State Assembly And Legislative Council

After fierce UP assembly polls, the BJP and its key rival Samajwadi Party will be pitted against each other again for the April 9 elections for the 36 seats of the state's legislative council.

Maharashtra Legislative Council was adjourned twice on Wednesday after BJP legislator Gopichand Padalkar allegedly made some insulting remarks against Minister of State for Home Shambhuraj Desai and Council's Deputy Chairperson Neelam Gorhe.

On a day it won the elections held for two MLC seats in Maharashtra, the state BJP on Tuesday dared the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) to hold the election for the post of Assembly Speaker through secret ballot and indicated that BJP will win it.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lost his cool yet again on Wednesday when faced with protests by the Opposition MLAs in the legislative council over the manhandling of several legislators by security personnel in the state assembly the previous day. Blaming the MLAs of the opposition camp for the chaos, the Chief Minister defended the decision to...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that the upcoming sessions for State Assembly and Legislative Council will be digitised.

The BJP government in Karnataka, which is short of numbers in the Upper House of the legislature, today took the ordinance route to bring in its stringent cow protection law. Seeking harsher punishments for illegal slaughter, sale, and transport of cattle, the bill was passed without even a discussion on December 9 in the state Assembly, where the ...

The chairman of the Legislative Council in Telangana was hurt in the state assembly when a pair of headphones was hurled at him during the Governor's address today. Swamy Goud was taken to hospital when the missile thrown by Congress lawmaker Komatireddy Venkat Reddy apparently missed its target and hit him straight in the eye.

The son of a former BJP MLA was shot dead at a spot close to the Uttar Pradesh legislature complex in Lucknow late Saturday night and the law and order issue is again likely to rock the state Assembly and the Legislative Council tomorrow.

The Uttar Pradesh legislature today unanimously passed the UP Goods and Service Tax Bill 2017, paving the way for the Narendra Modi government to roll out the indirect tax regime from July 1. It being a money bill, the proposed legislation was returned by voice vote by the legislative council hours after the state assembly approved it unanimously.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh, four legislators of the opposition YSRC who switched loyalty to the ruling TDP-BJP coalition, and six others were inducted today into the Andhra Pradesh cabinet. This is the first reorganisation of the state council since the government was formed on June 8, 2014. Governor ESL Nar...

Introducing four bills to give effect to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Mr Jaitley said the legislations will have to be passed by Parliament and one by each of the state assemblies to turn India into one market with a single tax rate.

BJP's N Biren Singh, who took oath as Manipur's Chief Minister on March 15, has to prove his majority in the state assembly today. Despite being the second largest party - with 21 legislators - in the recently-concluded assembly elections, the BJP claims to have the support of 33 legislators with the help of regional parties and independent lawmake...

The BJP's Nongthombam Biren Singh will take oath as Manipur's next chief minister this afternoon along with his council of ministers, making it four states out of five for the party from Saturday's assembly election results. Governor Najma Heptulla said she is satisfied that the BJP has the support of more than the 31 legislators in the assembly it...

Voting for 25 seats of the Legislative Council or Upper House of the Karnataka Assembly was held in the state on Sunday. A total of 125 candidates contested for the seats with maximum fielded by the three major parties in fray, the ruling Congress, the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular).

The Gauhati High Court has come down heavily on Arunachal Pradesh Governor JP Rajkhowa saying he is required to perform his duty with the aid of the Council of Ministers but his action of advancing the Assembly session on the demand of Opposition legislators "taints" the decision and renders it "unworthy of the state's constitutional head".

After fierce UP assembly polls, the BJP and its key rival Samajwadi Party will be pitted against each other again for the April 9 elections for the 36 seats of the state's legislative council.

Maharashtra Legislative Council was adjourned twice on Wednesday after BJP legislator Gopichand Padalkar allegedly made some insulting remarks against Minister of State for Home Shambhuraj Desai and Council's Deputy Chairperson Neelam Gorhe.

On a day it won the elections held for two MLC seats in Maharashtra, the state BJP on Tuesday dared the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) to hold the election for the post of Assembly Speaker through secret ballot and indicated that BJP will win it.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lost his cool yet again on Wednesday when faced with protests by the Opposition MLAs in the legislative council over the manhandling of several legislators by security personnel in the state assembly the previous day. Blaming the MLAs of the opposition camp for the chaos, the Chief Minister defended the decision to...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that the upcoming sessions for State Assembly and Legislative Council will be digitised.

The BJP government in Karnataka, which is short of numbers in the Upper House of the legislature, today took the ordinance route to bring in its stringent cow protection law. Seeking harsher punishments for illegal slaughter, sale, and transport of cattle, the bill was passed without even a discussion on December 9 in the state Assembly, where the ...

The chairman of the Legislative Council in Telangana was hurt in the state assembly when a pair of headphones was hurled at him during the Governor's address today. Swamy Goud was taken to hospital when the missile thrown by Congress lawmaker Komatireddy Venkat Reddy apparently missed its target and hit him straight in the eye.

The son of a former BJP MLA was shot dead at a spot close to the Uttar Pradesh legislature complex in Lucknow late Saturday night and the law and order issue is again likely to rock the state Assembly and the Legislative Council tomorrow.

The Uttar Pradesh legislature today unanimously passed the UP Goods and Service Tax Bill 2017, paving the way for the Narendra Modi government to roll out the indirect tax regime from July 1. It being a money bill, the proposed legislation was returned by voice vote by the legislative council hours after the state assembly approved it unanimously.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh, four legislators of the opposition YSRC who switched loyalty to the ruling TDP-BJP coalition, and six others were inducted today into the Andhra Pradesh cabinet. This is the first reorganisation of the state council since the government was formed on June 8, 2014. Governor ESL Nar...

Introducing four bills to give effect to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Mr Jaitley said the legislations will have to be passed by Parliament and one by each of the state assemblies to turn India into one market with a single tax rate.

BJP's N Biren Singh, who took oath as Manipur's Chief Minister on March 15, has to prove his majority in the state assembly today. Despite being the second largest party - with 21 legislators - in the recently-concluded assembly elections, the BJP claims to have the support of 33 legislators with the help of regional parties and independent lawmake...

The BJP's Nongthombam Biren Singh will take oath as Manipur's next chief minister this afternoon along with his council of ministers, making it four states out of five for the party from Saturday's assembly election results. Governor Najma Heptulla said she is satisfied that the BJP has the support of more than the 31 legislators in the assembly it...

Voting for 25 seats of the Legislative Council or Upper House of the Karnataka Assembly was held in the state on Sunday. A total of 125 candidates contested for the seats with maximum fielded by the three major parties in fray, the ruling Congress, the BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular).

The Gauhati High Court has come down heavily on Arunachal Pradesh Governor JP Rajkhowa saying he is required to perform his duty with the aid of the Council of Ministers but his action of advancing the Assembly session on the demand of Opposition legislators "taints" the decision and renders it "unworthy of the state's constitutional head".