NEW DELHI: 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.

Thiruvananthapuram: Five Rajya Sabha members from Kerala are set to retire on completion of their terms by July.

PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed his desire that he would like to serve as a Rajya Sabha member one day, triggering massive speculation about his political future.

NEW DELHI: The Elders in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday demanded to release caste census data to provide Other Backward Classes reservations in the local bodies elections in the country.

CHANDIGARH:All five Punjab Rajya Sabha candidates, who were elected unopposed yesterday, have secured their certificates on Friday.Four candidates received their certificate themselves, while Harbhajan Singh's certificate received by his authorised representative Mr. Gulzar Inder Chahal.

NEW DELHI: Four Private Members Bills are likely to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Friday.

CHANDIGARH:All five Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates from Punjab for the equal number of Rajya Sabha seats were elected unopposed on Thursday, Returning Officer-cum-Assembly Secretary, Surinder Pal, said.

CHANDIGARH: On the last day of withdrawing nomination papers for Rajya Sabha Election Punjab 2022, today, no candidate withdrew nominations. Thus, all the five candidates, who had filed nominations for Biennial Election have been declared the winners unopposed.

NEW DELHI: Pitching for 'One nation, One election', BJP MP Dr D.P Vats on Thursday demanded that all the elections be held at the same time to prevent the national resources from draining.

PHILLAUR: Aam Aadmi Party has made a big issue of putting up
photos of Shaheed Bhagat Singh in government offices, but to pay him a
real tribute, the party should send a member of his family to Rajya
Sabha, said Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary on Monday as the
AAP declared the names of its candidates for election to the Upper
House of Parliament on Monday.

CHANDIGARH:Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju as the Observer for the upcoming Biennial Elections to the Council of States, scheduled to be held on March 31, 2022.

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had struck the first blow against Punjab and Punjabiat by nominating rank outsiders to the Rajya Sabha and in the process betrayed the people of the State who had taken them to their word of bringing in sweeping positive change and given them a massive mandate to implement the same.

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced the names of its candidates for the elections of five Rajya Sabha seats in Punjab. On Monday, 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 the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab Legislative Assembly. All the candidates filed their nomination papers in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena Member Priyanka Chaturvedi on Monday urged the health ministry to issue clear guidelines on the booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine for those under 60 years of age.

CHANDIGARH: As five Punjab vacancies have arisen due to the term of the Rajya Sabha MPs ending on April 9, the Aam Aadmi Party has shortlisted five of the seven candidates, which includes academician Sandeep Pathak, AAP’s Delhi MLA and national spokesperson Raghav Chadha and former spinner Harbhajan Singh Bhajji.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Congress has nominated Jeby Mather from the minority community as its Rajya Sabha member from the state.

NEW DELHI:CPI lawmaker Binoy Viswam on Monday gave a suspension of business notice under Rule 267 in the Rajya Sabha to discuss the decision of slashing EPFO interest rate to 8.1 per cent from 8.5 per cent, the lowest in the last 43 years.

CHANDIGARH: With the term of five members of the Rajya Sabha elected from the State of Punjab is due to expire in April 2022, Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced schedule for biennial Elections to the Council of States from the State of Punjab. The term of office of Rajya Sabha members including Sukhdev Singh, Partap Singh Bajwa, Shwait Malik, Naresh Gujral and Shamsher Singh Dullo elected from the State of Punjab is due to expire on their retirement on April 9, 2022.

Thiruvananthapuram: All eyes are on 81-year-old Congress veteran A.K. Antony whether he will get yet another term in the Upper House, as he along with two others are from Kerala -- K. Somaprasad (CPI-M) and M.V. Shreyams Kumar -- whose term ends on April 2. Elections to the three Rajya Sabha seats will be held on March 31.

