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Acrimony between the BJP and Congress marked the monsoon session of parliament which concluded on Thursday and had significant legislation on its agenda, including the GST bill. “This session has educated public opinion that India’s economic interests are being held...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reluctance to attend Parliament’s business advisory meetings has led to other parties, more so the Congress party in whittling down its own seniority of participation.

With the entire Monsoon Session of Parliament going waste due to continued protests by the opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday compared the the behaviour of the Congress with that during the emergency days.

With four days left to go for the monsoon session, the Congress continued to paralyse both houses of parliament, forcing finance minister Arun Jaitley on 10 August to go hammer and tongs against the situation prevailing in the Rajya Sabha.

BJP activists pelted stones at one of the vehicles carrying congress’ workers and damaged the glass windows.

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.

The Congress, supported by some opposition parties, has been demanding the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje on their alleged help to Lalit Modi and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam. The Congress Vice...

He didn’t forget to mention the stalemate that continues in the parliament and appealed to all the parties for supporting the GST bill so that it can be passed in order to subsume taxes and rationalize the tax system.

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.

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.

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.