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In what could be termed as a setback to the Congress, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said he won’t support the party if it doesn’t stops agitating in the Parliament.

Reacting sharply, Congress leader Anand Sharma said, “the unwarranted, uncharitable and provocative statement by the Finance Minister and BJP, accussing Congress of disruption makes it abundantly clear that the government is neither serious nor honest in breaking the...

This one-per cent additional levy, however, is rendered unnecessary after the Cabinet’s approval last month of the Rajya Sabha Select Committee’s recommendation requiring the Centre to commit itself to compensating all losses to the States owing to the transition to...

Even AIADMK, which had given a dissent note to the select committee of Rajya Sabha on the bill, seems to have been won over after a meeting between Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha and prime minister Narendra Modi in Chennai last week.

Rahul Gandhi maintained on Monday that Congress will allow Parliament to function only after external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj discloses her family’s financial transactions with controversial Lalit Modi. Sushma Swaraj should explain how much money of Lalit Modi has...

The goods and services tax (GST) bill has been listed for discussion and passage in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

The speaker of India’s Parliament on Monday barred 25 opposition legislators from its sessions for the rest of the week for causing “grave disorder” after they created noisy scenes. There were indications that even the Real Estate Bill could be brought in.

Prospect of an immediate end to the parliamentary logjam appeared bleak on Saturday with both the government and the Congress sticking to their guns ahead of an all-party meeting on Monday.

He said that the demand for the resignations of the then UPA ministers had been made by the BJP on the basis of investigations and the Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports.

The Congress MPs carried placards and wore black bands in protest.

Significantly, the Congress is in direct opposition to the BJP in both these states where there is no third party, and the two face each other directly in elections.

The standoff in Parliament between the government and the opposition took a new turn Monday when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan named and suspended 25 Congress members from Lok Sabha for five days for “persistently, wilfully obstructing” proceedings in the House.

Most of them, however, are opposed to it. Some of the Congress leaders have taken the stand that they have no objection to it provided such a policy is implemented with retrospective effect when the BJP members were the ones who had prevented functioning of the two Houses.

But this could dilute the two-week-long campaign of the Congress, Left and others on the issue of the resignations of Union minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje in the “Lalitgate” and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan...

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sharma said Parliament is not functioning because of his “arrogance and obduracy” as he has refused to end his “maun vrat” (vow of silence) on the issue.