Tag: Constitution

BJP ‘hampering’ Ambedkar’s ideals of Constitution: DMK

The DMK on Saturday alleged that the BJP-led Centre was hampering BR Ambedkar’s ideals behind the making of the Indian Constitution. DMK’s working president MK Stalin said the Centre was working towards “weakening” social justice, without elaborating further. “The BJP-led Centre steered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working in a way (that is) hampering …

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April 14, 2018

Ambedkar’s vision of a secular Constitution

As the nation prepares to remember again its illustrious son Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on his birthday later this month and pays tribute to his seminal contribution to national life, one cannot help pondering over some recent controversies over the viability of some features of India’s Constitution, a stupendous charter of rights and duties of …

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April 6, 2018

Milords’ Indulgence

Democracy will be strengthened if stakeholders use the opportunity presented by the current crisis to address the imbalance in judiciary-executive relations, argues Ashok Kapur.

March 28, 2018

To live, and die, with dignity

A latest Constitution bench judgment of the apex Court has authoritatively held that “meaningful existence of a human being” includes his choice to die without suffering. The Court enunciated a broader legal framework protecting the dignity of terminally ill patients or patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS) with perceived less scope of recovery. The jurisprudence …

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March 22, 2018

Constitution is a legal and a social document: Jamir

the values for which the country stands and the goals for which we strive. It is not merely a legal document but a social document, said Odisha Governor Dr S C Jamir. The nation owes a lot to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and other great individuals, who played a pivotal role in the drafting of the …

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March 17, 2018

Constitution, State and secularism

The “Constitution is workable, flexible and strong enough to hold the country together both in peace time and in war time. If things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man is vile,” observed Dr. B R …

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March 14, 2018

Youth lynching: Kerala HC takes suomotu cognisance based on judge’s letter

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday took suomotu cognisance on tribal youth Madhu’s murder in Attappady, Palakkad, based on a letter written by the state legal services authority chairman Justice Surendra Mohan to Chief Justice Antony Dominic. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Antony Dominic and Justice Dama Sheshadri Naidu on Wednesday issued notice to …

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March 1, 2018

Why Tobacco is Res Extra Commercium?

Scientists and experts across the globe have unequivocally proved that tobacco use kills half of its users if they do not stop using tobacco (according to government sources tobacco consumption kills more than 900,000 people every year in India). Studies also suggest that tobacco, which is laced with nicotine, is a highly addictive substance, even …

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February 21, 2018

Basic tenets of Constitution under threat: Sitaram Yechury

As India celebrated its 69th Republic Day, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday said the basic tenets of the Constitution are “under grave threat”. “Greetings to all of us citizens on Republic Day. It was a momentous day when India adopted values and principles, way ahead of the times. We must, now push them …

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January 26, 2018

A Constitutional Travesty

When dysfunctional laws like the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Office of Profit law congregate to create a slothful and dysfunctional State, the hope of developmental politics evaporates. And when these dysfunctional laws are misused by those who came to power by propagandising high morality and clean politics, it vilifies the confidence of people. …

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January 24, 2018

Towards a police state

It is marching ahead in slow steps, relentlessly but surely. The world’s largest democracy is being nibbled at from inside and is getting corroded. A cruel irony, as it is supposed to function within the four corners of the democratic world’s finest written Constitution. The rule of law is largely benefiting the high and mighty, …

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January 24, 2018

Constitution is the greatest public policy: Justice Chelameswar

Supreme Court Judge, Justice J Chelameswar, on Saturday asked the youth to value the biggest public policy document – the Constitution of India- which was prepared by people who made great sacrifices for the country as freedom fighters. “The greatest public policy is the Indian constitution itself and the centre which created it is the …

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January 21, 2018

Why are we blind to inequality?

The concept that human beings should be equal is very old. It was the fight against injustice and inequality between the French royalty and the citizens that drove the 18th century intellectual Jean-Jacques Rousseau to write “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” These words sparked the French Revolution. Across the Atlantic …

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January 21, 2018

Finding fault with prayer

Is following Hindi, Hindu culture or being a Hindu a crime in this country? The latest example has come in the form of a petition filed by a person in the Supreme Court of India questioning the prayers recited in Kendriya Vidyalayas on the ground it promotes Hindutva. This prayer has been recited in all …

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January 17, 2018

Mamata’s NRC remark insult to Constitution, SC: Kailash

BJP national general secretary and the West Bengal observer Kailash Vijayvargiya today criticized chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks on the updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam. Issuing a statement, Mr Vijayvargiya said Miss Banerjee had insulted the Constitution and the Supreme Court with her remarks on the NRC in Assam. …

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January 6, 2018

Mamata’s remark on NRC insult to Constitution, SC: BJP

BJP national General Secretary Kailash Vijayvergiya on Friday criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerje for her remarks on the updation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, saying it was an insult to the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Banerjee’s comment was part of her “sinister political motives”, Vijayvergiya said. “The NRC is …

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January 5, 2018

Union Minister Hegde apologises for comment on amending Constitution

Facing severe backlash over his comments on amending the Constitution, Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde on Thursday apologised and said that the Constitution was supreme to him. The minister first issued a clarification outside Parliament before the day’s proceedings began and said: “Regarding the deadlock in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha due to my statement, …

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December 28, 2017