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Vinesh, Bilkis, Modi ji, विपक्ष नहीं आप महिलाओं से माफ़ी माँगिये | Arfa Khanum Sherwani
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- Vinesh, Bilkis, Modi ji, विपक्ष नहीं आप महिलाओं से माफ़ी माँगिये | Arfa Khanum Sherwani
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- 20 days ago
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- Cracking The New World Order | Cracknomics
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- A war is playing out in the Strait of Hormuz, and another is raging on social media; but the real battle is for the future of global power. With Iranian embassies confidently countering every tweet from Donald Trump, it's becoming clear that the era of unquestioned US hegemony is fading. This week, Trump announced he would impose a blockade on top of Iran's blockade. In response, the Iranian consulate in Hyderabad posted a map showing an Iranian blockade extending beyond the US line. But this isn't just online theater. On the ground, Iran has maintained control over the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the declared US blockade, at least one Chinese tanker and two other ships passed through just this Tuesday. The world is witnessing a fundamental shift—away from a unipolar order dominated by Washington, and toward a multipolar reality where regional powers like Iran assert their influence, China charts its own course, and no single nation calls all the shots. Global supply chains are crackin...
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- What is Happening in the US-Israel War on Iran?
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- This Party and Government Has Never Been Pro Women | Kapil Sibal to Karan Thapar
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- PM 'lied' on Saturday; CEC should issue him a notice, in fact, should have stopped his speech: Kapil Sibal to Karan Thapar for The Wire.
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In an interview to discuss the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on Saturday and his own video response later the same night, former Law and Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has said “Prime Minister knowing the facts of history deliberately made statements that are inconsistent with those facts … people know what I mean … I have stated what I have stated (which is) based on the facts of history.”
Speaking about the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr. Sibal said if the CEC had been truly independent and impartial “he should have issued him (the PM) a notice. (In fact), he would not have allowed the speech to go on. He should have made a statement. And he knew, he would have known, the Prime Minister was going to give a spe...
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- US-Iran War: Is the World Order Changing? | Cracknomics
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- A war is playing out in the Strait of Hormuz, and another is raging on social media; but the real battle is for the future of global power. With Iranian embassies confidently countering every tweet from Donald Trump, it's becoming clear that the era of unquestioned US hegemony is fading. This week, Trump announced he would impose a blockade on top of Iran's blockade. In response, the Iranian consulate in Hyderabad posted a map showing an Iranian blockade extending beyond the US line. But this isn't just online theater. On the ground, Iran has maintained control over the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the declared US blockade, at least one Chinese tanker and two other ships passed through just this Tuesday. The world is witnessing a fundamental shift—away from a unipolar order dominated by Washington, and toward a multipolar reality where regional powers like Iran assert their influence, China charts its own course, and no single nation calls all the shots. Global supply chains are crackin...
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- "We are Not Living in Democratic Times"": Kapil Sibal to Karan Thapar
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- PM 'lied' on Saturday; CEC should issue him a notice, in fact, should have stopped his speech: Kapil Sibal to Karan Thapar for The Wire.
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In an interview to discuss the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on Saturday and his own video response later the same night, former Law and Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has said “Prime Minister knowing the facts of history deliberately made statements that are inconsistent with those facts … people know what I mean … I have stated what I have stated (which is) based on the facts of history.”
Speaking about the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr. Sibal said if the CEC had been truly independent and impartial “he should have issued him (the PM) a notice. (In fact), he would not have allowed the speech to go on. He should have made a statement. And he knew, he would have known, the Prime Minister was going to give a spe...
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- After the Defeat | By One-Track Mind Productions
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- 21 days ago
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- PM ‘lied’ Saturday; CEC should issue a notice, in fact, should’ve stopped his speech: Kapil Sibal
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- PM 'lied' on Saturday; CEC should issue him a notice, in fact, should have stopped his speech: Kapil Sibal to Karan Thapar for The Wire.
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In an interview to discuss the Prime Minister’s address to the nation on Saturday and his own video response later the same night, former Law and Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has said “Prime Minister knowing the facts of history deliberately made statements that are inconsistent with those facts … people know what I mean … I have stated what I have stated (which is) based on the facts of history.”
Speaking about the Chief Election Commissioner, Mr. Sibal said if the CEC had been truly independent and impartial “he should have issued him (the PM) a notice. (In fact), he would not have allowed the speech to go on. He should have made a statement. And he knew, he would have known, the Prime Minister was going to give a spe...
