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Over 1,000 questions listed for Question Hour in 7th Vidhan Sabha, says Delhi Assembly Speaker Goel

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Updated on Jan 03, 2025 06:35 PM IST

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Delhi assembly Speaker retires from electoral politics before polls

Ram Niwas Goel will continue to hold the Speaker’s position until the end of the current House term—February 23, 2025

Speaker Ram Niwas Goel. (Delhi Govt / Shrikant Singh/ Ani)

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Updated on Dec 05, 2024 10:54 PM IST

ByAlok K N Mishra

Delhi House Speaker Ram Niwas Goel announces retirement from electoral politics

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, 76, will continue to hold the position of the presiding officer until the end of the current House term—February 23, 2025

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Published on Dec 05, 2024 12:29 PM IST

ByAlok KN Mishra

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel retires from active politics

In a letter to AAP supremo Kejriwal, 76-year-old Ram Niwas Goel expressed gratitude for the respect shown by all party legislators.

Delhi Vidhan Sabha speaker Ram Niwas Goel, with current Delhi chief minister Atishi and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal. (Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 05, 2024 11:45 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Delhi assembly adjourned as Speaker refuses to take up BJP’s adjournment motion

BJP lawmakers protested against Speaker Ram Niwas Goel’s refusal to take up the adjournment motion over the alleged failures of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government

The two-day assembly session is Atishi’s first as the chief minister. (HT PHOTO)

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Published on Sep 26, 2024 12:11 PM IST

ByAlok KN Mishra

AAP MLA Raaj Kumar Anand, who fought LS polls on BSP ticket, disqualified

Delhi assembly speaker disqualifies AAP MLA Raaj Kumar Anand for anti-defection law violation after joining BSP and contesting elections.

Former Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand, who joined Bahujan Samaj Party, arrives to file his nomination paper as BSP candidate for New Delhi Lok Sabha seat on May 6 (HT FILE PHOTO/ARVIND YADAV)

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Updated on Jun 14, 2024 07:57 PM IST

ByAlok KN Mishra

Delhi speaker shares names of 14 MLAs for mayoral polls collegium

MCD, in an agenda circulated on Tuesday, said that the mayoral elections are scheduled to be held on April 26

AAP councillors Mahesh Khichi and Ravinder Bhardwaj file their nominations for the post of Mayor and Deputy Mayor respectively at the MCD office in New Delhi on April 18. (Sanjeev Verma/HT photo)

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Updated on Apr 24, 2024 05:48 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

AAP leaders under house arrest, detained; BJP protests against Kejriwal: Updates

Delhi Speaker Ram Niwas Goel and deputy mayor Aaley Mohd Iqbal have been placed under house arrest, said Gopal Rai.

Delhi Police and paramilitary forces at the AAP protest site. (HT PHOTO)(HT_PRINT)

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Updated on Feb 02, 2024 12:57 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Delhi govt’s finance dept impeding House autonomy: Speaker Ram Niwas Goel

The dispute relates to the finance department returning files, and asking for them to be approved via the law department

This is not the first time that the assembly, dominated by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has had a confrontation with bureaucrats who effectively report to lieutenant governor VK Saxena, who in turn reports to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government. (PTI)

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Updated on Dec 16, 2023 01:46 AM IST

ByAlok K N Mishra

Officials holding up visit to Ghana for Commonwealth meet: Delhi Speaker

According to Goel, the file for the Ghana visit was sent in June, and that two other assembly officials plan to go for the event.

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel (FILE)

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Updated on Sep 02, 2023 01:42 AM IST

ByAlok KN Mishra

LG refers grant of sanction to prosecute AAP MLA to Delhi Speaker

Akhilesh Pati Tripathi is accused of demanding ₹90 lakh as bribe for securing an AAP ticket to a woman aspirant prior to last year’s municipal elections

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Updated on Aug 22, 2023 11:37 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Delhi Speaker constitutes House panels, committees

Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj who earlier headed the privileges committee is no longer part of any committee because of his elevation to the cabinet.

