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| | The Hindu : Kerala / Alappuzha News : `Consider Dalit candidate for Rajya Sabha poll' |
 | | The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) general secretary Kodikkunil Suresh has said that the vacant seat to the Rajya Sabha from the State should be given to a Dalit leader from the Congress. | | | The Congress and the CPI(M) had not sent any Dalit MP to the Rajya Sabha from the State after the late Congress leader T.K.C. Vaduthala and P.K. Kunjachan of the CPI(M), Mr. | | | Suresh said that he had requested the Congress high command to nominate a Dalit leader as the Congress candidate to the vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Kerala. |
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| | The Hindu : Karnataka News : Two outsiders sent to Rajya Sabha from State |
| | The elections to the Rajya Sabha from the Legislative Assembly held today was, in short, the election of candidates from three of the four southern States — Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. | | | It was the Congress that was the first to field leaders from outside the State for election to the Lok Sabha. | | | In September 1978, Indira Gandhi was elected to the Lok Sabha from Chikmagalur. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/06/29/stories/2004062907750400.htm
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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion |
| | Like the Senate in the US, the Rajya Sabha is supposed to articulate the interests of the states. | | | The most recent example of this is the sharp question the Supreme Court put before the Rajya Sabha, which has a number of members who have been elected from states to which they do not belong. | | | The court stayed elections to the upper house because of this unconstitutional practice. |
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040606/asp/opinion/story_3336122.asp
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News |
| | NEW DELHI, NOV 24—The diqualification of Barjinder Singh Hamdard, an Independent member of the Rajya Sabha from Punjab, is delicately balanced as the matter is in the court of Union External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh in his capacity as the Leader of the House of Elders. | | | Sources said a forerunner for the Rajya Sabha seat is former union minister of state Sukhbir Singh Badal,who lost the Faridkot seat during the previous general election. | | | He had made his position clear by sending a letter of resignation to the Vice-President, Mr Krishan Kant, who is the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. |
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| | RS entry by hook or by crook - Deccan Herald |
| | The day Singh who, according to BJP sources was rewarded with the Rajya Sabha nomination for sacrificing his Bulandshahr seat for BJP strongman and former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh, arrived in Bhubaneswar, he was immediately greeted by a demonstration in front of the State BJP headquarters by activists of a local organisation, Kalinga Sena. | | | For Laloo Prasad Yadav, the biennial Rajya Sabha election was an opportunity to promote his “sala party”. | | | Annadurai made it to the Rajya Sabha in 1963 after losing the Assembly election the previous year to a little known bus operator from the Congress. |
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jun272004/sl1.asp
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| | Arjun, Fotedar set for Rajya Sabha entry |
| | Party president Sonia Gandhi has reportedly conveyed her decision to Chief Minister Digvijay Singh as the elections to the Rajya Sabha are due in May-end. | | | Of the five members to be elected from the State, three would be from the Congress. | | | BHOPAL, March 27: After tasting defeat in the recent Lok Sabha elections, Congress leaders are now scrambling for a Rajya Sabha berth. |
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| | AllRefer.com - India - Lok Sabha - Rajya Sabha Indian Information Resource |
| | In the 1991 elections, Congress (I) won 37.6 percent of the vote and 42 percent of the seats. | | | The number of seats allocated to each state and territory is determined on the basis of relative population, except that smaller states and territories are awarded a larger share than their population justifies. | | | For a variety of reasons, elections are sometimes not held in all constitutiencies, leaving some seats vacant and giving the appearance of fewer seats in the lower house. |
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| | Militants slit throats of engineer, brother; Dacoits loot train in Gaya; Cong Rajya Sabha nominations rejected again; ... |
