Congress Parliamentarians

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi retains membership of Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence, while actor-politician and first-time parliamentarian Kangana Ranaut of the BJP is assigned to the committee on Information Technology, the Rajya Sabha said.

In what appears to be a trailer to a stormy Parliament session, two senior parliamentarians of the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress traded barbs this morning, hours before the new Lok Sabha meets.

Electoral politics is, unfortunately, largely a cost-benefit analysis for the contestants, especially in a state like Karnataka with India's richest legislators and parliamentarians, most of whom have huge business interests.

Sources said Rahul Gandhi will meet and hold consultations with EU MPs on September 7 in Brussels, the first of his interactions during his visit.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been re-allotted the government bungalow in Delhi a day after he was reinstated as a parliamentarian after the Supreme Court put a stay on his conviction in the 2019 "Modi surname" defamation case.

In the pictures, the parliamentarian is seen posing next to his mother, Lily Tharoor, and sisters, Shobha and Smita Tharoor, with the marvellous monument in the backdrop.

Trinamool Congress MP and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay has written to fellow parliamentarian Sisir Adhikari asking him to explain why he participated in the vice presidential election when the party had decided to abstain

Amid repeated adjournments in Parliament, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday said parliamentarians should seriously introspect whether disruption is at all a "legitimate tactic", asserting that it should only be used in an "extreme situation".

Senior Congress leader and former legislator and parliamentarian, Thalekunnil Basheer, passed away on Friday morning, family sources said.

From urging parliamentarians to use their air travel benefits instead of charging the party, to donating Rs 50,000 a year to the party's coffers, the opposition Congress party has announced a range of measures to cut costs and raise funds.

The Lakshadweep administration has refused to permission to a group of Congress parliamentarians to visit the islands, saying that according to a police report, it might instigate violent agitations, which is part of planned effort to ruin the peace.

A Delhi court Tuesday granted bail to former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Parliamentarian KD Singh who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.

The Congress in Kerala has hit out at the ruling CPM following a former Left-backed Parliamentarian's "deplorable" comment against Rahul Gandhi during the election campaign a few days ago. The remarks came from Joyce George, former independent MP of Idukki, at a rally for the communist candidate and sitting minister MM Mani.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday lashed out at Congress leader and Wayanad parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi as well as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, days after the two had hit out at the Left government in Kerala during their respective campaigns in the state.

Becoming among the first lawmakers in India to get inoculated for the COVID-19 infection, BJP leader Mahesh Sharma, the MP from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, was vaccinated for the coronavirus on Saturday as a healthcare worker.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi retains membership of Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence, while actor-politician and first-time parliamentarian Kangana Ranaut of the BJP is assigned to the committee on Information Technology, the Rajya Sabha said.

In what appears to be a trailer to a stormy Parliament session, two senior parliamentarians of the ruling BJP and the Opposition Congress traded barbs this morning, hours before the new Lok Sabha meets.

Electoral politics is, unfortunately, largely a cost-benefit analysis for the contestants, especially in a state like Karnataka with India's richest legislators and parliamentarians, most of whom have huge business interests.

Sources said Rahul Gandhi will meet and hold consultations with EU MPs on September 7 in Brussels, the first of his interactions during his visit.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been re-allotted the government bungalow in Delhi a day after he was reinstated as a parliamentarian after the Supreme Court put a stay on his conviction in the 2019 "Modi surname" defamation case.

In the pictures, the parliamentarian is seen posing next to his mother, Lily Tharoor, and sisters, Shobha and Smita Tharoor, with the marvellous monument in the backdrop.

Trinamool Congress MP and Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay has written to fellow parliamentarian Sisir Adhikari asking him to explain why he participated in the vice presidential election when the party had decided to abstain

Amid repeated adjournments in Parliament, Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday said parliamentarians should seriously introspect whether disruption is at all a "legitimate tactic", asserting that it should only be used in an "extreme situation".

Senior Congress leader and former legislator and parliamentarian, Thalekunnil Basheer, passed away on Friday morning, family sources said.

From urging parliamentarians to use their air travel benefits instead of charging the party, to donating Rs 50,000 a year to the party's coffers, the opposition Congress party has announced a range of measures to cut costs and raise funds.

The Lakshadweep administration has refused to permission to a group of Congress parliamentarians to visit the islands, saying that according to a police report, it might instigate violent agitations, which is part of planned effort to ruin the peace.

A Delhi court Tuesday granted bail to former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Parliamentarian KD Singh who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.

The Congress in Kerala has hit out at the ruling CPM following a former Left-backed Parliamentarian's "deplorable" comment against Rahul Gandhi during the election campaign a few days ago. The remarks came from Joyce George, former independent MP of Idukki, at a rally for the communist candidate and sitting minister MM Mani.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday lashed out at Congress leader and Wayanad parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi as well as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, days after the two had hit out at the Left government in Kerala during their respective campaigns in the state.

Becoming among the first lawmakers in India to get inoculated for the COVID-19 infection, BJP leader Mahesh Sharma, the MP from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, was vaccinated for the coronavirus on Saturday as a healthcare worker.