Two Congress legislators booked in Punjab

August 13th, 2009 SHIMLA - Noisy scenes were witnessed in the Himachal Pradesh assembly Thursday over Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal's provocative remarks against the opposition Congress. The trouble started when the Congress legislators disrupted the proceedings of the assembly immediately after question hour and demanded a debate over the construction of the party office here.

August 13th, 2009 RANCHI - Seven legislators Thursday lost membership of the Jharkhand assembly under the anti-defection law. Speaker Aalamgir Aalam finally passed his ruling in nine anti-defection cases, seven months after the hearings were completed.

July 23rd, 2009 RAIPUR - As many as 35 Congress legislators were suspended from the Chhattisgarh assembly Thursday for shouting slogans near the speaker's chair and disrupting the proceedings of the house. The suspension was revoked after 10 minutes.

June 12th, 2009 CHENNAI - A meeting of Congress leaders and legislators Saturday to discuss demanding of ministerial berths in the Tamil Nadu government has been postponed, a party source said Friday. The Congress gives outside support to the ruling DMK in the state.

June 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - The PMK, which had dumped the Congress before the Lok Sabha elections to join hands with the AIADMK, is now supporting the Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress in its demand for ministerial berths in the state government. PMK leader S.

May 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Nearly 65 percent polling was recorded for nine parliamentary seats in Punjab and one seat in Chandigarh Wednesday as the fifth and final round of voting ended. Punjab's Chief Electoral Officer Kusumjit Sidhu said the highest polling of 69 percent was recorded in the newly-created border constituency of Khadoor Sahib.

April 14th, 2009 TALWANDI SABO - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said that the benefits of several schemes launched by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government were not reaching the people of Punjab because of corruption in the state. 'The Manmohan Singh government has done a lot for the people.

April 7th, 2009 PUDUCHERRY - The PMK Tuesday withdrew support to the Congress government in the union territory of Puducherry, Raj Bhavan sources said. PMK chief M.

March 25th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - That Punjab is a colourful state with vibrant people is known. Equally colourful are the suffixes and pet names that some politicians are known by, even in public life.

March 17th, 2009 SHILLONG - The Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) government narrowly won the trust vote in the 60-member Meghalaya assembly Tuesday. The MPA got 28 votes, including the speaker's vote, while 27 legislators supported the Congress.

February 24th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Radical Sikh leader, Simranjit Singh Mann Tuesday demanded that Punjab be declared a 'buffer state' with its own independent government, given its sensitive location between India and Pakistan. Addressing media here, Mann, who also heads the Akali Dal (Amritsar) said: 'We want peace to prevail between India and Pakistan but the present conditions point towards a certain war between the two countries.

February 16th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Two Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers and 11 other state officials have been booked by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau for their alleged involvement in a multi-million septic tanks scam, a vigilance official Tuesday said. The officials are charged with causing a loss of Rs.70 million (Rs.7 crore) to the state by sanctioning use of sub-standard plastic tanks against laid out norms.

February 13th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Alleging that 'political terrorism' was rampant in Punjab, former chief minister Amarinder Singh Saturday said the ruling Akali Dal leaders were using muscle power to harass Congress workers in the state. Amarinder Singh demanded from the central government and the Election Commission of India to declare the entire state as 'sensitive' for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.

January 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Wednesday decided to send a show-cause notice to its two senior legislators - Somen Mitra who floated his own party, and Sudip Bandhopadhyay who joined Trinamool Congress - after leaving the party recently. 'We've unanimously decided to send a show-cause notice to both Congress legislators who broke from the party.

January 3rd, 2009 ROHTAK - Congress legislators in Haryana who do not devote adequate time to their constituencies and people could be denied the party ticket in the next assembly elections, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Sunday. 'The party ticket is given by the high command.