Speaking in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Chief Minister MK Stalin asked, "How long must we continue in a position where they give and we merely receive?"
The decision to repeal a long-standing rural employment guarantee and replace it with a new framework has reopened a fundamental debate about how India understands welfare, work, and federalism.
He said according to this Bill, if a minister is sentenced to 5 years in any case and spends 30 days in jail, he will have to step down from his post.
“At a time when States need more powers, their rights are being taken away in key areas such as education and healthcare,” he said, accusing the Centre of encroaching on State powers and making them increasingly dependent on Delhi.
In yet another blow to Tamil Nadu, the Union Government has nixed the NEET exemption Bill, passed by the state assembly twice and referred for Presidential assent.
The Congress has lent its full support to regional forces fighting to strengthen the federal structure of the country and taking on the central government to block its “unfair and unjust” delimitation of Lok Sabha seats.
He described the entire proposal as ‘a move to satisfy the BJP’s ego and asserted that Indian democracy cannot be bent to suit the greed of one party’.
The SC may have correctly observed that in case it was intended to make the GST Council a decision-making authority, such a qualification would have been included in articles 246A or 279A. But to treat the GST legislations mechanically without considering their long and arduous journey through the maze of our treacherous political system over a period spanning more than three decades would be tantamount to severely undermining the promise held out by GST to transform India into a common market by supplanting our antiquated, multi-layered, multi-point, multi-tax system circumscribed by an odious Inspector Raj.
Nepal is a diverse country with more than a hundred ethnic and language communities. For a long time, its unitary and centralised system of governance was unable to address the concerns of these diverse communities.
It has been iterated that officers would be posted on Central deputation only in consultation with the States but also been made clear that "once the number of officers to come on deputation to the Centre is fixed after mutual consultation, the Central Government should have overriding powers to get those officers"