| | Their disqualification would have a bearing on Monday's Rajya Sabha elections for the two seats from the state in which Ajay Chautala, a son of Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala, was set for a comfortable win while Congress' Kiran Chaudhary and independent Tarlochan Singh, Chairman of National Minorities Commission, were precariously placed. | | | Their decision came after the returning officer for Rajya Sabha election in the state rejected again the papers of two Congress nominees. | | | Meanwhile, the Congress has said that it would appeal to the Election Commission to countermand the Rajya Sabha polls and issue a fresh notification for biennial elections for 11 seats from Uttar Pradesh. |
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http://www.indiatraveltimes.com/news/news2004/june04/june2504_news.html
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| | The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation |
| | Among the better known names who have made it to the Rajya Sabha from states where they do not reside are several BJP and Congress leaders. | | | New Delhi, April 28: The “unconstitutional” practice of sending persons to the Rajya Sabha from states they do not belong to today came under the scrutiny of the Supreme Court. | | | BJP chief M. Venkaiah Naidu, who belongs to Andhra Pradesh, has been elected to the House from Karnataka; and former BJP chief K. Jana Krishnamurthy, who belongs to Tamil Nadu, has been elected from Rajasthan. |
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040429/asp/nation/story_3186460.asp
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| | Rajya Sabha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Rajya Sabha (House of States) is the upper house of the federal parliament of India. | | | In the case of conflicting legislation a joint sitting of the two houses is held. | | | This house elects a Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha from among its members, and this person then takes care of the day-to-day matters (in theory when the chairman is absent). |
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| | Elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats on June 21 : HindustanTimes.com |
| | Biennial elections to fill 57 vacancies in the Rajya Sabha will be held June 21, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. | | | Elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats to be held on June 21 | | | Some of the retiring members elected to the Lok Sabha recently are Suresh Pachauri, Ram Gopal Yadav, SS Dhindsa and Kapil Sibal. |
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| | SC stays election process for Rajya Sabha- The Times of India |
| | Prior to the amendment, which came into force from August 2003, a person had to be a resident of a particular state to be elected to the Rajya Sabha from there. | | | NEW DELHI: In a significant development, the Supreme Court on Friday restrained the Election Commission from issuing a notification for filling 66 vacancies in the Rajya Sabha. | | | The bench, however, gave liberty to the chief election commissioner to seek modification of the order before the next vacation bench. |
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Moopanar resigns from Rajya Sabha |
| | Moopanar's not quitting his Rajya Sabha seat, won on the Congress ticket, was seen as one reason for the Left parties not entertaining his prime ministerial candidature when H D Deve Gowda bowed out in April. | | | Tamil Maanila Congress supremo G K Moopanar and two of his party colleagues -- Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Jayanti Natarajan and TMC General Secretary S Peter Alphonse -- have resigned their Rajya Sabha seats, which were won on a Congress ticket. | | | Though legal advice gave the party a fair chance of success if it wanted the three leaders to continue in Parliament, it was found politically expedient for Moopanar and others not to lose the case or present themselves as office-seekers in the eyes of Tamil Nadu voters. |
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| | INDOlink - India General News - Apex Court Vacates Stay On Rajya Sabha Election |
| | The elections, to be held on June 21, will cover 65 Rajya Sabha seats, including five that fell vacant after the members either resigned or were elected to the Lok Sabha. | | | On June 4, the court had stayed the process after former Rajya Sabha member and leading civil liberties activist Kuldeep Nayar submitted a petition challenging recent amendments to the election procedure. | | | New Delhi, June 9 (NNN): The Supreme Court on Wednesday finally lifted its interim order staying the election of 65 members to the Rajya Sabha, covering cover 14 states. |
