The President’s inclusion of classes and communities in the Central List for SEBC “shall be deemed to include SEBCs in relation to each State and Union Territory”.
By Ndatenda Njanike
THE Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has described government’s recent move to pass into substantive law, Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 as an attempt to erase the voices of three million Zimbabweans who voted in favour of the new Constitution in a 2013 referendum.
The Zanu PF-led government has come under fire for a spirited push to amend the constitution with future presidential candidates no longer obliged to select running mates while the President now has the prerogative to handpick judges to the bench without the jurists going through what were mandatory public interviews to determine their suitability to take up the esteemed jobs.
: Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 6:41 PM IST
Maratha reservation: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray-led delegation meets Guv Koshyari, submits letter addressed to Prez Kovind; read full text here
Maratha reservation: Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray-led delegation meets Guv Koshyari, submits letter addressed to Prez Kovind; here s the full text
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led delegation on Tuesday met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and handed over a letter addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind requesting the Central government to take steps to provide reservation for the Maratha community.
The delegation included Ashok Chavan, Ajit Pawar, Balasaheb Thorat, Eknath Shinde, Jayant Patil, Dilip Walse Patil, and Nana Patole.
It does not make sense that in a society with the age of majority and right to be elected to Parliament at 18, a person is regarded as unfit to cast a vote.
JULY 2019 to September 2019 was a momentous period for our young citizens because, in response to several youth-led initiatives, the government in Parliament secured passage of the Constitution (Amendment) Act 2019 (Act A1603) to make the following four changes to our electoral laws:
> Article 119(1) was amended to lower the voting age from 21 years to 18;
> Article 119(4) was amended to provide for automatic registration of voters;
> Article 47 was amended to reduce the qualifying age to 18 for contesting a seat in the Dewan Rakyat; and