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Delhi HC refuses urgent hearing for plea seeking LoP's appointment in LS

A vacation bench of justices Jyoti Singh and Manoj Kumar Ohri said "looking at the relief sought, there is no urgency". The bench instead listed the petition for hearing on July 8

BJD to support NDA's Om Birla for LS speaker, may get deputy speaker's post

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik-led BJD, which has 12 Lok Sabha members, took the decision at its Parliamentary Party meeting held in Delhi

Dy Speaker Thambidurai urges Speaker to revoke suspension of 45 LS members

Mahajan had suspended 24 AIADMK members on Wednesday for five consecutive sittings. On Thursday, she suspended 21 members of AIADMK, TDP and an unattached YSR Congress member

Speaker Sumitra Mahajan chides protesting TDP, YSR Congress members

Soon after the House met, members from the TDP and the YSR Congress trooped near the Speaker's podium

Lok Sabha Speaker calls Opposition walkout 'unfortunate'

Opposition on Wednesday staged a walk out while demanding an obituary reference to the soldiers killed in Nagrota attack

Letters: Let the legislatures decide

The editorial, "Balancing power" (April 27) raises some pertinent questions about the role of the Lok Sabha Speaker in allowing the Aadhaar Bill to be considered a Money Bill and that of the Speaker of the Uttarakhand Assembly in refusing to allow a division - the counting of legislators' votes - on the state Budget.Irrespective of the final verdict of the Supreme Court on the alleged partisan role played by the Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker and the consequent imposition of President's rule in the state, the Speaker's discretion should never turn into an act of discrimination.The editorial is correct in pointing out that the two major national parties - the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party - have each taken opposing views on this debate at the central and state levels.In Uttarakhand, the Congress is defending the rights of the Speaker, while in Delhi it is questioning them, indicating that this is possibly a problem of institutional weakness that transcends political parties. Thi