The security in-charge has sought action against the pilot of the chartered plane, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, Kanishk Kant Dubey, Mahikant Dubey, MP Manoj Tiwari, Mukesh Pathak, Devta Pandey, Pintu Tiwary and Sandeep Dhingra, Airport Director. Deoghar: Deoghar Police in Jharkhand has registered an FIR against BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey,... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): Taking a jibe at Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Union Minister Arjun Munda said the Election Commission will soon make a decision regarding the stone mining case.

New Delhi Mar 25 PTI Opposition members on Friday made a strong demand in Lok Sabha to rein in rising fuel prices and accused the government of putting the people to difficult times soon after the elections were overInitiating the discussion on the Finance Bill in the Lok Sabha Congress member Gaurav Gogoi said the government had kept the prices of petrol diesel and cooking gas stable for a month and increased them thrice after the electionsFuel prices have increased for the third time and jingoism is the only antidote this government is offering to the poor Whether there is record unemployment high inequality or inflation people are expected to put all their faith in the supreme leader he saidTrinamool member Satabdi Roy said the poor of the country were not bothered about the Finance Bill but were keen to know when the prices of petrol diesel and cooking gas would reduceNCP leader Supriya Sule said the BJP rode to power on the slogan against inflation and it was time to remind the ruling party of its campaign against corruptionEven my mother used to tell me back then that prices of essential commodities were too high and it may affect the then government adversely After many years she is telling me again that inflation is rising Sule saidBJP member Nishikant Dubey hit out at the previous UPA government for issuing oil bonds to soften the impact of the high international crude pricesThese oil bonds carried an interest rate ranging from 635 per cent to 84 per cent The government had to pay Rs 40000 crore as interest on these oil bonds Dubey said adding that all big businessmen with a networth of Rs 5000 crore and more benefited from thisHe claimed that rising oil prices were due to the Ukraine conflict and wondered whether the government should resort to similar tactics of issuing oil bondsOur prime minister wants to tell the people that there is a crisis at hand and oil prices are bound to increase The situation is such that there will be inflation there will be an increase in prices of petrol and LPG There is a difference between votebank politics and politics of the nation Dubey saidHe said the government was working toward reducing dependence on oil imports by encouraging ethanol blending to the tune of 20 per cent and electric mobilityDubey also said the notion that Centres policies were responsible for high prices of petroleum products should be done away with as several opposition ruled states levied high VAT on fuelTDP member Jaydev Galla sought a clarification from the finance minister on the Russian offer to supply India with crude and also explore the possibility of exporting Indian wheat mustard and cottonHe also wanted the government to amend the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act to insert a clause declaring Amravathi as the only capital of the stateHe urged the finance minister to approve the revised cost of the Polavaram irrigation projectDMK member K Sundaram said the finance minister had conveniently ignored the aspirations and problems faced by the taxpayerHow do you expect the people to spend when they have no income he said PTI SKU ZMN

New Delhi Dec 20 PTI A Bill to link electoral roll data with Aadhaar ecosystem and bring other poll reforms was passed by Lok Sabha on Monday after a brief debate and amid demand by the opposition to refer it to a standing committee The Election Laws Amendment Bill 2021 piloted by Law Minister Kiren Rijiju was passed by a voice vote with opposition members claiming that the move to link electoral roll with Aadhaar number would violate privacy and could even allow non-citizens to vote So if you are in a position where you are asking Aadhaar for voters all you are getting is a document that reflects residence It does not reflect any proof of citizenship Therefore you are potentially giving the right to vote to non-citizens Congress member Shashi Tharoor said in Lok Sabha Besides linking electoral roll to Aadhaar the bill also seeks to make the statutes gender neutral by substituting the term wife with spouse to allow husbands of service voters to cast their vote from the place where their wives are posted It also seeks to provide four qualifying dates -- January 1 April 1 July 1 and October 1 -- in a year for registration of voters instead of a single qualifying date -- January 1 The Bill was introduced after 12 noon and passed amid din by 1510 pm Opposition members slammed the government for rushing the bill through parliamentary process in a tearing hurry and demanded that it be referred to a standing committee In a statement the CPIM Polit Bureau condemned the manner in which important changes in the electoral laws which have far-reaching consequences have been rushed through Lok Sabha and passed in a din Responding to opposition concerns in Lok Sabha the law minister said the Bill seeks to justify the Supreme Court judgement in the Puttaswamy case that defines the fundamental right to privacy Rijiju said the Bill justified all the conditions given in the judgement -- permissible law legitimate state interests test of proportionality He said the Bill will help in weeding out multiple entries in the electoral rolls and ensure that a person is registered as a voter in one constituency and would eventually lead to clean elections On Aadhaar linkage Rijiju said This is voluntary not compulsory or mandatory The Bill makes it clear that no application for inclusion of name in the electoral roll shall be denied and no entries in the electoral roll shall be deleted for inability of an individual to furnish or intimate Aadhaar number due to such sufficient cause as may be prescribed Rejecting the demand for referring the Bill to a panel Rijiju said various proposals which are part of the bill have already been suggested and recommended by the Standing Committee of Law and Personnel The minister further said that the Bill will cleanse the election system and eliminate multiple entries He said the government wanted a full debate on the Bill but could not do so because of the uproar in the House BJP member Nishikant Dubey said the Congress and the Trinamool Congress were opposed to the Bill due to vote bank politics as they will not be able to make Bangladeshi and Nepali citizens voters in India Certain remarks of Dubey on a Union minister who was earlier part of the poll panel and a former Lok Sabha member whose citizenship was under cloud were expunged by the Chair Most of the opposition members demanded that the Bill may be referred to the standing committee for scrutiny and detailed deliberations Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and NCP member Supriya Sule wondered why this important Bill was being pushed in a tearing hurry by the government Many opposition members suggested for garnering public opinion on such an important legislation This is no way to pass a legislation and there should be a proper debate and discussion said N K Premchandran of the RSP Others who opposed the Bill included Ritesh Pandey BSP Kalyan Banerjee TMC Asaduddin Owaisi AIMIM and E T Mohammed Basheer PTI CS DP NAB SKU SMN

New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will continue as the chairman of the Parliament Standing Committee on Information Technology, amid strong opposition from the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).