NEW DELHI: The outcome of the five state elections will have an impact on the Presidential poll and will also bring some change in the Upper House of Parliament as except for Punjab the other four states were ruled by the BJP with brute majorities in UP and Uttarakhand.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the Congress Party had "throttled" democracy in 1975 and is now teaching the lesson of democracy to the BJP.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday came down heavily on the Congress saying that it could never think beyond its "dynasty", while praising NCP leader Sharad Pawar and TMC for attending the all-party meeting on Covid-19.

NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha on Monday resumed the debate on the 'Motion of Thanks' to the President's address.

NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed two bills as opposition boycotted the proceedings expressing solidarity with the suspended members. The opposition demanded the revocation of suspension, but the chair declined to do that and said that the leaders of the house and the opposition should sort out the issues between themselves.

CHANDIGARH:  Shri Anandpur Sahib MP and National Spokesperson of the Congress, Manish Tewari has sought representation for the union territory of Chandigarh in the Rajya Sabha, as it has remained unrepresented in the upper house so far.

NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Dam Safety Bill 2019 that provides for surveillance, inspection, operation, and maintenance of certain specified dams across the country with a provision of imprisonment up to two years, or a fine, or both, for an offence under it.

PANAJI: Former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro has been nominated for a Rajya Sabha berth by the All India Trinamool Congress, the party tweeted on Saturday.

KOLKATA: The induction of Babul Supriyo into the Trinamool Congress has quelled a lot of speculation in political circles of the state. The party with its ambitious plan to have its footprint at the national level wants to utilise Supriyo effectively and so the former BJP MP is likely to get a ticket to the Rajya Sabah in place of Arpita Ghosh.

 NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday announced dates for bypolls for Rajya Sabha for various states There are six casual vacancies in the Council of States while one seat from Puducherry is going for regular poll. A bypoll for the lone seat of legislative council in Bihar is also scheduled.

AMRITSAR: Charanjit Singh Gumtala president of Amritsar Vikas Manch said that the Anand Marriage Act introduced by the Union Government for Sikhs in the Rajya Sabha on May 7 is not a complete marriage act as it is for Hindus, Christians and Muslims. It would not be an exaggeration to call it the Lame Marriage Act.

NEW DELHI: Union minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday was appointed leader of the house in Rajya Sabha.In the coming monsoon session starting from July 19, Goyal will take the place of Thaawarchand Gehlot, who has been appointed governor of Karnataka.

Punjab News Express
NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu's nomination to the Rajya Sabha is not only expected to improve the BJP's prospects in next year's assembly polls in Punajb but the party is also expected to gain from his articulation of issues in the upper house.

PATNA: After having suffered a defeat in the election for Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly, the primary opposition party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is refusing to bow down to the ruling NDA government in the state and is preparing to give it a tough political fight. The RJD is now devising a different strategy for the Rajya Sabha elections.

NEW DELHI/PATIALA:Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab President and Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann has called on all Rajya Sabha MPs in the country to oppose the anti-agriculture bills passed by the Modi government in the Lok Sabha

NEW DELHI: The election to the post of Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha will be held on September 14, the day Parliament's Monsoon Session convenes.

NEW DELHI:The BJP on Wednesday nominated party spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam for the upcoming Rajya Sabha bypoll in Uttar Pradesh, necessitated by sitting member Amar Singh's death.

NEW DELHI:The Election Commission on Tuesday announced that polling for 55 Rajya Sabha seats set to be vacated in April will be held on March 26.

NEW DELHI:The day two of the 250th session of Rajya Sabha witnessed uproar over alleged police action against protesting JNU students and detention of political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the House chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to adjourn the proceedings till 2 P.M. on Tuesday.

PHAGWARA:  Veteran Freedom Fighter and former Rajya Sabha Member Mahinder Singh Saluja(96) breathed his last at the house of his grand son in Phagwara today.

Punjab News Express
NEW DELHI: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu's nomination to the Rajya Sabha is not only expected to improve the BJP's prospects in next year's assembly polls in Punajb but the party is also expected to gain from his articulation of issues in the upper house.