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| | NEW DELHI: The Vajpayee Government is all set to lose in the voting to be held in the Rajya Sabha after a discussion on Monday on an Opposition-sponsored motion for resignation of the three Babri Mosque demolition-tainted Ministers as the ruling combine of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is 32 seats short of a majority. | | | The Congress leaders, however, point out that the resolution specifically calls for resignation of Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti from the Union Cabinet and as such these ministers will be left with no alternative but to resign in deference to the Rajya Sabha's decision. | | | "Only the Lok Sabha can unseat the government and our stand has been already endorsed by the Lok Sabha defeating the Opposition's attempt to censure us," the BJP leaders affirm. |
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| | GN Online: Babri row shifts to Rajya Sabha |
| | Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition survived a censure motion in the Lok Sabha (lower house) on Thursday, defeating an opposition bid to force out three ministers accused of complicity in the 1992 razing of a 16th-century mosque. | | | Under India's parliamentary system, Vajpayee's council of ministers is answerable to the lower house, but a defeat in the upper house would be embarrassing. | | | GN Online: Babri row shifts to Rajya Sabha |
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| | Article: Long list of aspirants for Rajya Sabha tickets |
| | Apart from regular six vacancies of Rajya Sabha seats, election is being held for the vacancy caused by the sudden death of Congress leader K M Khan. | | | Andhra Pradesh is going for Rajya Sabha election on June 21 and the last date for nominations is June 11. | | | Congress party in Andhra Pradesh is poised to get effectively five Rajya Sabha seats and as usual many senior leaders are in to the business of lobbying for the tickets. |
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http://www.greatandhra.com/articles/rajya_ticket.html
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News |
| | Former Deputy Chairperson of Rajya Sabha Najma Heptullah files nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections in presence of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia in Jaipur on Wednesday. | | | Meanwhile, the BJP today declared Delhi hotelier Lalit Suri will be an Independent candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh and the party would support his candidature. | | | The Congress, which has the required strength to send one member to the Rajya Sabha, has nominated retired bureaucrat Radhakant Nayak for the post. |
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| | Industrial Economist - the business magazine from South - POLITICS |
| | Look at the nominations made by the state's political parties for the six seats in the Rajya Sabha that were recently filled up. | | | The Congress, which can win one seat, chose E M S Nachiappan who was a former member of Lok Sabha who withdrew in favour of P Chidambaram to contest the Sivaganga seat. | | | Three of these —T T V Dinakaran, S Anbazhagan and N R Govindarajar — were candidates defeated in the recent Lok Sabha elections. |
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| | The Hindu Business Line : Finance Minister's explanation in Rajya Sabha — `I had no knowledge of Nalini ... |
| | On his part, the Finance Minister told the Rajya Sabha that he had no knowledge of the Income Tax Department's move to engage his wife Ms Nalini Chidambaram as a special counsel in a case before the Madras High Court. | | | Finance Minister's explanation in Rajya Sabha — `I had no knowledge of Nalini Chidambaram's appointment by I-T Dept as special counsel' | | | Mr Shekhawat, however, said that the Opposition must have raised an objection on this issue when the Minister started reading his statement. |
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| | Indiantelevision dot com's Breaking News : CAS passage on 10 December, asserts Swaraj |
| | Asked whether she will be present during the introduction of CAS in the Rajya Sabha on 10 December as she is slated to tour the state of Gujarat from 8 December as part of election campaigning, Swaraj shot back, "But I am back in Delhi on the morning of 10 December." | | | A senior RS partyman of the CPM, Nilotpaul Basu, had told indiantelevision.com recently that his party is for CAS to be referred to a parliamentary panel for more discussion on the issue. | | | NEW DELHI: Information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj has done it again. |
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| | Kavita Suri's Column |
| | Still, though, the biggest surprise in these Rajya Sabha elections from Jammu and Kashmir remained in the fact that all the three main political parties — the Congress, PDP and National Conference evolved a consensus on the polls.Afterall, the parties who were daggers drawn in recent assembly polls,how they get together for these four seats? | | | However, this move surprised everybody despite the fact that the state Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad had earlier dropped enough hints that his party would not be a stumbling block in Dr Farooq Abdullah's sailing to Rajya Sabha. | | | Earlier, he was elected to the Upper House of the Parliament in 1996. |
