Politics

The lawmakers who joined the saffron party are Chandrakant Kavlekar, Atanasio Monserratte, Jeniffer Monserratte, Francis Silveira, Philip Nery Rodrigues, Cleaofacio Dias, Wilfred D'Sa, Nilkant Halarnkar, Isidor Fernandes and Antonio Fernandes.

Elections to 12 assembly is scheduled to take place in the state as many BJP MLAs who successfully contested Lok Sabha elections were elevated to the Parliament.

Another two rebel Congress MLAs, housing minister MTB Nagraj and K Sudhakar, who resigned Wednesday were likely to arrive in Mumbai during the night.

On his daylong visit to the constituency, Gandhi will meet Congress workers to ascertain the reasons behind the party's defeat with a margin of 55,000 votes.

A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took note of the submission of senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the rebel MLAs, and assured him that it will see whether their petition can be listed for an urgent hearing tomorrow.

The Congress leader said he would not move from outside the hotel as he wanted to meet his 'friends' who would eventually return to the coalition fold.

Karnataka Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar hinted that the MLAs might have to personally hand their resignations in adding, 'If everything can happen through postal correspondence, I am not required at all.'

Rahul Gandhi arrived in the House at noon. At that time Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was raising the Karnataka issue and accused the ruling party of "poaching" its MLAs in the state.

Participating in a debate on Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, Sukhbir said remittance of all resources and revenues collected from the union territory should be paid to Punjab, besides payment of a royalty to the state for the use of its water resources.

“Scindia is young, impartial in the party and has his own youthful charm,” Congress minister Pradyumn Singh Tomar said

As part of 'Mission 2023' of the BJP, Shah has asked the party's state unit to achieve 50 per cent vote share in next Assembly polls and ensure that the saffron party comes to power, Telangana BJP president K Laxman said.

As the rebel MLAs jetted off to Mumbai after putting in their resignation papers, the Congress and JDS leaders have a strategic time-out of three days to tackle the situation.

Nine MLAs of the Congress and three of the JD(S) reached Speaker Ramesh Kumar's office to put in their papers on Saturday, and later met Governor Vajubhai Vala at the Raj Bhavan. One Congress MLA had resigned earlier this week.

BJP media head and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni asserted that his party had no role in the spate of resignations by the ruling alliance MLAs in Karnataka which has raised questions over the survival of the HD Kumaraswamy-led government.

Singh said that the Congress is unclear as to who is party president and whether there was going to be any president. He also added even after a massive mandate the attitude of the BJP-NDA did not change.

The minister claimed that if a farmer’s son or daughter goes to school in bus or any other vehicle, the fare is bound to increase after the price hike.