suffocated in the Congress and would also show courage to leave the party in the coming days, said Rajinder Rana, one of the six disqualified MLAs who switched to the BJP on Saturday.

Pakistan's national assembly has passed legislation limiting how long lawmakers can be disqualified from office, a state spokesman said Tuesday, paving the way for exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's return to politics.

The Supreme Court on Friday in a landmark ruling held that a vote cast by a lawmaker prior to his conviction in a criminal case on the same day cannot be termed as invalid saying holding him disqualified even before he was convicted "would grossly violate his substantive right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty".

Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers said Wednesday they would all resign, after China gave the city the power to disqualify politicians deemed a threat to national security and four of their colleagues were ousted.

Hong Kong stripped four pro-democracy lawmakers of their seats Wednesday after Beijing passed a resolution giving local authorities the power to disqualify politicians deemed a threat to national security without having to go through the city's courts.

The Tamil Nadu government informed the Supreme Court on Friday the Assembly Speaker has initiated action on DMK petition alleging the speaker did not act on a plea seeking disqualification of 11 AIADMK lawmakers voted against Chief Minister E Palaniswami during a 2017 confidence vote.

The Supreme Court today sought the Tamil Nadu government's response on a DMK petition, which has alleged the assembly speaker did not act on a plea seeking disqualification of 11 AIADMK lawmakers who voted against Chief Minister E Palaniswami during a 2017 confidence vote.

In a path breaking ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said Parliament should "rethink" whether the Speaker of a House should continue to have powers to disqualify lawmakers as such a functionary "belongs to a particular political party".

A four-time Karnataka BJP MLAjoined the Congress on Thursday amid mounting resentment over several disqualified lawmakers being fielded by the ruling party in the upcoming assembly bypolls as a reward for bringing down the HD Kumaraswamy government.

In an attempt to make a comeback into active politics, the disqualified Karnataka MLAs on Friday held a meeting looking forward to get their case heard at the earliest in the Supreme Court and discussed development activities in the assembly segments they had represented.

Delhi Assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Friday disqualified rebel Aam Aadmi Party MLA Kapil Mishra under the anti-defection law, saying his campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls indicated that he has "given up the membership of his original political party".

Janata Dal-Secular president and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Wednesday expelled the three disqualified lawmakers who were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in Karnataka for "anti-party" activities.

Fourteen Congress lawmakers, responsible for bringing down the coalition government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular in Karnataka, have been disqualified by the party on Tuesday. Two Congress lawmakers, Ramesh Jarkiholi and Mahesh Kumathahalli, had been expelled last week. R Shankar, an Independent, was also disqualified last...

The BJP government led by BS Yediyurappa sailed through the trust vote in the Karnataka assembly today after an intense, three-week power struggle, which saw 18 lawmakers bring down the 14-month-old coalition government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy. Yesterday, the last of the coalition's rebel lawmakers were disqualified by Speaker KR Ramesh ...