Three time JD(S) MLC Puttanna expelled from party
Bengaluru, Nov 6: The JD(S) on Wednesday expelled three time MLC Puttanna from the party, citing "anti-party activities.
JD(S) state President H K Kumaraswamy expelled Puttanna with immediate effect.
Puttanna had recently spoken about his plans to quit the JD(S), following the party choosing another candidate over him, for the upcoming teachers' constituency polls to the legislative council.
According to party sources, Puttanna was seen getting close to BJP in the recent days.
The decision to expel Puttanna comes amid reports that several JD(S) MLCs are disgruntled with the party leadership over treatment meted out to them during the previous coalition government.
JD(S) patriarch Deve Gowda will hold a meeting on November 12 to resolve the crisis and to quell dissidence.
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Jaya Bachchan raises concern over VIP movements causing road blocks, traffic diversions
New Delhi (PTI): Rajya Sabha Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Amitabh Bachchan on Monday expressed concern over the growing menace of VIP culture affecting vehicular traffic and causing inconvenience to people.
Raising the matter during the Zero Hour in the House, she said roadblocks and traffic diversions due to the movements of VIPs, including politicians, high-ranking officials, and dignitaries, have become a major source of disruption in the daily lives of countless citizens in the country.
"One has travelled all over the world, but has never seen many VIPs and cavalcades going, but they never stop people on the street," Bachchan said.
She also narrated a recent incident when Rajya Sabha MPs, who leave from Shardula Dwar, were stopped as the main door was locked because there was VIP movement.
"We have never faced such humiliation in the last 22 years of mine in this parliament. We are not a threat to any of the VIPs, especially the political lot," she empahsised.
The SP member further said there are roads along the houses of political "big wigs" which remain blocked.
The MP highlighted that not only common citizens, even ambulances get stuck due to VIP movements.
She urged Chairman C P Radhakrishnan to take up the matter with the government.
"Sir, speak to the government. You are the Vice President of this country...this culture has to stop in order to give dignity to the taxpayers of this country who have brought us into this House," Bachchan said.