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| | INDOlink - India General News - MS Gill, Tohra Elected To Rajya Sabha From Punjab |
| | The five Rajya Sabha seats from Punjab were falling vacant on April 9 after the retirement of Ashwini Kumar (Congress), Lala Lajpat Rai (BJP), Tohra, Sukhbir Singh Badal and Sukhdev Singh Libra (Shiromani Akali Dal). | | | Gill, Ashwini Kumar and Dharampal Sabharwal (all Congress) and Tohra and Virender Singh Bajwa (Shiromani Akali Dal) were elected unopposed, Returning Officer-cum-Vidhan Sabha Secretary NS Mavi said in Chandigarh. | | | Earlier, Punjab Congress Chief HS Hanspal, who had filed his nomination papers as a covering candidate for Gill, withdrew from the contest. |
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| | rediff.com: Seven nominations for six Rajya Sabha seats in AP |
| | Four Telugu Desam Party candidates and two Congress nominees filed their nomination papers on Thursday for elections to the six Rajya Sabha seats from Andhra Pradesh. | | | Seven nominations for six Rajya Sabha seats in AP | | | A party needs 42 first preferential votes to win a Rajya Sabha seat. |
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Moopanar not to seek re-election to Rajya Sabha |
| | Tamil Maanila Congress President G K Moopanar on Tuesday said he had decided not to seek re-election to the Rajya Sabha the very day he had submitted his resignation since he felt his contribution to Parliament during his 15 years there was not much. | | | Since DMK president and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had openly pledged support to the three TMC nominees to the Rajya Sabha, any other arrangement could be misunderstood, Moopanar added. | | | Moopanar said he had sought the Pondicherry Rajya Sabha seat from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and offered to give the seat he himself had vacated to the DMK. |
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| | Backdoor to the Parliament called "Rajya Sabha" :: Suniti :: Towards better governance |
| | While making provision for Rajya Sabha, our founding fathers clearly envisioned that the Rajya Sabha would act as council of states. | | | Posted by: manish on Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 01:58 PM In the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, there are many candidates who are contesting elections outside of there home states. | | | Members of which would work to serve the best interest of the states they come from. |
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| | CITU Gen-Sec For Rajya Sabha |
| | THE CPI(M) has nominated Chittabrata Majumdar, the all-India general secretary of the CITU to contest for the Rajya Sabha seat that fell vacant when Pranab Mukherjee of Congress was elected a member of the Lok Sabha in the recent Lok Sabha elections. | | | Meeting later, the state secretariat of the CPI(M) resolved that Majumdar would contest from the seat. | | | In a meeting held earlier, the Bengal Left Front decided that the CPI(M) would contest the vacant Rajya Sabha seat. |
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| | rediff.com: Nanda's nomination for Rajya Sabha rejected |
| | Nanda's nomination papers for both the biennial elections and the by-poll have been rejected on the ground that his residential address in Uttar Pradesh, as required under laws, was found to be bogus by the Returning Officer R P Pandey, sources said. | | | 13 nominations for 11 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh | | | The nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha election of arms dealer and candidate of rebel Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, Suresh Nanda, was rejected on Monday. |
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| | RAJYA SABHA |
| | Shri Bibhuti Mishra who is a senior Congress member has made a statement to this effect in Lok Sabha. | | | On the 31st March, 1973, Shri V. Sakhlecha, a member, sought to raise | | | Shri Mishra has moved a private member's resolution for abolition of the Rajya Sabha in which he has stated that the Rajya Sabha is a centre of political corruption. |
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| | The Hindu : Other States / Haryana News : Ajay Singh Chautala elected to Rajya Sabha |
| | He said it was a "major setback" for the Congress which was "blatantly indulging in engineering defections." He thanked the Supreme Court for ratifying the Speaker's ruling by not allowing the six MLAs to vote. | | | The Hindu : Other States / Haryana News : Ajay Singh Chautala elected to Rajya Sabha | | | The ruling Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate, Ajay Singh Chautala, and the INLD-BJP supported Independent candidate, Tarlochan Singh, won the two Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana, elections for which were held today amid tight security. |
