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By Shefali Srivastava An old video of former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati lashing out at erstwhile chairman of Rajya Sabha Hamid Ansari's absence from the House in the afternoons is circulating with a false communal claim on social media. The captions falsely claim that Mayawati reprimanded the former vice president of India for adjourning and leaving the Upper House at noon everyday to offer namaz. In the video, Mayawati can be heard saying, "You are the chairman of the House; your responsibility is to ensure that the House functions after 12 pm. Who ...
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By Akshit Chawla The new law has been criticised by legal experts and parliamentarians for being “very vague” and ‘bolstering’ the government’s interception powers. President of India Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the new Post Office Bill, 2023 on 24 December 2023. This Act, they say, can be used for surveillance of citizens since it allows the central government to empower officers to intercept, open or detain any item sent via India Post in the interest of public safety or national security. The new Act aims to regulate the functioning of post offices under the government’s Department of...
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By Ritika Jain The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 even as Opposition MPs remain suspended. The BJP, which is the ruling party at the Centre, ploughed ahead with bills even as at least 143 opposition MPs have been suspended from both houses for the remainder of the Winter Session. Owing to the thin presence of the Opposition, the Rajya Sabha MPs debated the bill for a mere hour, while the Lok Sabha MPs debated the bill for just over an hour on Wednesday before passing it on December 20. At least 97 Opposition MPs have been suspended from the lower house. The Te...
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By Ritika Jain The Centre on Thursday is set to introduce a bill in the Rajya Sabha that seeks to exclude the Chief Justice of India from a committee that will select members of the Election Commission. The bill, though retaining the three-member committee, replaces the CJI with the Prime Minister’s nominee. In the run-up to the 2024 General Elections, this bill will prove to be important and instrumental in the upcoming elections. In March 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that the President may appoint Chief Election Commissioners (CEC) and Elections Commissioners (ECs) based on the recommendati...
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By Mohammed Kudrati India's Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar, said that "flawed" surveys and international comparisons of electoral rankings actually harmed democracy, even if unintentionally. He that the indices were not inclusive enough and that those countries with lower inclusivity were ranked higher. "I would like to point out that when the EMBs (election management bodies) or EAs (election authorities), are involved and busy in conducting elections, and in our case since we do provincial elections also elections after elections. In the meantime, comes some survey report, kind of,...
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By Mohammed Kudrati Recently, at an event organised by Panchjanya magazine, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that she identifies herself as 'middle class', to convey that she understands the pressures and problems they face. Sitharaman also said that the government does not tax income under ₹5 lakh, with no extra taxes being imposed on the 'middle class' under the government; portraying facilities like metros, smart-cities and better drinking water coverage to be middle-class friendly initiatives. However, there is no fixed definition of who can be called economically middle class. Rat...
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By Ritika Jain Judicial vacancies are one of the leading causes for the rising pendency in cases, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha as he doubled down on his criticism of the collegium system. "The delay in appointment of judges is one of the main reasons for the almost "five crore" pending cases, Rijiju said during Question Hour in the upper house. The ongoing tiff between the Executive and the Supreme Court has intensified over the last few weeks with both sides exchanging barbs in court and in public. The government has limited say in filling judicial vacancies. The Centre does...
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By Ritika Jain National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) does not maintain data on 'Hate Crimes' because it is not defined under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Home Ministry told the Rajya Sabha today. Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai gave the Centre's stock response on queries related to rising hate crime in the country. The Centre had repeatedly maintained that it does not have data on hate crimes, because it is not defined. When Rajya Sabha MP Syed Nasir Hussain asked if the Centre has taken any steps to curb hate crimes, Rai pointed out that police and public order were state ...
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By Ritika Jain Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said that in October 2016 Supreme Court undid a "historic parliamentary mandate" when it struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)—the Centre's flagship project. "There is no parallel to such a development in democratic history where a duly legitimised constitutional prescription has been judicially undone," Dhankar said in a direct attack on the Supreme Court. In his maiden speech before the Rajya Sabha, Dhankar sought to strike a balance between the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive, when he said de...
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By Sana Fazili "Hypocrisy ki bhi seema hoti hai (there is a limit to hypocrisy)," Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said at a rally. The dialogue became fodder for meme lords, critics of the BJP, and the Opposition to take a dig at the central government. The word 'hypocrisy' has now been declared unparliamentary as per the new Lok Sabha Secretariat ahead of the monsoon session of the Lok Sabha starting July 18. Neither the government nor the opposition will be able to use the word. Similarly, the members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will have to find alternatives to words like abuse, corr...
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