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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
A part of the unanimous resolution that the Lok Sabha adopted on September 1, 1997 at the conclusion of a special session convened to mark 50 years of India’s Independence may now sound like an idealistic formulation from a classical parliamentary...
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News Source: Hindu
| 5 months ago
Meira Kumar, the new Speaker of the Lok Sabha, said in an interview here on Saturday. Her opinion was sought in the context of the stand taken by Sushma Swaraj, the Deputy Leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha...Swaraj had contended...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
Bharatiya Janata Party’s tribal leader from Jharkhand Karia Munda has emerged as the consensus candidate for the post of Deputy Speaker. At 3.15 p.m. on Friday, when the time for submitting ‘motions’ seeking the election of a person to the...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Indian politics has traditionally been a male-dominated bastion. But, the past five years has witnessed a major shift as more and more women are foraying into politics, with three leading ladies -- Sonia Gandhi, Pratibha Patil and Meira Kumar -- now...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Starting with Mahatma Gandhi, then all the other memorials of great men, and also of my father. I have come to pay my respects," said Meira Kumar. Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had termed Meira Kumar's election as momentous in the nation's...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
The former Lok Sabha Speaker, who met Congress President Gandhi and patched up with her ten years after raking up the issue of her foreign origin, on Saturday said that "the question of my joining the Congress does not arise at all". He was reacting...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
The election of Meira Kumar as India's first woman and Dalit speaker figured in the Canadian parliament on Friday, with Indian-origin MP Deepak Obhrai describing it as a 'miracle' of Indian democracy. Obhrai, 58, who as the parliamentary secretary to...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
BJP nominee Karia Munda is all set to be unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the 15th Lok Sabha on Monday. According to sources, 13 sets of nominations — the same as for the Speaker's election — were submitted to Lok Sabha secretary general P D...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
And this 'new' attitude won the party appreciation from its critics. Leader of the opposition LK Advani said the 15th Lok Sabha could well open a new chapter of co-operation between the government and opposition. "It will be the beginning of a new...
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News Source: Times of India
| 5 months ago
The Manmohan Singh government is set to correct three `mistakes' made in ministry-making, as it moves to conclude the inaugural session of 15th Lok Sabha. The biggest anomaly came in the form of MoS rank to Srikant Jena. He has been a Cabinet...