In NEET row, TN harks back to an old debate: should education be in Concurrent List?
The Indira Gandhi govt brought education into the list giving both Centre and states say over it, through the wide-ranging 42nd Amendment.
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The Indira Gandhi govt brought education into the list giving both Centre and states say over it, through the wide-ranging 42nd Amendment.
It has frequently been propagated that Nehru was a champion of the highest democratic values. But history tells us something entirely different. He was always intolerant of press‘s scrutiny of his government. He was also deeply annoyed with the court‘s resistance to restrain critical observations made in the press
Given the sweep of the Ordinance, it is quite clear that the intent and purpose is to overturn the unanimous judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court. The Ordinance comes out as a constitutional fraud on the people of Delhi, its elected representatives and the Constitution
Imposed by the Indira Gandhi-led government on June 25, 1975, the national emergency led to a crackdown on the opposition, censorship of media and subversion of all democratic institutions of India
The problem of delay in according assent to Bills passed by the legislature is a burning issue that confronts our polity and quite often is an affront to our democracy and its fundamentals. Just a...