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As govt delimitation fails, DMK’s counter| India News

As govt delimitation fails, DMK’s counter| India News

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A day after the BJP-led NDA government’s Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill failed the Parliament test — it sought to hasten the implementation of 33% women’s quota in legislatures — Tamil Nadu’s ruling party DMK proposed a private member’s bill instead, delinking the reservation from any change in the total number and boundaries of constituencies. Opposition stance (PTI) The DMK bill proposed to implement the 33% reservation from the very next election, on the existing 543-seat Lok Sabha, without any seat-increase, delimitation, or census data new or old. The bill, by DMK MP Wilson, is any Opposition party’s most direct legislative response so far to the BJP’s charge that rival parties blocked women’s reservation altogether. But both Houses were adjourned indefinitely on Friday, hence the bill could not be taken up for now. Delimitation question The women’s quota was originally passed with almost all-party support in 2023; the question now was over a “hasty” delimitation being proposed based on the old, 2011 Census data, without addressing larger questions of regional distribution of seats and caste sub-quotas, …

‘India Is Hindu Nation, No Constitutional Approval Needed’: RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat | India News

‘India Is Hindu Nation, No Constitutional Approval Needed’: RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat | India News

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Last Updated:December 21, 2025, 22:22 IST Bhagwat said the organisation has long believed that India is a ‘Hindu Nation’ because of its culture and the religious traditions followed by the majority of its people. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. (Image: PTI/File) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday highlighted the importance of Indian culture, saying that India is a “Hindu nation” and no constitutional approval is needed for the same as it’s “truth”. Speaking at an event marking 100 years of the RSS, Bhagwat stressed that India will remain a Hindu nation until Indian culture is appreciated in the country. “The Sun rises in the east; we don’t know when this has been happening. So, do we need constitutional approval for that, too? Hindustan is a Hindu nation. Whoever considers India their motherland appreciates Indian culture, as long as there is even one person alive on the land of Hindustan who believes in and cherishes the glory of Indian ancestors, India is a Hindu nation. This is the ideology of the Sangh,” he said …

JPC holds first meeting to discuss 130th Constitution amendment

JPC holds first meeting to discuss 130th Constitution amendment

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The joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on 130th Constitution amendment held its first meeting on Thursday and decided to meet the parties that have boycotted the panel and visit states, even as the Opposition questioned the motive of the bill in the first sitting. Earlier, defending the bills, Union home minister Amit Shah had said, when the Constitution was framed, its makers could not have imagined that in the future, political leaders would refuse to resign on moral grounds even after being arrested. The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 20 this year, aims to remove the Prime Minister, chief ministers or ministers facing corruption or serious offence charges if they remain in detention for 30 consecutive days. Prime Ministers have also been kept under the ambit of the bill. The two other bills have been brought to apply similar provisions to Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry, and Jammu & Kashmir. Many INDIA bloc parties, including the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Left, the Dravida …

Lok Sabha extends tenure of Parliament committee on ONOP bill | Latest News India

Lok Sabha extends tenure of Parliament committee on ONOP bill | Latest News India

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The Lok Sabha on Tuesday gave an extension to the 39-member joint parliamentary committee (JPC), which is examining two bills aimed to usher in simultaneous state and national polls, till the first day of the last week of the monsoon session to submit its report. JPC meeting on the Constitution Amendment Bill met under the chairmanship of JPC Chairman, PP Chaudhary, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (ANI PHOTO) The development came on a day attorney general R Venkatramani backed the simultaneous elections plan and told JPC that the legislation did not trample on any feature of the Constitution and were good in law, said people aware of developments. Venkatramani argued that the two bills — the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, which aims to conduct simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and state assemblies, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which seeks to align the assembly elections of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry for simultaneous elections — did not require any further changes. But former Delhi high court chief justice …

Law Panel May Propose Simultaneous Polls In 2029, Add Chapter In Constitution

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Law Commission may recommend adding a new chapter to the Constitution on ‘one nation, one election’ New Delhi: The Law Commission is likely to recommend adding a new chapter to the Constitution on ‘one nation, one election’ and holding the gigantic democratic exercise of simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies across the country by mid-2029, sources said today. The Commission, under Justice (retd) Ritu Raj Awasthi, would recommend an amendment to the Constitution to add the “new chapter or part” on simultaneous elections, the sources told Press Trust of India. The panel would also recommend synchronising the terms of legislative assemblies in “three phases” in the next five years so that the first simultaneous polls could be held in May-June 2029 when elections for the 19th Lok Sabha are due. The new chapter in the Constitution would include issues related to “simultaneous election”, “sustainability of simultaneous elections” and “common electoral roll” for Lok Sabha, state legislative assemblies, panchayats and municipalities so that the three-tier simultaneous polls could be held together “in …