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- ABVP Told to ‘Go Back’ During Protest at Gargi College”
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- ABVP faced sloganeering and protests at Gargi College. ABVP members, along with Delhi University President Aryan Maan, were asked to leave the college premises. Students alleged that male ABVP members forced their way into the campus.
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- BJP is here because of its allies & it cannot always get its way | The Wire Wrap
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The Narendra Modi government has failed to pass bills-The
Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 and delimitation through its stated objective of operationalising 33% reservation for women. The final vote in the Lok Sabha recorded 298 ‘ayes’ and 230 ‘noes’. There were 528 MPs present and voting. The government needed two-thirds majority to pass the bills, which was 352. It fell short by 54 votes.
While the government has blamed the opposition for not bringing in women's reservation, the opposition has hailed victory for stopping "an unconstitutional trick in the name of women."
The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Seema Chishti, editor, The Wire and Siddharth Varadarajan.
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- A New Global Order? | The Battle That Reveals America's Fading Power | Cracknomics Ep 89
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- A war is playing out in the Strait of Hormuz, and another is raging on social media; but the real battle is for the future of global power. With Iranian embassies confidently countering every tweet from Donald Trump, it's becoming clear that the era of unquestioned US hegemony is fading. This week, Trump announced he would impose a blockade on top of Iran's blockade. In response, the Iranian consulate in Hyderabad posted a map showing an Iranian blockade extending beyond the US line. But this isn't just online theater. On the ground, Iran has maintained control over the Strait of Hormuz. Despite the declared US blockade, at least one Chinese tanker and two other ships passed through just this Tuesday. The world is witnessing a fundamental shift—away from a unipolar order dominated by Washington, and toward a multipolar reality where regional powers like Iran assert their influence, China charts its own course, and no single nation calls all the shots. Global supply chains are crackin...
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- What is Happening in the US-Israel War on Iran? | Central Hall
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- Kapil Sibal in Central Hall speaks to former foreign secretary and expert, Kanwal Sibal, to reflect on the backdrop of the attack on Iran and why US President Donald Trump had torn up the elaborate agreement Iran had reached with the US under President Barack Obama in 2015. Will the next stage of talks between US and Iran succeed?
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- The Real Purpose of the Bill was to alter the nature of the Indian Parliamentary Democracy
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The Narendra Modi government has failed to pass bills-The
Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 and delimitation through its stated objective of operationalising 33% reservation for women. The final vote in the Lok Sabha recorded 298 ‘ayes’ and 230 ‘noes’. There were 528 MPs present and voting. The government needed two-thirds majority to pass the bills, which was 352. It fell short by 54 votes.
While the government has blamed the opposition for not bringing in women's reservation, the opposition has hailed victory for stopping "an unconstitutional trick in the name of women."
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- Women's Reservation Bill has not been defeated | The Wire Wrap
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- The Narendra Modi government has failed to pass bills-The
Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 and delimitation through its stated objective of operationalising 33% reservation for women. The final vote in the Lok Sabha recorded 298 ‘ayes’ and 230 ‘noes’. There were 528 MPs present and voting. The government needed two-thirds majority to pass the bills, which was 352. It fell short by 54 votes.
While the government has blamed the opposition for not bringing in women's reservation, the opposition has hailed victory for stopping "an unconstitutional trick in the name of women."
The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Seema Chishti, editor, The Wire and Siddharth Varadarajan.
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- “कर्तव्य याद दिलाती है, अधिकार भूल जाती है सरकार” | Baat Bharat Ki
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The Delimitation Cup |. By Democracy-1 Dictatorship - 0
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- "मज़दूरों को इंसान क्यों नहीं समझ रही सरकार" | Baat Bharat Ki
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- “मज़दूरों के एटीएम और पासबुक रख लेते हैं ठेकेदार" | Baat Bharat Ki
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Live: Priyanka Gandhi Calls Defeat of Constitution Amendment Bill a ‘Win For Constitution’
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi addressed the media on Saturday on the special session of parliament and the Union government’s failed attempt to bring in delimitation under the guise of women’s reservation.
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- Labour Protests: मज़दूरों को इंसान क्यों नहीं समझ रही सरकार | Baat Bharat Ki
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- बीते हफ्ते अपने हक़ का वेतन और सुविधाएं मांग रहे मज़दूरों पर लाठीचार्ज हुआ, फिर उन पर हिंसा फैलाने के आरोप लगे और उसके बाद 'पाकिस्तान' और 'नक्सल' कनेक्शन भी निकाल लिया गया. क्या सरकारें पूरी तरह पूंजीपतियों के पक्ष में जाते हुए श्रमिक विरोधी हो चली हैं, ऑल इंडिया सेंट्रल काउंसिल ऑफ ट्रेड यूनियन्स (AICCTU) के सचिव सूर्या प्रकाश और द वायर के पत्रकार पवन कोराड़ा के साथ चर्चा कर रही हैं मीनाक्षी.
