Politics

"When I was CM, there was one woman member in my cabinet but unfortunately there is none in the present Delhi government. There is more of talk but less of action," she said.

She noted that it was due to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's vision that women accounted today for over 40 per cent of elected local body and panchayat posts.

Kishore had successfully managed general elections for Narendra Modi in 2014 before achieving stupendous results for the JD(U) and grand alliance in Bihar to emerge as an election strategist of repute.

The BJP high command is worried over the possibility of DMDK going with the DMK-led alliance in the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly election.

Balakrishna, a TDP MLA from Hindupur constituency in Andhra Pradesh, is the brother-in-law of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

Three seats from Kerala will fall vacant in the Upper House as the terms of Congress leader Antony, CPI-M leaders T N Seema and K N Balagopal are due to expire in March.

A cross on the list of candidates depicts the voter's decision not to vote for any candidate. The cross is a universal sign denoting disapproval. This makes the Nota symbol easy to recognise and remember.

Rahul claimed that Swaraj was not consulted on Pakistan policy and Rajnath Singh was unaware of Nagaland accord.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also questioned the CBI probe into the alleged fake encounter, in which Ishrat and her aides were killed, alleging that the entire government machinery was abused.

Reacting to Katheria's remarks, Leader of the Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) had plans to divide the country.

Chidambaram, a former union minister, said institutions, universities are places where different ideas will have to come together and clash with each other.

At the outset, the BJP wanted to steer clear of the Dalit controversy and focus on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and the anti-national slogans allegedly raised at JNU. But as the debate progressed, Dalits became the central point of the discussion.

Singh appeared before the Special District and Sessions Judge Kashinath Singh.

Slamming Chidambaram, who was the Union home minister when Guru's mercy plea was rejected in 2011, Thakur said, "What did he do to stop it?"

Members of Congress and the CPI(M) objected to the Chair for "selectively" allowing some members to speak.