The Election Commission’s move in West Bengal to ban all political parties from campaigning after 10pm Thursday once again led to allegations of EC bias.
Iran foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in New Delhi Tuesday, less than two weeks after the US ended the exemptions from sanctions granted to India to import oil from Iran.
Justice Kurian Joseph has expressed ‘regret’ for his view on the National Judicial Appointments Commission, which he and three other judges struck down in 2015 as unconstitutional.
The Indian economy under the Narendra Modi government seems to have taken a beating. Reports of consumption and exports slowing down have recently emerged.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Exceedingly difficult to agree with any of Shri Mendiratta’s broad propositions. How much law did Shri T N Seshan and Shri James Michael Lyngdoh know ? Or, to put it differently, how can an IAS officer who has retired as Secretary to GoI be someone who does not have a knowledge of law ? The sad fact is that domain specialists – which includes lawyers – are told, Hum yeh karna chahte hain. Zara dekh lijiye. Eu achha sa Note file par record kar dijiye. That is what institutions like the ECI are expected to rise above.
Shri S K Mendiratta has a touching faith in how much good a “ judicial appointee “ will do. For the ECs to be appointed by a bipartisan Committee is a much delayed reform; it should cover several other regulators as well. However, this is tinkering at the margins. After the election, a conscious effort will have to be made to start the patient rebuilding of institutions. That includes the media as well. At the moment, the landscape is looking like Orissa after Fani.
Exceedingly difficult to agree with any of Shri Mendiratta’s broad propositions. How much law did Shri T N Seshan and Shri James Michael Lyngdoh know ? Or, to put it differently, how can an IAS officer who has retired as Secretary to GoI be someone who does not have a knowledge of law ? The sad fact is that domain specialists – which includes lawyers – are told, Hum yeh karna chahte hain. Zara dekh lijiye. Eu achha sa Note file par record kar dijiye. That is what institutions like the ECI are expected to rise above.
Shri S K Mendiratta has a touching faith in how much good a “ judicial appointee “ will do. For the ECs to be appointed by a bipartisan Committee is a much delayed reform; it should cover several other regulators as well. However, this is tinkering at the margins. After the election, a conscious effort will have to be made to start the patient rebuilding of institutions. That includes the media as well. At the moment, the landscape is looking like Orissa after Fani.