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- Attempts by Modi Govt to Push Delimitation In A Hurry, Fails | Opposition Explains Why
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- 17 अप्रैल को संसद के विशेष सत्र के दूसरे दिन लोकसभा में संवैधानिक संशोधन विधेयक और परिसीमन से जुड़े महत्वपूर्ण विधेयकों पर चर्चा और वोटिंग हुए
12 साल में पहली बार, नरेंद्र मोदी की भारतीय जनता पार्टी की सरकार को लोकसभा में संवैधानिक संशोधन विधेयक पास कराने में नाकाम रही। यह मोदी सरकार के लिए बड़ा झटका माना जा रहा है
शुक्रवार को विशेष सत्र के दूसरे दिन हुई वोटिंग में संविधान (...
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- Modi-Shah's Push to Change Electoral Map Fails
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- The Narendra Modi government has failed to pass bills-The
Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 and delimitation through its stated objective of operationalising 33% reservation for women. The final vote in the Lok Sabha recorded 298 ‘ayes’ and 230 ‘noes’. There were 528 MPs present and voting. The government needed two-thirds majority to pass the bills, which was 352. It fell short by 54 votes.
While the government has blamed the opposition for not bringing in women's reservation, the opposition has hailed victory for stopping "an unconstitutional trick in the name of women."
The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Seema Chishti, editor, The Wire and Siddharth Varadarajan.
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- “BJP is not the people of India": Rahul Gandhi
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- संसद में मोदी सरकार की शर्मनाक हार विपक्ष ने कहा ‘अंत की शुरूआत’ | Arfa Khanum Sherwani
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- #delimitation2026 #parliamentsession #dmk #cmstalin #modi #amitshah #akhileshyadav #rahulgandhi #priyankagandhi #loksabha
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- Modi Govt's Three-Bill Push Fails in Lok Sabha
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Live: Lok Sabha to Hold Crucial Floor Test on Delimitation-Linked Women’s Reservation
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- The opposition has been vehemently opposing the three Bills, saying the Modi regime is using women’s reservation as a guise to push a politically motivated delimitation exercise. The prime minister, on the other hand, has told MPs to think of their “mothers and sisters” while they vote.
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- Bullsh*t Buster: Nari Vandan or Fix-Seats-for-2029?
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- In this video, we examine all the government’s claims about three bills introduced in Parliament including delimitation bill, including the claim that they do not affect Indian democracy in any way.
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- Saying “Magician” is Unparliamentary?By A Double Standard Production
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- "This Bill Is An Attempt To Change The Electoral Map of India"
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- ‘Delimitation Like This Meets Ideological Goals of RSS-BJP, Also Mirrors Pakistan’
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- BJP MPs Disrupt Rahul Gandhi's Speech, 'Stop Hiding Like Cowards,' He Says
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Gift of Nari Shakti Wrapped in Barbed Wire: Shashi Tharoor
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- 23 days ago
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- Black is the colour of protest: Kanimozhi Hits Back at Speaker, PM Modi
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Towards the end of Kanimozhi speech she responds to birla’s remark yesterday to dmk MP Baalu and said if black flags are being raised what has parliament got to do with it.
Modi in his speech said DMK black clothes will be black treks on bills.
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- No State’s Proportion of Seats Will Change After Delimitation: PM Modi in Lok Sabha
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- 23 days ago
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- “ये सरकार नक़ली देशभक्त है, ये असली देशभक्त की परवाह नहीं करते”
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- President Draupadi Murmu gave assent to the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) (General Administration) Bill, 2026, on April 9. Groups of retired Central Armed Police Forces personnel (CAPF)and family members of personnel in service protested against the bill, claiming it adversely affects the rights and services of CAPF personnel. We met such a retired group of CAPF officers to understand the issue in detail.
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- "There Will Be a Fierce Political Competition In The Years Ahead"
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Why Isn’t Govt Writing 50% Increase in seats in the Bill?: Asaduddin Owaisi
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- गुलाबी सारी में लपेट कर, महिलाओं को ढाल बना कर मोदी सरकार की परिसीमन पर मनमानी
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- ‘Delimitation Like This Meets Ideological Goals of RSS-BJP, Also Mirrors Pakistan’: Prof. Jaffrelot
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- “Real game not reservation for women but political reservation for BJP”
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- 24 days ago
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- Govt Ducks questions On Why Women’s Quota Act Notified After Amendment Tabled In House
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- 24 days ago
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- Is the lack of clarity about delimitation deliberate and designed to be deceptive?
