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Parliament Winter Session Protests Over Amit Shah’s “Ambedkar Is The Fashion” Remark. New Delhi: Parliament’s winter session – its final week roiled by mud-slinging and protests by MPs over Amit Shah’s “Ambedkar is the fashion” remark and disruptions and fractious debates over the ‘one nation, one election’ push – concluded Friday afternoon, with a stern…
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New Delhi: Two bills to amend the Constitution – and allow simultaneous federal and state elections by 2034 – were sent to a 39-member joint parliamentary committee Friday morning, as the final act of a Lok Sabha winter session roiled by unseemly Congress vs BJP, protest vs counterprotest drama over Home Minister Amit Shah’s “Ambedkar…
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New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday held a division vote to introduce two bills to amend the Constitution and permit simultaneous federal and state polls, as part of the ruling BJP’s ‘one nation, one election’ push. The bills were passed by simple majority, as required by the rulebook; 269 MPs voted in favour and…
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New Delhi: A Constitutional amendment bill – to permit holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections together, part of the ‘one nation, one election’ push – will likely be tabled in the Lok Sabha this morning, and then be sent to a parliamentary committee. Here are the top 10 points in this big story: Union Law…
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The Union Cabinet has approved two bills to hold the parliamentary and assembly polls concurrently. New Delhi: A constitutional amendment bill for holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously is likely to be introduced in Parliament on Tuesday and could be referred to a joint committee of the two Houses. A top government functionary said…
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