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• Advani steps down as Lok Sabha Opposition Party Leader

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani stepped down as leader of opposition and handed over the responsibility to Sushma Swaraj.In the BJP parliamentary party meeting Advani was elected as Chairman of party’s parliamentary wing.With this 57 year old Vidisha M P- Sushma ...
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• Advani hands over reins to Sushma Swaraj (Lead)

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Friday handed over the baton of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to Sushma Swaraj and assumed charge as the first chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party.The Parliamentary Party earlier unanimously amended its constitution to enable ...
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• Sushma Swaraj to take over as Leader of Opposition

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Sushma Swaraj will take over as Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha from L.K. Advani, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formally announced Friday.BJP chief Rajnath Singh moved a resolution to amend the constitution at the meeting of the parliamentary party Friday evening to pave the way for ...
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• Advani to pass on baton to become BJP’s mentor

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Heralding a generational change in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), veteran leader L.K. Advani is set to relinquish his post as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha to don the role of party’s mentor.Party sources said Advani is likely to quit his post as the Leader [...]
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• Advani to resign, BJP all set for a generation leap

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (ANI): In what could be considered as a plan for the future, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to change the party’s leadership. Senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani, who is also the leader of opposition in Parliament, may resign on Friday from his post making way for Sushma [...]
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• India to raise gurdwara land transfer with Pakistan: Krishna

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) India will take up with Pakistan the reported transfer of 150 acres of gurdwara land in Lahore for a military housing project, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said Friday.“We will certainly take it up with the concerned authorities in Pakistan,” Krishna said in the Rajya Sabha after ...
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• Walkout in Lok Sabha against ‘undemocratic’ UPA

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Left and Samajwadi Party, which provides outside support to the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), walked out of Lok Sabha Friday to protest the government’s “undemocratic” ways ofpassing “important and controversial bills”. ...
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• Film stars took a backseat in Jharkhand elections

  
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  By Nityanand ShuklaRanchi, Dec 18 (IANS) This was one election where movie stars took a back seat compared to seasoned politicians. Political parties in Jharkhand felt that actors do not necessarily fetch votes.As Jharkhand voted for the fifth and final round to elect a new assembly Friday, political activists said ...
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• Key changes in offing in BJP parliamentary party

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Ushering in a generational change in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior party leader L.K. Advani is likely to resign as Leader of Opposition at the BJP parliamentary party meeting here Friday.Party sources said that the BJP constitution is expected to be amended to create a post of ...
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• Delhi government gets a year to improve infrastructure

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Delhi government Thursday got an additional year to improve urban infrastructure and deal with issue like illegal commercial structures in residential areas with parliament passing the necessary legislation.The Rajya Sabha unanimously approved the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws ...
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• BJP to decide on next president Dec 19

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary board is scheduled to meet Dec 19 to decide on the next president of the party.According to party sources, the parliamentary board is expected to formally select Maharashtra BJP chief Nitin Gadkari as the new president. Gadkari’s name has been ...
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• Telangana, Headley, women’s quota share space in parliament (Parliament Roundup)

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the creation of Telangana forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha Thursday while in the Rajya Sabha, the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) found common cause on the Headley saga and asked the government to make clear its stand on the case [...]
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• Clarify matters on Headley, opposition urges PM (Lead)

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) found common cause in the Rayja Sabha Thursday when it asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to clarify matters on the US’ cooperation in unravelling the alleged involvement of Pakistan American David Coleman Headley in the 26/11 Mumbai terror ...
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• Justice Dinakaran not to hear court cases

  
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  Bangalore, Dec 17 (ANI): Facing an impeachment motion in Rajya Sabha, Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran who is flooded with the alleged charges of corruption and land encroachment will not be hearing any court cases till further orders.According to the notification issued by the High Court Registrar ...
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• Samajwadi coming closer to us, says Left

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) For the first time after their bitter parting of ways before the Lok Sabha election, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Wednesday that the Samajwadi Party was coming closer to the Left.“Samajwadi Party is coming very closer to us,” said CPI-M leader Basudeb Acharia after MPs ...
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• Price rise puts government on the mat (Second Lead)

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) With potatoes costing twice as much since the past year and high onion prices bringing tears to housewives, galloping inflation has become a major embarassment for the government with the opposition stalling parliamentary proceedings Wednesday, resulting in the adjournment of the Lok Sabha for ...
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• Goa BJP asks Congress MP to apologise for rape comment

  
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  Panaji, Dec 16 (IANS) The Goa state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday demanded a public apology from the state’s lone Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik for his controversial comments on rape.Addressing a press conference, party spokesperson Govind Parvatkar said the Congress MP had defamed Goa’s ...
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• Jharkhand parties explore alliance possibilities

  
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  Ranchi, Dec 16 (IANS) Fearing a hung assembly, Jharkhand’s political parties have begun to woo fresh allies in order to form a new government.Most political pundits believe that no single party or pre-poll alliance is likely to get a majority in the 81-member legislature.So even as they take on one another in the ...
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• Opposition parties come out strongly against privatisation

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Trade unions will be forced to intensify their agitation if the government does not fulfil their demands, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Wednesday, strongly protesting rising prices and privatisation of state-run firms.“There is a strike against merger of banks and ...
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• Lok Sabha adjourned till tomorrow over price rise issue

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 16 (ANI): The Lok Sabha was today adjourned till Thursday over the price rise debate.Members belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Left Parties, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Biju Janata Dal shouted slogans inside the House, saying, “Check price rise or Change the ...
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