NEW DELHI: Just days ahead of high-stakes assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the campaign took an abrupt turn after the Center decided to propose expanding the Lok Sabha from 543 to 850 seats through re-drawing of constituencies and reserving 33 per cent seats for women.Although the proposal was defeated in Parliament, the issue has not … Read more
New Delhi: The government on Sunday published a series of FAQs on its bill to fast-track women quota in the legislature and increase Lok Sabha seats by 50 per cent, which has now been defeated in the Lok Sabha as part of a campaign to debunk what it called “false and misleading narratives” by the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The victorious opposition hailed the failure of the constitutional amendment as a failure of delimitation and not of women’s reservation.After the opposition’s victory in the polls, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi spoke to TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee and thanked him for his support.There are fears that only a few of the TMC’s 28 MLAs may turn … Read more
Amit Shah and Akhilesh Yadav New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday suggested that proceedings in the Lok Sabha be suspended for an hour so that he could move a formal amendment that the number of seats in each state would be increased by 50 per cent after delimitation.“If the argument against the … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi The introduction of the women’s reservation bill on Friday sparked accusations and uproar from the opposition. He made vague references to the number “16” several times during his speech in the House of Commons without clearly explaining what it meant.Amid frequent … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Opposition charges on Thursday that the proposed delimitation would result in lower shares for southern states were at the heart of their refusal to back three bills to amend women’s quota laws and set up a delimitation commission. Addressing the Lok Sabha, the Prime Minister said, “I say with … Read more
Coimbatore: Former Union Minister P Chidambaram It was claimed on Wednesday that the central government’s move to increase the seats in the Lok Sabha by 50 per cent in the name of “delimitation” is a deceptive strategy aimed at systematically weakening the political influence of the southern states.The senior Congress leader, speaking to reporters in … Read more
NEW DELHI: Counting every person in a country of over 1.4 billion people is not an easy task. India is currently gearing up for one of the world’s largest census exercises – the 2027 Census.The national census was originally scheduled to be conducted in 2021, in line with the ten-year census cycle that India has … Read more