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Punjab Police orders withdrawal of security cover of 184 ex-ministers and former MLAs

Prominent among those who stand to lose their security cover are former ministers Surjit Kumar Rakhra, Sucha Singh Chottepur, Bibi Jagir Kaur, Madan Mohan Mittal, Tota Singh, and Gulzar Singh Ranike

Arvind Kejriwal asks AAP MLAs in Punjab to work with dedication and honesty for welfare of people in the state

The Delhi chief minister was addressing his party's newly-elected legislators of Punjab through video conferencing. It was his first interaction with them after the formation of the AAP government in the state

High Court sanction must before withdrawing cases against legislators, orders apex court

The order comes in response to a 2016 PIL filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay on fast-tracking criminal trials against lawmakers and banning convicted politicians from contesting polls

Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa dismisses resignation rumours, says met PM to discuss state issues

Repeated open remarks by some disgruntled Karnataka BJP leaders targeting Yediyurappa had spurred rumours that the top leadership might remove him as Karnataka CM

Day after two Congress MLAs quit, yet another Grand Old Party legislator resigns ahead of Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat

In a fresh jolt to the Congress ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat, its MLA Brijesh Merja on Friday resigned from the Assembly membership, becoming the third legislator of the opposition party to quit this week.

In major blow to Congress, two more party MLAs resign from Gujarat Assembly ahead of Rajya Sabha polls

In a major blow to the opposition Congress ahead of the 19 June Rajya Sabha polls for four seats from the state, two-party MLAs have resigned as members of the Legislative Assembly.

Assam Assembly Winter Session: Congress and AIUDF stage protest, shout slogans against BJP govt over CAB, NRC

As soon as the House assembled, opposition Congress and AIUDF sought to raise the two contentious issues through an adjournment motion

MLA has right to resign, does not amount to defection: Speaker of Karnataka Assembly tells Supreme Court

The Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a lawmaker has the right to resign from his post and that the same would not amount to defection

Uttar Pradesh bears I-T burden of its MLAs with 'meagre earnings' of Rs 1.9 lakh a month; India's VVIP culture runs deeper than defunct red beacons

According to the affidavits filed by the candidates in the Legislative Assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, more than 80 percent of MLAs were multi-millionaire.

Karnataka-esque political catastrophes might be an exception if a strong anti-defection law is brought in soon

The seeds of the anti-defection law were sown much earlier — after the general elections in 1967. Back then Congress formed the government at the Centre, but its strength in Lok Sabha fell from 361 to 283 as during the year it lost control of seven state governments because the MLAs shifted their political allegiance.