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Upper Houses in Legislatures: who and what do they actually represent?
India
Updated: Friday, January 8, 2021, 16:24 [IST]
The heart-beat of representative democracy is the working of legislative institutions which represent the citizens. In recent times, the role and functioning of such legislative bodies have come under close scrutiny. The recent suicide by the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council in Karnataka, a few weeks after he was dragged out of the Presiding Officers Chair, is still fresh in public memory. The unseemly events witnessed in the Karnataka Legislative Council raise a host of questions not just about Legislative Councils in particular but on the working of bodies that are expected to mirror public opinion and sentiments. ....

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