Tag: Indian politics

Northeast polls: Adityanath says ‘important day in Indian politics’

Jubilation swept across Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters in the northeast as it emerged that the party was set to form a government in Left-bastion of Tripura and Nagaland. In Meghalaya, the party was leading in six seats. Addressing the media, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath praised his party’s performance in the three northeastern...

March 3, 2018

Political factors to weigh more on economy: Assocham

India Inc will have to factor in political realities weighing on economic decisions of the government, including in the forthcoming budget, as several major states are going to polls in 2018, Assocham said on Sunday. “In the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, states including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka are due for...

December 17, 2017

Congress will defeat politics of hate: Rahul Gandhi

In his first speech after formally taking over as new Congress President, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of taking the country back to “medieval times” and the BJP of dividing people and spreading hatred. “BJP breaks, we join. They set fire, we douse it. They spread hate, we spread love. They...

December 16, 2017

National Lok Adalat disposes of 17,219 cases in J-K

A total of 17,219 cases were disposed of across Jammu and Kashmir during the National Lok Adalat, State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) said on Sunday. The National Lok Adalat was organised on Saturday across the state at the high court, district and tehsil level under the patronage of Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, Chief Justice of Jammu...

December 10, 2017

Politics shouldn’t be so confrontational

It has been customary to label political forces in a country as being of the left and the right. The more nuanced division between left-of-centre and right-of-centre forces has also been in vogue to cover the growing diversity of political parties. In the specific context of India, the balance of power has clearly shifted from...

August 24, 2017

Law, Morality and Indian Politics

Contra legem facit, qui id facit quod lex prohibit, in fraudem uero, Quisaluis uerbis legis sententiam eius circumuenit One who does what a Statute forbids transgresses the Statute; one who contravenes the intention of a Statute, without disobeying its actual words, commits a fraud on it. It is a mistake to generalise two opposing theories...

January 11, 2017

Law, Morality and Indian Politics

Contra legem facit, qui id facit quod lex prohibit, in fraudem uero, Quisaluis uerbis legis sententiam eius circumuenit One who does what a Statute forbids transgresses the Statute; one who contravenes the intention of a Statute, without disobeying its actual words, commits a fraud on it. It is a mistake to generalise two opposing theories...

January 11, 2017