Madhya Pradesh Speaker

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated an orientation programme for members of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly at the Assembly premises in Bhopal today.

Former Union minister and senior leader of BJP, Narendra Singh Tomar was unanimously elected as the speaker of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly on Wednesday.

The BJP on Monday named its senior leader Narendra Singh Tomar as the new speaker of the Madhya Pradesh assembly, party leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

Not only did the Madhya Pradesh Assembly sit for an average of only 16 days a year - compared to 27 days in the previous term and 33 in the term before that - its speaker, parliamentary affairs minister and leader of opposition had low attendance.

Both the Madhya Pradesh Health Minister and the Assembly Speaker collapsed on stage at two separate events celebrating India's 77th Independence Day.

After Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the state's Assembly Speaker Girish Gautam has also opposed actor Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film, Pathaan.

A Madhya Pradesh Congress leader on Sunday wrote to the state Assembly speaker saying he was giving up his MLA railway concession as the Centre had done away with such norms for senior citizens.

The ruling Madhya Pradesh BJP, which champions Hindutva, and the opposition Congress, which has been treading the soft Hindutva line since 2018 in the state, have not shown any interest in the one-year long diploma course in Ramcharitmanas.

In a novel initiative in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly to "raise the confidence" of first time MLAs, all starred questions on which discussion will take place during the Question Hour on March 15 would be from them, Speaker Girish Gautam said on Friday.

BJP MLA Girish Gautam was unanimously elected as Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on the first day of the state budget session on Monday.

28 MLAs elected in the recent bypolls in Madhya Pradesh were administered the oath as members of the Assembly on Monday by protem speaker Rameshwar Sharma, a government official said.

The winter session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, which was scheduled to begin on December 28, has been postponed in view of the "COVID-19 situation", an official said on Sunday, hours after protem speaker disclosed that 61 employees and officials of the Assembly secretariat and five MLAs have tested coronavirus positive.

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker to apprise it by next week as to when he would decide the disqualification petitions against 22 Congress MLAs who switched sides to the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party.

A date has to be announced by next week regarding the decision on the disqualification of 22 defectors in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, the Supreme Court said today. A decision on the matter has been pending since March, when the MLAs changed camp from the Congress to the BJP, leading to the collapse of the Kamal Nath government. Many of the defecto...

The appointment of 28 ministers by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has come under the scanner of the Supreme Court, which on Wednesday took note of the objections of former assembly speaker and Congress leader that this violated the ceiling on the maximum number of ministers fixed under the Constitution.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated an orientation programme for members of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly at the Assembly premises in Bhopal today.

Former Union minister and senior leader of BJP, Narendra Singh Tomar was unanimously elected as the speaker of the Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly on Wednesday.

The BJP on Monday named its senior leader Narendra Singh Tomar as the new speaker of the Madhya Pradesh assembly, party leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan said.

Not only did the Madhya Pradesh Assembly sit for an average of only 16 days a year - compared to 27 days in the previous term and 33 in the term before that - its speaker, parliamentary affairs minister and leader of opposition had low attendance.

Both the Madhya Pradesh Health Minister and the Assembly Speaker collapsed on stage at two separate events celebrating India's 77th Independence Day.

After Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the state's Assembly Speaker Girish Gautam has also opposed actor Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film, Pathaan.

A Madhya Pradesh Congress leader on Sunday wrote to the state Assembly speaker saying he was giving up his MLA railway concession as the Centre had done away with such norms for senior citizens.

The ruling Madhya Pradesh BJP, which champions Hindutva, and the opposition Congress, which has been treading the soft Hindutva line since 2018 in the state, have not shown any interest in the one-year long diploma course in Ramcharitmanas.

In a novel initiative in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly to "raise the confidence" of first time MLAs, all starred questions on which discussion will take place during the Question Hour on March 15 would be from them, Speaker Girish Gautam said on Friday.

BJP MLA Girish Gautam was unanimously elected as Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on the first day of the state budget session on Monday.

28 MLAs elected in the recent bypolls in Madhya Pradesh were administered the oath as members of the Assembly on Monday by protem speaker Rameshwar Sharma, a government official said.

The winter session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, which was scheduled to begin on December 28, has been postponed in view of the "COVID-19 situation", an official said on Sunday, hours after protem speaker disclosed that 61 employees and officials of the Assembly secretariat and five MLAs have tested coronavirus positive.

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker to apprise it by next week as to when he would decide the disqualification petitions against 22 Congress MLAs who switched sides to the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party.

A date has to be announced by next week regarding the decision on the disqualification of 22 defectors in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, the Supreme Court said today. A decision on the matter has been pending since March, when the MLAs changed camp from the Congress to the BJP, leading to the collapse of the Kamal Nath government. Many of the defecto...

The appointment of 28 ministers by the Shivraj Singh Chouhan led BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has come under the scanner of the Supreme Court, which on Wednesday took note of the objections of former assembly speaker and Congress leader that this violated the ceiling on the maximum number of ministers fixed under the Constitution.