Chennai, April 18 (IANS) Actor-politician Kamal Haasan has called for the immediate implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and State Assemblies, strongly opposing any move to link the measure with delimitation. Reacting after the fall of the delimitation-linked 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill, Haasan said a Private Member’s Bill has now been introduced by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament P. Wilson to provide women’s reservation with…
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New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Congress leaders launched a sharp attack on the Union government following the rejection of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, in the Lok Sabha, accusing it of lacking intent and politicising the issue of women’s reservation.Congress MP Imran Masood criticised the Union government’s approach, saying, “I had said it yesterday itself — they don’t want to do anything. For them, this was just event management, and it flopped. I had already said that this i…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday credited the Opposition INDIA bloc’s unity for the defeat of the Amendment Bill related to the women’s reservation in Lok Sabha. “The Amendment Bill has fallen. They used an unconstitutional trick in the name of women to break the Constitution. India has seen it. INDIA has stopped it. Hail the Constitution,” he said on social media platform X.Earlier, LoP Gandhi’s ‘magician’ barb, purportedly aimed at the P…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The Opposition may be celebrating perceived success in keeping the Union government from passing three key Constitution Amendment Bills in the Lok Sabha on Friday after two days of intense debate, but it lost the narrative. Its claim to champion social justice, caste enumeration, and reservation policies will need a rethink and retune, rendering it a political blow even in the midst of a “victory”. By framing the Opposition as anti-women and anti-OBC, the govern…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to authorities in Maharashtra and the management of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over allegations of an organised racket involving alleged religious conversion and sexual exploitation at the company’s Nashik office.A Bench presided by NHRC Member Priyank Kanoongo took cognisance of a complaint filed by the Legal Rights Observatory, alleging that such activities were being carried out within the TCS bra…
Amaravati, April 17 (IANS) The YSR Congress Party has welcomed the delimitation exercise in the Lok Sabha but demanded that the assurance given by the Union Government be legally incorporated into the Bill. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, YSRCP MP P. V. Midhun Reddy welcomed the statement made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding a proportionate increase in seats based on the existing strength of each state. However, he made it clear that an oral assurance is not sufficient and must be included…
Jaipur, April 16 (IANS) Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma met Union Minister of Jal Shakti Shri C.R. Paatil in New Delhi on Thursday during his visit to the national capital. During the meeting, the two leaders held detailed, meaningful discussions on key water-related initiatives and projects in the State of Rajasthan.The discussions focused on the progress of the Ram Jal Setu Link Project, which aims to strengthen inter-basin water transfer and improve water availability in the state. …
Bengaluru, April 15 (IANS) Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Wednesday strongly opposed the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise, terming it a “political re-engineering” at the cost of southern states.In a media statement, Shivakumar said the proposal to increase the number of Lok Sabha seats from 543 to 850 would systematically reduce the representation of southern states while rewarding regions with unchecked population growth, alleging that the move amounts to “punishing p…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has filed an additional affidavit before the Delhi High Court in support of his plea seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma from hearing the CBI’s revision petition in the alleged Delhi excise policy case, alleging that the judge’s immediate family members hold continuing legal engagements with the Central government. In the fresh affidavit filed in the pending recusal …
Chennai, April 15 (IANS) The DMK in Tamil Nadu has emerged at the forefront of opposition to the Union government’s proposed delimitation exercise, which seeks to increase the number of Lok Sabha seats based on population growth, triggering concerns across southern states.The current strength of the Lok Sabha stands at 543 members, based on the 1971 Census when India’s population was around 550 million.With the population now exceeding 1.4 billion, the Centre is planning to expand parliament…