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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Maansi Verma
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Maansi Verma
government Majoritarian governments do not like fetters on their powers to amend the constitution. There is a reason why India is an example of this. Representative image. Preamble of the Indian Constitution. Photo: Wikipedia Advertisement While the deliberation deficit is concerning with respect to ordinary government bills, it becomes alarming with respect to bills which seek to amend the Indian constitution.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Vinodh Arulappan |Maansi Verma
Thamizhachi Thangapandian, also known as Sumathy, hails from Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu. She is contesting for the second time in the Lok Sabha elections representing the DMK party in the Chennai South constituency. A poet, writer, educationist and theatre person, Thamizhachi entered politics following the footsteps of her father late V Thangapandian, who was a minister in the DMK government under M Karunanidhi.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Maansi Verma |Navya P K
How do you check if your name is on the electoral rolls? How do you locate your polling booth? Who are the candidates in your constituency? Can you still vote if you don’t have a voter ID card? Follow the Citizen Matters voters guide for quick answers to these questions and more. Election of the 18th Lok Sabha will be conducted in seven phases in all starting April 19 and ending on June 1 2024. Counting of votes is scheduled on June 4.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
citizenmatters.in | Maansi Verma |Navya P K |Shruti Gokarn |Sravasti Datta
In its recently released Manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024, the IndianNational Congress has promised to bring some much needed reforms in the Indian Parliament.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
verfassungsblog.de | Maansi Verma
India is undergoing a “deliberation backsliding”. The data and numbers confirm this. As per analysis undertaken by PRS Legislative Research, a not-for-profit think tank tracking the Indian Parliament, since the current government was elected to office in 2019, only 13% of all government bills introduced in Parliament were referred to Parliament Committees for detailed study, scrutiny and stakeholder consultations.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
ipanewspack.com | Maansi Verma
By Maansi VermaLaw can be an instrument for good. It can also be a tool to undertake ‘warfare’ or ‘lawfare’, including by a government against its ‘own’ citizens in a democracy because democracy is not always about consent, it is as much about coercion. Kashmir stands as a starkly poignant example of a coercive democracy brought about by lawfare.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
theleaflet.in | Maansi Verma
The underlying message of the revocation of Article 370 was that the mandate received by the BJP in the 2019 general elections in India negates the need for any participatory resolution of the political question of Kashmir. —LAW can be an instrument for good. It can also be a tool to undertake ‘warfare’ or ‘lawfare’, including by a government against its ‘own’ citizens in a democracy because democracy is not always about consent, it is as much about coercion.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Maansi Verma
If raising a child takes a village, sustaining a democracy takes the whole nation. And we are failing at that. Collectively and rapidly. One of the surest signs of a failing democracy is the ill health of its institutions, particularly the institutions designed to check power. Like the Indian Parliament. Whatever may be the purpose of a parliament in our imagination, the Constitution envisages it as a representative, law making, accountability seeking institution.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
thewire.in | Maansi Verma
The year 2024 was ushered in with the news that the three new criminal laws, passed by both Houses of Parliament only a few days ago, have been challenged before the Supreme Court. Notably, according to media reports, the petition states that the Bills were “enacted without any parliamentary debate” as most Opposition MPs were suspended.
