Chandrashekar Srinivasan

Ms Banerjee was joined in her condemnation of the 'one nation, one election' proposal by her Tamil Nadu counterpart, the DMK's MK Stalin, who called it "anti-democratic".

By Thursday night, with hours left before the big debate on the Constitution kicks off, BJP and Congress MPs went into huddles at their party HQs in Delhi, with PM Modi and Amit Shah prepping their side. The Lok Sabha will hold a two-day debate from noon today to mark 75 years of the Constitution. This is assuming a House torn by a BJP-Congress war - over alleged Sonia Gandhi-George Soros links and the US' Adani indictment - functions normally.

The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal.

Two of the BJP's allies - Andhra Pradesh's ruling TDP and the Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde - have backed the 'one nation, one election' bill.

A maximum of 31 MPs will form the joint parliamentary committee to which two bills proposing changes to the Constitution - to allow simultaneous federal and state elections - will be referred, sources told NDTV late Tuesday.

The injured BJP MP, Mr Sarangi, said he fell and hurt his head after a third person (unidentified at this time) fell on him.

All the chaos and protests in Parliament this week followed Amit Shah's "fashion" remark about Dr Ambedkar - regarded as the architect of the Constitution.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which crashed near Aqtau in Kazakhstan, had reportedly requested an emergency landing before the incident.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed near Kazakhstan's Aqtau on Christmas Day - while en route from Baku to Grozny in Russia - may have been "accidentally struck" by a Russian surface-to-air missile or antiaircraft fire.

The AAP's outrage followed the Congress' Delhi unit releasing a 12-point "white paper" targeting it for mismanagement of pollution, civic facilities and law and order in the city.