In a dramatic rejection of the Union Government’s conditions to resume the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme in West Bengal after a three-year gap, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee publicly tore up the Centre’s note on the issue on Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
Congress Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “no longer the PM he once was”, questioning his confidence and policies in recent years. Addressing the Lok Sabha, Priyanka Gandhi fired shots at the BJP over their negligence of people’s problems.
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, was suspended from the party on Monday (December 8, 2025) after she sparked a controversy by declaring that anyone with “₹500 crore” could become the Chief Minister. Mr. Sidhu is a former cricketer
Triggering a war of words between the ruling BJP and the main Opposition Congress, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and his Rajya Sabha counterpart Mallikarjun Kharge were not invited to the official dinner hosted by President Droupadi Murmu for Russian President Vladimir Putin at Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Facing flak over its order to mobile companies to preload the Sanchar Saathi app, the government on Tuesday sought to downplay the controversy as the Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said mobile users who do not want to use the app can delete it from their phones. Notwithstanding the minister’s assertion, tech experts raise doubt about whether the app, which critics fear could be used for “snooping”, can be uninstalled or deleted.
“Parliament is not a place for drama; it is a place for delivery,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday in his customary remarks ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament. “For some time now, our Parliament is being used either as a warm-up arena for elections or as an outlet for frustration after defeat,” Mr. Modi went on to allege, referring to the Opposition.
Even as the BJP-led Union government made it clear that it has no intention of introducing a constitutional amendment Bill to bring Chandigarh under Article 240 of the Constitution in the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament, the political parties cornered the Bhartiya Janata Party.
An anti-polygamy Bill tabled by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Assam Assembly on Tuesday prescribes imprisonment and heavy fines for people entering into, or hiding, a second marriage while the first continues to be valid.
The CPI(M) will launch a 1,000-km ‘Bangla Bachao Yatra’ on November 29, a statewide mobilisation it claims will expose “injustice, loot and systematic democratic erosion” under the TMC-led state government while countering what it calls the BJP-led Centre’s “anti-people policies” that have deepened distress across Bengal.
