To address Women's Representation in State Assemblies and Parliament, discard the 33% Constitutional mandate, and incorporate the following in the relevant Laws. You may call this The Pink Law.
@IndiaToday In addition, there should be a chapter on twitter ethics - teaching the young students to not post certain thoughts on twitter, to avoid bad consequences.
@the_hindu@sinha_soumyadip resignation is just one tiny aspect, when compared to the electoral system that does not specify term-limits for elected members.
in this day and age, we should not be seeing one person being MLA or MP for 50+ years, with kith and kin continuing the abhorrent cycle.
@IndiaToday@ArkamoyM in india, people vote-in a political party for one or two specific reasons, which the winning-party conveniently ignores; and goes about implementing its own agenda.
if you question, they will say "people gave us the mandate" 😀
to succeed electorally, the congress party must capture the imagination of the voters, especially the 18-45 age cohort - and that cannot happen just by demonstrating anger against the current regime. promise alternate policy prescriptions to gain trust. else, wait for 2034!
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congress party, with a 20% spread-out vote share is the de facto alternative to bjp. however, it defeats itself by not presenting a firm alternative national policy framework on crucial issues like federalism, hindi imposition, education, economy, vehicle scrappage,
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The true significance of Rahul Gandhi’s June 8 address to the INDIA bloc leaders lies in its diagnosis and prescription. This is the first clear-eyed recognition by the Opposition of a watershed moment in our political life: India’s transition from competitive authoritarianism to electoral autocracy. This is also the first coherent articulation of a strategic shift: The Opposition’s transition from politics of electoral contestation to politics of resistance.
Read: https://t.co/wnBbsIkceC
with defections and dismemberment within opposition parties, one can safely assume that 2029 lok sabha elections to be a done deal from bjp's standpoint - it will retain its 240 and add 100 more from the hindi heart land and west bengal.
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@timesofindia it is interesting to note the glaring differences in the "first actions and immediate focus" of new chief ministers in south india versus new bjp chief ministers in bihar, west bengal, orissa and delhi.
India | Today, when girls and boys, men and women, detest interference in their personal lives by their own parents, here we have a central government dictating subjects, content and languages to be studied for 3rd standard kids!
@DeccanChronicle is it _only_ "women reservation bill" ???
anyways, what is the compulsion to follow a “slow, piecemeal destruction strategy" when they can do it all in a single shot?
@IndianExpress is there one politician in india, who is in politics to govern and do people-service?
everyone who actively seeks political power does so, to gain from sectors like - real estate, education, infrastructure and natural resources - quarries, river sand, etc. and govt contracts.