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| | Sanjay Nirupam quits Rajya Sabha:- - India News - Webindia123.com |
| | Nirupam had a year left of his second term in the upper house of parliament. | | | New Delhi, March 16 : Sanjay Nirupam, who had to quit the Shiv Sena after falling out with party chief Bal Thackeray, Wednesday resigned from the Rajya Sabha. | | | "I have tendered my resignation from the Rajya Sabha," Nirupam told reporters here. |
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| | Lok Sabha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The members of the Lok Sabha elect a Speaker of Lok Sabha who is responsible for the conduct of business of the body, and also a Deputy Speaker to preside during the Speaker's absence. | | | The membership of Lok Sabha is distributed among the states and union territories so as to ensure proper representation of the population of the states. | | | The Lok Sabha holds equal legislative power with the Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, except in the area of Money Bills in which case the Lok Sabha has the ultimate authority. |
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| | Punjab water row: Turmoil in Rajya Sabha |
| | The protest on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha was led by senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj. | | | Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat sought to pacify the agitated members saying the Leader of the Opposition Jaswant Singh is meeting the prime minister to discuss the issue. | | | The Punjab Termination of Agreement Bill 2004, moved by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, was passed by the House after a discussion lasting over one-and-a-half hours at a specially convened one-day session. |
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| | Yashwant elected to Rajya Sabha - Deccan Herald |
| | Former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Assembly Stephen Marandi were elected unopposed in the biennial Rajya Sabha elections in the State. | | | The candidature of Mr Sinha who lost to CPI’s Bhuneshwar Mehta in the Lok Sabha election from Hazaribag was seconded by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) while Mr Marandi was a joint candidate put up by the opposition parties in the state. | | | Only Mr Sinha and Mr Marandi were in the fray for the two Rajya Sabha seats in the State after the time to file nomination papers ended on Thursday. |
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| | M2 Presswire: Rajya Sabha -- Nuclear energy capacity raised to 1320 MW.@ HighBeam Research |
| | This was stated in the Rajya Sabha today by Minister for State in the Department of Atomic Energy, Smt. | | | Rajya Sabha -- Nuclear energy capacity raised to 1320 MW. | | | M2 PRESSWIRE-24 February 2000-INDIAN GOVERNMENT: Rajya Sabha -- Nuclear energy capacity raised to 1320 MW (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD |
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| | Suresh Kalmadi - Pune M.P. RAJYA SABHA |
| | During his terms at the Rajya Sabha he has also served on important committees. | | | Kalmadi been a member of the Rajya Sabha continuously for the last 22 years. | | | 1986 Member, Committee on Subordinate Legislation (Rajya Sabha) |
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| | SC stays Rajya Sabha polls process- The Times of India |
| | NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented order, the Supreme Court on Friday temporarily stalled the process for electing 60 members to Rajya Sabha as it asked the Election Commission not issue the statutory notification, and if it had been passed, it should not be enforced. | | | A vacation Bench of Justices Ruma pal and B N Agrawal issued notice to EC on columnist and former Rajya Sabha MP Kuldip Nayar's writ petition challenging the 2002 amendment which introduced open ballot system for the Council of States elections. | | | As EC has already written to the President about the election process and that the notification was due on Friday itself, the Bench in its interim order said "if the notification is not published in the gazette, it shall not be published and if it is already published, it shall not be given effect to". |
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| | Mayawati, Ambani in Rajya Sabha |
| | Meanwhile, the election of BJP’s Dushyant Singh, the son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, to the Lok Sabha from the state’s Jhalawar constituency has been challenged in the Rajasthan High Court on the grounds that official machinery was allegedly misused in his favor. | | | Congress candidate Sanjay Gurjar, who lost to Dushyant, filed a petition in the High Court alleging misuse of official machinery at the direction of the chief minister. | | | NEW DELHI, 27 June 2004 — All 11 candidates for the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh were yesterday elected unopposed. |
