Six-time MLA and former Minister Pramila Mallick on Friday became the first woman Speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
The BJD legislator was elected unopposed as opposition BJP and Congress didn’t field any candidate for the election.
Mallick had on Thursday resigned from the post of
By arresting the Congress MLA in the Nuh violence case, the ruling party is only going to fall further behind in southern Haryana, where Muslims are in majority. But the move is a key signal to the likes of the Bajrang Dal that had accused it of betrayal after Monu Manesar was taken into custody.
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H K Shah, retired professor from H K Arts College in Ahmedabad said that university staff and teachers will be government employees, who would not have any voice.
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