A senior assembly official said that the assembly committees are constituted generally for one year, but remain valid till they are reconstituted. (HT Archive)

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Updated on Apr 09, 2023 01:52 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Delhi speaker Ram Niwas Goel convicted in trespassing case, released on bail

According to an FIR registered on a complaint by a local builder, Manish Ghai, Ram Niwas Goel and his supporters had raided one of Ghai’s houses in Vivek Vihar on the night of February 6, 2015, a day before the Delhi Assembly elections.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, his son Sumit Goel and three others were granted six months imprisonment for trespassing a property.(Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Oct 18, 2019 11:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel gets six-month jail term in house trespassing case

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel has been sentenced to six months in jail for trespassing the house of a realtor in an east Delhi colony in 2015.

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Published on Oct 18, 2019 09:06 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Two rebel Delhi AAP MLAs disqualified, had campaigned for Modi’s BJP

AAP MLAs were disqualified on a complaint to the Delhi Assembly Speaker that they had shared the stage with BJP leaders during Lok Sabha poll campaigning period.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP party will be up against a BJP, fresh from its stellar show on all seven Delhi Lok Sabha seats, in the assembly polls to be held later this year(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Aug 08, 2019 05:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

‘Son of MLA’ sticker gets Delhi BJP legislator defamation notice from Speaker

The defamation notice was sent to Manjinder Singh Sirsa for his tweet in which he allegedly accused Ram Niwas Goel of nepotism.

According to the contents of a defamation letter sent by Goel’s counsel to Sirsa, the BJP leader on July 14 had allegedly posted a picture of a car with ‘Son of MLA’ written on back of the vehicle on Twitter from his official account(Twitter/mssirsa)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2019 10:43 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Former AAP MLA Anil Bajpai moves High Court against Speaker

On June 20, AAP had moved an anti-defection petition against Bajpai and Bijwasan MLA Devinder Sehrawat – both AAP rebels -—for joining the BJP days before the Lok Sabha elections.

Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Gandhi Nagar Anil Bajpai, who defected to the BJP just before the Lok Sabha elections, moved the Delhi High Court on Saturday, accusing Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel of favouring the ruling party.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 07, 2019 02:47 PM IST

New Delhi | ByRicha Banka

Ex-AAP legislators get a week to reply

Goel, on Tuesday afternoon, had scheduled a personal hearing of Bijwasan and Gandhi Nagar MLAs Devinder Sehrawat and Anil Bajpai, respectively in the case.

Suspended AAP MLA Devinder Sehrawat addressing a press conference.(PTI)

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Published on Jun 26, 2019 05:19 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Rebel AAP MLAs request Speaker to defer disqualification hearings

Bajpai and Sehrawat had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after which AAP MLA and party spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj had filed two petitions before the Assembly secretariat seeking disqualification of the two legislators.

Citing the same reason, Bijwasan MLA Sehrwat, sought four weeks to furnish his reply over the charge of joining the BJP.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 25, 2019 05:01 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Assembly notice to two former AAP MLAs over joining BJP

The two legislators had defected from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in May.

The Delhi Assembly Secretariat has sent notices to MLAs Anil Bajpai and Devinder Sehrawat, seeking their comments on petitions that demand their disqualification from the legislative assembly. (Photo by (Samir Jana / Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Jun 20, 2019 07:23 AM IST

New Delhi | BySweta Goswami

Delhi Assembly Speaker forms special panel to study video advertisements on govt schools

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel sought a probe after deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia told the House that bureaucrats refused to clear an ad that depicted transformation of government schools in Delhi over the past four years.

