Rajya Sabha

Last week, the Lok Sabha passed the The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to unify three municipal corporations in the national capital. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will move the Bill further to amend the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, as passed by the Lok Sabha, and be taken into consideration and to be passed.

Those who took oath are Pabitra Margherita and Rwngwra Narzary from Assam, Jebi Mather Hisham, Sandosh Kumar and A. Rahim from Kerala and S. Phangnon Konyak from Nagaland. BJP's Konyak, who was elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Nagaland, who became the first woman from the state to get a berth in the Parliament's Upper House. Konyak is also president of Nagaland BJP women wing.

For the first time the BJP tally in the Rajya Sabha has crossed the 100-mark. The BJP also became the first party to achieve the feat after 1988. After the recent round of election for the Upper House of Parliament held on Thursday, the saffron party tally now stands at 101. The BJP achieved this feat after winning four seats out of 13 for which polls were held on Thursday.

A day after saying that his wish to go to the Rajya Sabha was not fulfilled in his political career, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday clarified that he does not have any personal interest in going to the upper house of the Parliament. "Actually, the journalists had asked about my interest to go to the Rajya Sabha, and I replied to them that I don't have personal interest in it," he said.

Winning four Rajya Sabha seats from three northeastern states - Assam, Tripura and Nagaland, the BJP has increased its members' tally in the Upper House of the Parliament from the region. The elections for the two Rajya Sabha seats in Assam and one in Tripura were held on Thursday. BJP nominee S. Phangnon Konyak was elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Nagaland last Friday.

Later on Saturday evening, all the convicted persons were released on bail after furnishing an amount of Rs 25,000 each. After getting bail, Singh said that he has been falsely framed in the case, and he will challenge the decision in the high court. Three other accused in the case were acquitted in the absence of appropriate evidence against them.

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday paid tributes to freedom fighters Sardar Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev who laid down their lives on this day in 1931. It observed silence as a mark of respect to the brave martyrs. When the House assembled this morning, Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu said that these martyrs, who were in their early 20s

Sources say that during the meet with senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday, Gandhi assured him that prominent roles will be given to the leaders and nobody will be ignored, as she will be meeting leaders of election-going states starting from Himachal Pradesh. According to the sources, Azad is likely to be sent to the upper house while Anand Sharma, whose term expires on April 2, will be given important role in the Assembly polls

Former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, AAP's Punjab affairs co-in-charge Raghav Chadha, party's election strategist in Punjab, Sandeep Pathak, Lovely Professional University (LPU) Chancellor Ashok Kumar Mittal and Ludhiana's eminent industrialist Sanjeev Arora filed nomination for the Rajya Sabha seats from AAP in the Punjab legislative Assembly. All the candidates filed their nomination papers in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

 Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday expressed concern over the low attendance of members in the Parliamentary standing committee meetings and also called for a productive second part of the Budget session. Referring to the first part of the Budget session, he said that the first half had a good productivity of around 101.40 per cent, adding that the members should attend the proceedings of the House to make it more productive.