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Women's Reservation Bill - Positive Change is just "this" close...

Tue, 2010-03-09 15:15 — srinir

 As I write this, 7 unruly members of parliament belonging to errant political parties - the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal in particular, have been suspended for their pathetic conduct yesterday in the Rajya Sabha. These legislators were doing their worst to prevent the Women's Reservation Bill, which now enjoys a great degree of majority support in both Houses of the Indian Parliament. This post quickly brings out some facets about the idea of quota-based representation in legislatures all across the world. 

The Congress' pusillanimity and "real" interests

Tue, 2010-03-09 01:37 — srinir
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 A blog post on the belied expectations on Women's Day today.

Cash for vote sham

Wed, 2008-12-24 10:55 | EPW Editorial
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Lack of due diligence and a seeming dependence on political considerations, point to the futile nature of the investigations by the Kishore Chandra Deo led parliamentary committee

Says an Economic and Political Weekly editorial on the Cash for vote scam and its investigation.

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EPW

Resist This Undermining Of Our Parliamentary Democracy

Sat, 2008-11-08 13:10 | Nilotpal Basu

''To the best of one’s knowledge, the session which was summoned on July 17, 2008 primarily to enable the trust vote on July 21-22 will now end somewhere in the third or fourth week of December, if one were to believe the government. This is the longest ever session of the parliament notwithstanding the fact that it will simultaneously create a record of sorts in terms of the least number of sittings. Parliament has hardly been treated with such utter contempt ever before.''

Nilotpal Basu writes in People's Democracy

Memorandum and Statement

Fri, 2008-10-24 18:56 | Left Front, BSP, TDP, and JD(S)

Memorandum Submitted to Hon'ble President of India

September 9, 2008

Dear Respected Rashtrapathiji,

We, the undersigned leaders of political parties represented in the Parliament, register our strong protest against the decision of the government to jettison the monsoon session of the Parliament. This, we consider, is a deliberate manipulation of established traditions concerning the sessions of Parliament since independence.