Maharashtra Winter Session

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Tuesday urged the Maharashtra government to pass a bill to provide reservation to Marathas in the upcoming winter session of the state legislature instead of convening a special session for it.

Activists of Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES), an organisation that has been raising the issue for over five decades, have planned massive protests ahead of the winter session of the Karnataka Assembly.

Amid the raging border dispute with neighbouring Maharashtra and around five months to go for assembly elections in Karnataka, the winter session of the state legislature will begin at 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha' in Belagavi on Monday.

The Maharashtra Assembly was hit by COVID-19 during the Winter Session with nearly 50 people, including two ministers, testing positive for the virus.

The Maharashtra government is working on holding the Assembly speaker's election on Tuesday, the last day of the ongoing Winter Session, sources said on Monday.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar today pointed out that some MLAs were not wearing masks in the House during the ongoing winter session of the state legislature.

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday said election for the post of Assembly Speaker will be held by voice vote during the winter session, scheduled to begin from December 22.

The winter session of the Maharashtra legislature will be held in Mumbai instead of Nagpur from December 22 to 28, state Legislative Affairs Minister Anil Parab said on Monday.

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Sunday asked NCP leader and minister Nawab Malik to stop issuing threats about an "expose" during the upcoming winter session of the state legislature.

Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal said that the winter session of the Legislature will begin from December 7 in Nagpur.

The Shivaji University, Kolhapur, on Monday, deferred the upcoming October-November 2020 winter session exams due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in the state. The Shivaji University winter session exams were scheduled between April 6 and April 12.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray today invoked the "tea-seller" background of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to slam the opposition BJP which boycotted the customary tea party hosted by the government on the eve of the winter session of the state legislature.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the state Assembly's winter session, set to begin from Monday, is a "farce" as the Uddhav Thackeray-led government has not completed allocation of portfolios to minsters.

Parliament Winter Session Highlights: Protests are likely to continue for the second day over the BJP's surprise move to form goverment in Maharashtra over the weekend. On Monday, Congress's Rahul Gandhi said what happened in Mahashtra was "murder of democracy" while party chief Sonia Gandhi held a protest outside parliament with her colleagues.

As the winter session of parliament enters the second week, discussion on BJP's stunning comeback in Maharashtra over the weekend is expected to create uproar in both the houses of parliament today.

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Tuesday urged the Maharashtra government to pass a bill to provide reservation to Marathas in the upcoming winter session of the state legislature instead of convening a special session for it.

Activists of Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES), an organisation that has been raising the issue for over five decades, have planned massive protests ahead of the winter session of the Karnataka Assembly.

Amid the raging border dispute with neighbouring Maharashtra and around five months to go for assembly elections in Karnataka, the winter session of the state legislature will begin at 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha' in Belagavi on Monday.

The Maharashtra Assembly was hit by COVID-19 during the Winter Session with nearly 50 people, including two ministers, testing positive for the virus.

The Maharashtra government is working on holding the Assembly speaker's election on Tuesday, the last day of the ongoing Winter Session, sources said on Monday.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar today pointed out that some MLAs were not wearing masks in the House during the ongoing winter session of the state legislature.

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday said election for the post of Assembly Speaker will be held by voice vote during the winter session, scheduled to begin from December 22.

The winter session of the Maharashtra legislature will be held in Mumbai instead of Nagpur from December 22 to 28, state Legislative Affairs Minister Anil Parab said on Monday.

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Sunday asked NCP leader and minister Nawab Malik to stop issuing threats about an "expose" during the upcoming winter session of the state legislature.

Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal said that the winter session of the Legislature will begin from December 7 in Nagpur.

The Shivaji University, Kolhapur, on Monday, deferred the upcoming October-November 2020 winter session exams due to the rise in COVID-19 cases in the state. The Shivaji University winter session exams were scheduled between April 6 and April 12.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray today invoked the "tea-seller" background of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to slam the opposition BJP which boycotted the customary tea party hosted by the government on the eve of the winter session of the state legislature.

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the state Assembly's winter session, set to begin from Monday, is a "farce" as the Uddhav Thackeray-led government has not completed allocation of portfolios to minsters.

Parliament Winter Session Highlights: Protests are likely to continue for the second day over the BJP's surprise move to form goverment in Maharashtra over the weekend. On Monday, Congress's Rahul Gandhi said what happened in Mahashtra was "murder of democracy" while party chief Sonia Gandhi held a protest outside parliament with her colleagues.

As the winter session of parliament enters the second week, discussion on BJP's stunning comeback in Maharashtra over the weekend is expected to create uproar in both the houses of parliament today.