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- There is confusion, concern and lack of clarity about the basis on which the government proposes to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies. Will it be on the basis of the 2011 census, which is what the bills themselves suggest, or will it be a 50% proportionate increase in the Lok Sabha and all the state assemblies, which is what unnamed spokespersons have assured yesterday’s newspapers? And does a 50% proportionate increase make the bills more acceptable to the opposition? Or do they still have serious reservations? Those are the issues Karan Thapar raises with the Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services of the Tamil Nadu government, P. Thiaga Rajan.
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- Is the Lack of Clarity About Delimitation Deliberate and Designed to Be Deceptive?
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- There is confusion, concern and lack of clarity about the basis on which the government proposes to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies. Will it be on the basis of the 2011 census, which is what the bills themselves suggest, or will it be a 50% proportionate increase in the Lok Sabha and all the state assemblies, which is what unnamed spokespersons have assured yesterday’s newspapers? And does a 50% proportionate increase make the bills more acceptable to the opposition? Or do they still have serious reservations? Those are the issues I shall raise with the Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services of the Tamil Nadu government, P. Thiaga Rajan. That’s live Friday the 17th at 10:30 a.m.
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- “The Election Commission Is The Key Player In This Election"
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Crucial elections will take place in West Bengal in two phases on April 23 and 29. Mamata Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress has to fight anti-incumbency, because it has been in power since 2011, and the main challenger the Bharatiya Janata Party sees its best opportunity to win the state.
This time, the Special Intensive Revision ordered by the Election Commission has also complicated matters since over 90 lakh voters have been struck off the rolls and between 30 and 34 lakh have appealed their removal.
The Trinamool Congress and other opposition parties have said that the Election Commission is playing a partisan role and helping the BJP.
“The Election commission is the key player in this election. It is election commission that has issued an ultimatum to the Trinamool Congress. It is the election commission that is taking the administration in their control,” said Snigdhendu Bhattacharya. In this election, it looks like Gyanesh ...
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- ‘Delimitation Like This Meets Ideological Goals of RSS-BJP, Also Mirrors Pakistan’: Prof. Jaffrelot
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- 24 days ago
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- Find out how, with Prof Christophe Jaffrelot, author, political scientist, scholar of South Asia with a keen understanding of India’s political landscape. He speaks to The Wire’s editor, Seema Chishti. He discusses the 1957 Jana Sangh manifesto which called for India as a ‘unitary’ state. States and regional identities have always worried the RSS and to have so many almost municipality like units, small constituencies, advance the centralisation project, eventually Akhand Bharat. There will be a fierce political competition in the years ahead. Hungary and how Orban has been overthrown and uprooted, offers another alternative future.
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- Parliament Live: Govt Introduces Bills on Delimitation, LS Expansion-Linked Women’s Reservation
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- 24 days ago
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- The Narendra Modi government plans to expand the size of the Lok Sabha from its current strength of 543 seats to as many as 850. It ties this decision to the reservation of a third of all parliamentary seats for women. But opposition parties have been vocal in their stance against it, as it will make representation correlative to population, which is concentrated on the belts which see the most support for the BJP. The government has introduced three Bills to implement these changes in the Lok Sabha. Watch the parliamentary discussion here.
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- Don’t Link Delimitation to Women’s Reservations: 60+ Rights Groups | Parliament Special Session
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- 24 days ago
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- Today in New Delhi, more than 60 women’s organisations and women working in the social sector held a press conference at the Press Club of India and presented their stand on three bills being debated in parliament.
In a petition submitted to Members of Parliament, women’s organisations said that women’s reservation should not be linked with the census and the upcoming delimitation.
As the Parliament’s special session is currently ongoing, they have also demanded that the women’s reservation bill and the delimitation bill should be kept separate.
The petition stated that any decision on increasing Lok Sabha seats and delimitation should be taken only after the completion of the upcoming 2027 census.
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- Delimitation Row : दक्षिणी राज्यों के मुकाबले, क्या UP, बिहार को मिल रहा है ज़्यादा फायदा?
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- आ रहा है नया क़ानून Modi नहीं हारेंगे अब कोई Electionविपक्ष की राजनीति ख़त्म?
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- Smells of Politics: Priyanka Gandhi on Delimitation, LS expansion Bills
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