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Thursday formed a ‘special committee’ to investigate a proposal to issue video advertisements on the government’s achievements.(File Photo)

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Published on Feb 28, 2019 06:30 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Lokayukta notices to Delhi MLAs on assets ‘politically motivated’, says assembly speaker

Based on advocate and RTI activist Vivek Garg’s petition, the Lokayukta office had issued notices to all Delhi legislators, asking them to furnish details of their assets and liabilities by January 28.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel says that theLokayukta’s office is not empowered to seek details of MLAs assets and liabilities.(Burhaan Kinu/HT File)

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Updated on Jan 23, 2019 02:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

1984 anti-Sikh riots resolution: AAP puts up united front

The controversy broke out on Friday after reports of the Delhi assembly passing the resolution. Facing flak from political rivals, the AAP said on Saturday the reference to Rajiv Gandhi was added by Malviya Nagar legislator Somnath Bharti without informing the House.

AAP MLA Alka Lamba had on Friday said she will tender her resignation as ‘demanded’ by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for not supporting a resolution in the assembly on revoking late PM Rajiv Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna.(Saumya Khandelwal/HT Photo)

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Updated on Dec 22, 2018 11:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel says AAP should be part of grand alliance against BJP

When asked by reporters about AAP joining hands with Congress in Delhi, assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel said it will be in the ‘interest of Delhi and the country’ if the mahagathbandhan comes about and AAP participates in it.

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel was speaking on the sidelines of an event to pay homage to Vithal Bhai Patel and Bhagat Singh on their birth anniversary at the Delhi Assembly.(Burhaan Kinu/HT File Photo)

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Updated on Sep 28, 2018 06:27 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

BJP’s Vijender Gupta marshalled out on last day of Delhi assembly

Former AAP minister Sandeep Kumar also ejected for wanting to raise issues pertaining to his constituency under Rule 280 of the Delhi assembly.

BJP MLAs Vijender Gupta and OP Sharma at the Vidhan Sabha in New Delhi recently.(Sonu Mehtra/ HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 11, 2018 04:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Massive traffic woes in Delhi-NCR as kanwariyas take over roads

Traffic across Delhi and NCR was severely hit on Wednesday due to the movement of Kanwariyas along the arterial roads in Gurugram and Delhi. In the national capital, proceedings of the Delhi Assembly was delayed after Speaker Ram Niwas Goel reportedly got stuck in a traffic jam.

The Delhi-Gurgaon expressway in Gurugram witnessed heavy congestion on Wednesday evening, as Kanwariyas passing through the city hampered vehicular movement from 4 pm onwards.(Yogendra Kumar/HT Photo)

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Updated on Aug 09, 2018 06:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Delhi/Gurugram | ByKartik Kumar

Delhi Assembly Speaker alleges L-G killed democracy in letter to Mahajan

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel is miffed at a communication sent by Lt Governor Anil Baijal asking him not to admit questions on reserved subjects.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel sought to know why legislators cannot ask questions on reserved subjects.(File Photo)

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Published on Apr 25, 2018 06:49 PM IST

Press Trust of India, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Delhi speaker asks L-G to take back letter on ‘reserved’ issues

Officials at the assembly secretariat said the Speaker may also write to assembly speakers of other states for their support on the matter.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel has written to lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, requesting him to withdraw a communication asking him to not admit questions in the House on “reserved” subjects

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Updated on Mar 28, 2018 11:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi

Speaker, ministers wear black bands in Delhi assembly

Protest after Lt. Governor Anil Baijal’s contention that Speaker cannot accept questions on reserved subjects

L-G Anil Baijal’s (left) letter to the state law department stated that he had consulted the legal affairs department of the Centre, which said the Speaker (Ram Niwas Goel in this case) cannot allow such reserved subject questions.(File Photo)

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Updated on Mar 28, 2018 07:02 PM IST

Indo Asian News Service, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

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Over 1,000 questions listed for Question Hour in 7th Vidhan Sabha, says Delhi Assembly Speaker Goel

Ram Niwas Goel will continue to hold the Speaker’s position until the end of the current House term—February 23, 2025

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, 76, will continue to hold the position of the presiding officer until the end of the current House term—February 23, 2025

In a letter to AAP supremo Kejriwal, 76-year-old Ram Niwas Goel expressed gratitude for the respect shown by all party legislators.