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| | Rajya Sabha to take up cable Bill next week- The Economic Times |
| | NEW DELHI: The fate of the controversial Cable Amendment Bill is likely to be decided in Rajya Sabha where it is expected to be taken up next week, despite stiff opposition from the Congress and Left parties. | | | The Bill was passed by Lok Sabha during the Budget Session but is pending in the Opposition-dominated Rajya Sabha. | | | Congress and Left parties are opposing the Bill saying it is "anti-consumer" and feel that the government should not be deciding on the number and rates of free-to-air channels. |
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| | Anil Ambani to stand for Rajya Sabha- The Economic Times |
| | Ambani filed his nomination papers before the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha principal secretary RP Pandey. | | | Reliance group vice-chairman Anil Ambani on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections as an independent candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party. | | | Ambani's closeness to the SP general secretary is well known and he is in fact a member of the State Development Council headed by Singh. |
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| | Rajya Sabha Approval for Companies Bill - Indlaw News |
| | It was cleared unanimously after objections raised by some members were withdrawn. | | | This Bill had been tabled in the Lok Sabha last December but was referred to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs for comments. | | | The Rajya Sabha on Thursday gave its approval to the Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2000. |
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| | - the Returning Officer (by convention the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha and the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha are appointed in rotation as Returning Officer), appointed by the Election Commission in consultation with the Central Government, supervises the voting | | | - the Vice-President of India is ex officio chairman of the Rajya Sabha - is elected before the expiration of the previous term by Members of an Electoral College consisting of Members of both Houses | | | - the Secretary General makes announcements concerning the Rajya Sabha |
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| | Former TDP Rajya Sabha MP Jayaprada joins SP : HindustanTimes.com |
| | Cine star and former TDP Rajya Sabha MP Jayaprada on Tuesday joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. | | | Jaya said she was impressed by the policies pursued by Yadav and his leadership qualities and did not eye any post and power. | | | Former TDP Rajya Sabha MP Jayaprada joins SP Press Trust of India |
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| | Indiantelevision dot com's Breaking News : Rajya Sabha keeps CAS discussion pending |
| | The I&B minister also laid some papers on the table of the House, but they did not pertain to CAS. | | | At the time of getting CAS listed on the agenda of Rajya Sabha last week, the government had also said that there would a three-hour discussion on the issue. | | | The Opposition dominated Rajya Sabha has been saying that there should be a discussion on CAS before it is okayed by the House. |
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| | Battlelines being drawn for Rajya Sabha fight over Bihar |
| | On Wednesday, the Congress challenged the Vajpayee Government to | | | Sabha to defeat the Bihar's President rule resolution, the | | | Defeat of any government bill or resolution in the Rajya Sabha |
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| | Text of Natwar Singh's statement in Rajya Sabha:- - India News - Webindia123.com |
| | New Delhi, March 4 : The following is the text of Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh's statement in Rajya Sabha on his visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan and developments in Nepal. | | | Text of Natwar Singh's statement in Rajya Sabha:- | | | Text of Natwar Singh's statement in Rajya Sabha:- - India News - Webindia123.com |
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| | Indian nationality law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An Overseas Citizen of India will not enjoy the following rights even if resident in India: (i) the right to vote, (ii) the right to hold the offices of President, Vice-President, Judge of Supreme Court and High Court, Member of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Legislative Assembly or Council, (iii) appointment to Public Services (Government Service). | | | It will entitle the Overseas citizen of India to visit the country at any time for any length of time and for any purpose. | | | Although Overseas Citizenship of India is not a full citizenship of India, it is a form of Indian nationality. |
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