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New Delhi: Finance Commission Chairman Arvind Panagariya in an affirmation to the idea of ‘One Nation, One Election’ explained that frequent elections do not give enough opportunities to the government to carry out reforms. NK Singh, the former Chairman of the Finance Commission, also supported ‘One Nation, One Election’ as a key area of economic…
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Even in a competitive democracy where political rivals joust fiercely and yet maintain a semblance of informed and civil discourse, it is a difficult task to push through legislation on contentious issues. When a competitive democracy becomes deeply polarised, to the extent that civil discourse is replaced by bitterness, abuse and mistrust, legislation of any…
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: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari are on the Congress’ list of nominees to a joint parliamentary committee that will study the ‘one nation, one election’ Constitution Amendment Bill that was tabled in Parliament yesterday, sources told NDTV Wednesday afternoon. Mr Tewari was the first opposition leader to speak out against the ‘one…
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New Delhi: The BJP will send notices to MPs who were not present in the Lok Sabha today during the introduction of the government’s flagship “One Country One Election Bill”, sources have told NDTV. More than 20 BJP MPs were absent during the division of the house, sources said. The party had earlier sent a…
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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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The Centre will introduce the amendment bill in Lok Sabha on Monday. New Delhi: The Centre will introduce a bill to amend ‘The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019’ in Lok Sabha next week, to integrate the Union Territory with its ‘One Nation, One Election’ initiative, a senior government official told NDTV. “The existing Union…