Legislative Council News

The MVA was riding high on its Lok Sabha election victory where it won 30 of 48 Lok Sabha seats. However, it faced a crushing setback in the Legislative Council polls which was touted as the semifinal ahead of the assembly polls.

West Bengal passed resolution to create Legislative Council Only six Indian states have Legislative Council The Councils are formed or abolished by the use of Article 169

West Bengal Assembly passes resolution to create Legislative Council Out of 265 members present, 196 voted in favour of the resolution Formation of Council was one of TMC's poll promises

Karnataka Legislative Council Deputy Speaker SL Dharme Gowda has committed suicide His dead body was found on the railway track in Kadur. a suicide note has been recovered from Gowda’s body.

The ECI's official statement read that adequate measures for close monitoring of the election process by appointing observers shall be taken to ensure free and fair election.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and eight others were declared elected unopposed to the state Legislative Council on Thursday.

The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi- Shiv Sena, Congress, and NCP--apprised the ECI that they have requested Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to nominate Uddhav Thackeray but the latter has not agreed to it so far. 

The move to abolish the Legislative Council comes days after Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy-led government in the state failed to get two bills on its plans to have three capitals passed by the Upper House, which is dominated by main opposition Telugu Desam Party of N Chandrababu Naidu.

YSRCP has alleged that the TDP had been using majority in the council for its own benefit and halting key bills. 

Davkhare of the BJP will take on Sena's Sanjay More in the Konkan Graduates' seat. The NCP has fielded Najeeb Mulla, who has support of the Congress and other like-minded parties.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was on Friday was elected to the Legislative Council.

Besides Adityanath, his deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma, two more state ministers had filed their nomination papers yesterday.

Mahendra Nath Pandey will replace Keshav Prasad Maurya as UP BJP chief.

The Election Commission on Tuesday declared that polling in one more by-election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council will be held on September 18, three days after voting to fill four vacancies for which it had declared the dates last week.

The Election Commission (EC) set in motion on Tuesday the process for filling up four vacant UP Legislative Council seats by issuing the notification for the by-polls.

In a setback to the Samajwadi Party, its MLC Ashok Bajpai on Wednesday resigned from the UP Legislative Council, taking the number of party legislators who have quit recently to four.

Andhra Pradesh`s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Thursday suspended Legislative Council member G. Deepak Reddy, who was arrested last week for his alleged involvement in a land scam.

Maharashtra Minister Deepak Kesarkar on Sunday informed the Legislative Council that the continuation of VAT on petroleum products and alcohol will be decided by the Goods and Service Tax Council in the next five years.

The Maharashtra government planned to develop a cab hailing app in three months for black- and- yellow taxis on the lines of the services provided by private aggregators like Ola and Uber,Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday.

About 99 per cent polling was today reported in elections to the three Legislative Council seats from the Local Authorities Constituencies in Andhra Pradesh.