BJP lawmakers protested against Speaker Ram Niwas Goel’s refusal to take up the adjournment motion over the alleged failures of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government

Delhi assembly speaker disqualifies AAP MLA Raaj Kumar Anand for anti-defection law violation after joining BSP and contesting elections.

MCD, in an agenda circulated on Tuesday, said that the mayoral elections are scheduled to be held on April 26

Delhi Speaker Ram Niwas Goel and deputy mayor Aaley Mohd Iqbal have been placed under house arrest, said Gopal Rai.

The dispute relates to the finance department returning files, and asking for them to be approved via the law department

According to Goel, the file for the Ghana visit was sent in June, and that two other assembly officials plan to go for the event.

Akhilesh Pati Tripathi is accused of demanding ₹90 lakh as bribe for securing an AAP ticket to a woman aspirant prior to last year’s municipal elections

Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj who earlier headed the privileges committee is no longer part of any committee because of his elevation to the cabinet.

According to an FIR registered on a complaint by a local builder, Manish Ghai, Ram Niwas Goel and his supporters had raided one of Ghai’s houses in Vivek Vihar on the night of February 6, 2015, a day before the Delhi Assembly elections.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel has been sentenced to six months in jail for trespassing the house of a realtor in an east Delhi colony in 2015.

AAP MLAs were disqualified on a complaint to the Delhi Assembly Speaker that they had shared the stage with BJP leaders during Lok Sabha poll campaigning period.

The defamation notice was sent to Manjinder Singh Sirsa for his tweet in which he allegedly accused Ram Niwas Goel of nepotism.

On June 20, AAP had moved an anti-defection petition against Bajpai and Bijwasan MLA Devinder Sehrawat – both AAP rebels -—for joining the BJP days before the Lok Sabha elections.

Goel, on Tuesday afternoon, had scheduled a personal hearing of Bijwasan and Gandhi Nagar MLAs Devinder Sehrawat and Anil Bajpai, respectively in the case.

Bajpai and Sehrawat had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls after which AAP MLA and party spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj had filed two petitions before the Assembly secretariat seeking disqualification of the two legislators.

The two legislators had defected from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in May.

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel sought a probe after deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia told the House that bureaucrats refused to clear an ad that depicted transformation of government schools in Delhi over the past four years.

Based on advocate and RTI activist Vivek Garg’s petition, the Lokayukta office had issued notices to all Delhi legislators, asking them to furnish details of their assets and liabilities by January 28.

The controversy broke out on Friday after reports of the Delhi assembly passing the resolution. Facing flak from political rivals, the AAP said on Saturday the reference to Rajiv Gandhi was added by Malviya Nagar legislator Somnath Bharti without informing the House.

When asked by reporters about AAP joining hands with Congress in Delhi, assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel said it will be in the ‘interest of Delhi and the country’ if the mahagathbandhan comes about and AAP participates in it.

Former AAP minister Sandeep Kumar also ejected for wanting to raise issues pertaining to his constituency under Rule 280 of the Delhi assembly.

Traffic across Delhi and NCR was severely hit on Wednesday due to the movement of Kanwariyas along the arterial roads in Gurugram and Delhi. In the national capital, proceedings of the Delhi Assembly was delayed after Speaker Ram Niwas Goel reportedly got stuck in a traffic jam.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel is miffed at a communication sent by Lt Governor Anil Baijal asking him not to admit questions on reserved subjects.

Officials at the assembly secretariat said the Speaker may also write to assembly speakers of other states for their support on the matter.

Protest after Lt. Governor Anil Baijal’s contention that Speaker cannot accept questions on reserved subjects

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