Tag: Lok Sabha

  • Is Sania Mirza going to contest India’s Lok Sabha elections?

    Is Sania Mirza going to contest India’s Lok Sabha elections?

    Indian media has reported that Indian National Congress party is thinking about pitting famous tennis player Sania Mirza against All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi from Hyderabad in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The proposal came from former Indian cricket captain and Congress leader Mohammed Azharuddin.

    During a meeting held on Wednesday, the Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) discussed candidates for various states including Goa, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Daman and Diu. It is believed that Sania Mirza’s name was also discussed in this meeting.

    Experts suggest that Congress wants to use Sania Mirza’s popularity and fame to regain support in Hyderabad’s elections.
    The last time Congress won in Hyderabad was in 1980 with K S Narayan as the MP.

    Mohammed Azharuddin proposed Sania Mirza’s name for candidature, as there’s a close family connection between the two. Mohammed Asaddudin, the cricketer’s son, married Sania Mirza’s sister, Anam Mirza, in 2019.

    Azharuddin competed in the recent Telangana legislative assembly elections but lost to Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) Maganti Gopinath from the Jubilee Hills constituency by more than 16,000 votes.

    For this Lok Sabha election, BJP has chosen Madhavi Latha as its candidate, and BRS has put forward Gaddam Srinivas Yadav.
    The elections for the 543 parliamentary constituencies will happen in seven phases, starting on April 19 and ending on June 1.

  • Twitter in fits with reporting over jobless people’s attack on Indian parliament

    Twitter in fits with reporting over jobless people’s attack on Indian parliament

    Two unidentified persons were detained after they jumped into the lower house of Indian Parliament chamber, while the winter session of the Parliament was underway.

    The Delhi Police also arrested two other persons – a man and a woman from outside the Parliament, for protesting with coloured smoke.
    The incident took place as the country was commemorating the attack on Indian Parliament in 2001.

    As per Indian media reports, the culprits were seated in the visitors’ gallery and hiding the canisters in their shoes. Parliamentary members told journalists that the protestors raised slogans “Dictatorship will not be accepted”.

    Parliament security staff took the duo — identified as Sagar Sharma, 25, from Lucknow, and Manoranjan D, 35, from Mysore — into custody after they were beaten by MPs, reporters said.

    Two others — Neelam Singh, 42, from Hisar in Haryana and Amol Shinde, 25, from Latur in Maharashtra — were arrested from a spot near Parliament House where they too opened smoke canisters soon after the incident in Lok Sabha.

    The breach has shocked the lawmakers and nation alike.

    But the internet’s meme brigade made the most of it. One user posted the video of parliamentarians beating up the protestor and captioned it with a laughing emoji, “Who says India doesn’t have unity”.

    A user said, “Even my mobile pattern is more secure than the Indian Parliament.”

    Several others used clips from Bollywood and other movies to mock the security of the parliament.

    While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not in the parliament, critics lambasted his government for the lapse in security of a high-profile place like Lok Sabha.

    Another trolled the BJP parliamentarians shouting space out amid the attack of the intruders saying were they waiting for a “chota bheem” to save their day.

    However, reporting by different media outlets outside the parliament has Twitter in fits.

    Two reporters were seen fighting over the smoke canister while the third one took the benefit and ran away from the spot.

    A user mockingly suggested that these courageous reporters should be deployed on borders and the army should be given the task of reporting.

    Journalist Anil Tiwari commented that “Media students should learn from this video that besides reporting skills, surviving in the media industry may require abilities like snatching, punching, running, etc”.

    Using a Bollywood movie reference a netizen trolled the journalists fighting for a smoke canister.

    Amidst this laughing riot over the reporting, the lady reporter Pallavi Ghosh famous for her swift and aggressive reporting defended herself on Twitter by posting, “End of the day – yes the video looks funny but as a reporter on the ground my Instinct not to let go”

  • ‘Pakistan is our strategic partner’: US responds to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks

    ‘Pakistan is our strategic partner’: US responds to Rahul Gandhi’s remarks

    The United States (US) has responded to Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in the Indian parliament, Lok Sabha, that the policies adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have brought Pakistan and China closer.

    The US State Department spokesperson Ned Price refused to “endorse” such a statement on Washington’s behalf and said, “Pakistan is our strategic partner.”

    “I’ll let Pakistanis and the PRC (People’s Republic of China) speak for themselves about their relationship. These remarks will certainly not be endorsed by me,” Price said during a regular press briefing.

    The US said it values its relationship with Pakistan while emphasising that there was no requirement, as far as Washington was concerned, for other countries to choose between the US and China.

    “We’ve made the point all along that it is not a requirement for any country around the world to choose between the United States and China,” Ned Price told reporters when asked if Pakistan and China have become closer because “they feel abandoned” by the US.

    Rahul, while speaking in Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks on President’s address during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament on Wednesday, said, “India’s single most important strategic goal has been to keep China and Pakistan apart but what you have done has only brought them together.”

  • Senate chairman gets a surprise invite from India’s Lok Sabha’s speaker

    Speaker of the Indian Lok Sabha, Om Birla, has invited Pakistan’s Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to attend the Lower House’s Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) centenary celebrations in India, reports ARY News.

    Lok Sabha Speaker wrote a letter to Sanjrani. As per details, the letter states that the celebrations would take place on December 4, and Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi will address the audience.

    The letter adds that Sanjrani’s participation in the centenary celebrations would be an honour for the Lok Sabha Speaker.

    ARY News‘ sources say that consultations are underway regarding the participation of Sadiq Sanjrani in the function.