Samajwadi Party Sp Agrawal

Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Agrawal, who lost out in the race for re-nomination to the upper house to Jaya Bachchan, today quit the Samajwadi Party and joined the BJP, which was left embarrassed after he remarked that the SP had equated him with the film actor "who used to dance in films".

Politicians are often perceived to be hankering for perks and privileges because of the offices that they hold. But on Tuesday, some lawmakers appeared to protest the decision to set up dedicated courts to quickly decide criminal courts against them. One parliamentarian even suggested that such courts might run afoul of the constitutional guarantee...

Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Agrawal, who lost out in the race for re-nomination to the upper house to Jaya Bachchan, today quit the Samajwadi Party and joined the BJP, which was left embarrassed after he remarked that the SP had equated him with the film actor "who used to dance in films".

Politicians are often perceived to be hankering for perks and privileges because of the offices that they hold. But on Tuesday, some lawmakers appeared to protest the decision to set up dedicated courts to quickly decide criminal courts against them. One parliamentarian even suggested that such courts might run afoul of the constitutional guarantee...