political defection

Mumbai, April 10 Political circles in Maharashtra were abuzz on Friday with speculation about Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs defecting to the party led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, but both the Sena factions denied such a possibility.The Shiv Sena has secretly launched 'Operation...

Shimla, April 2 The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill on Thursday seeking to bar MLAs, disqualified under the anti-defection law, from receiving pensions.Six MLAs were disqualified by Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania in March 2024.The bill will deprive the two first-time MLAs, Chaitanya...

Hyderabad, March 29. Telangana Assembly Speaker on Sunday referred the incident of alleged unruly behaviour of opposition BRS MLA P. Kaushik Reddy in the House to the Ethics Committee.After legislative affairs minister D. Sridhar Babu moved a resolution to refer the alleged unethical behaviour...

Palakkad, March 28 – Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched a sharp attack on former Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader P.K. Sasi on Saturday, who is now contesting in Ottapalam with the backing of the United Democratic Front, calling him a "traitor" and asserting that "history...

Guwahati, March 28 Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar alleged here on Saturday that there is no other administration as corrupt as the one in Assam, claiming that the entire state ministry, as well as their family members, are involved in it.He questioned...

Guwahati, March 26 – In a setback for the Congress ahead of the upcoming elections in Assam, a close associate of the state Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi, along with over 100 party workers, joined the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in Kaliabor on Thursday.Among those who switched...

Hyderabad, March 26 – The Telangana High Court issued notices to Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar and two MLAs who won elections on the BRS ticket but allegedly defected to the ruling Congress.The High Court issued the notices in response to petitions filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)...

Hyderabad, March 25 Senior Congress leader and former minister T. Jeevan Reddy resigned from the party on Wednesday, saying he had no other choice after facing humiliation despite working selflessly for more than four decades.At a meeting with party workers and supporters in the town of...

Guwahati, March 23 – Reacting to Nandita Gorlosa's defection to the Congress, Assam BJP President Dilip Saikia said on Monday that he had personally urged her to stay in the party, but she chose to make a "personal decision."Saikia recalled that ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections, he had...

Kannur (Kerala), March 21 CPI(M) dissident V Kunhikrishnan said on Saturday that he had to dismantle his election office after party members allegedly threatened the landowner in Payyannur.Kunhikrishnan is contesting from the CPI(M) stronghold of Payyannur after defecting from the party...

Guwahati, March 17 – In a significant political development ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament, Pradyut Bordoloi, tendered his resignation from the primary membership of the party on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the Congress in the state...

Kolkata, March 17 – A BJP leader from Suvendu Adhikari's constituency in Nandigram, joined the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday in the presence of the party's General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee.According to party insiders, Pabitra Kar is set to contest the Assembly elections from Nandigram on a...

Thrissur (Kerala), March 16 In a significant political development ahead of the Assembly elections in Kerala, sitting CPI MLA C. C. Mukundan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday after being denied a second consecutive ticket by his party.Mukundan, the legislator from Nattika in...

Hyderabad, March 13 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Deputy Floor Leader in the Telangana Assembly wrote a letter to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, questioning the "blatant contradiction" between what he preaches nationally about protecting the Constitution and what his party practices in...

New Delhi, March 12 – The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed contempt petitions alleging non-compliance with its earlier order directing the Telangana Assembly Speaker to decide on disqualification pleas against MLAs who had defected from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to the ruling Congress...

Hyderabad, March 11 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that the Speaker of the Telangana Assembly made the decision on the disqualification petitions against defecting MLAs under pressure from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) accused the Congress...

Hyderabad, March 11 – Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday termed Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar's "clean chit" to MLAs Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari in the anti-defection case as an open attack on democracy.He reacted strongly on 'X'...

Hyderabad, March 11 Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by BRS seeking the disqualification of two MLAs, Danam Nagender and Kadiam Srihari.Prasad Kumar toldBRS had filed petitions against Nagender and Srihari, along with eight...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist once hailed as the "Chanakya" of West Bengal politics, defined an era of silent political coups and shifting loyalties as a master of defection, yet ironically, he came to embody the very politics he perfected.With the passing of the founding...

Kolkata, Feb 21 The latest developments in West Bengal politics, stemming from Pratikur Rahman's defection to the TMC, could provide a significant boost to the ruling party, especially given the concerns about its declining popularity among Muslim voters, stakeholders said.Rahman's move may...