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Can we use the new Parliament to give up old habits?

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, Sept 18, 2023
Resources and changes in Constitution can help strengthen Parliament but key is for legislature to respect it as a forum for debate The much anticipated special session of Parliament begins today. There was intense speculation about its purpose when the government announced th...
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Ronojoy Sen’s House of the People provides a wide-ranging and nuanced account of the centrality of Parliament in India’s socio-political life

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Aug 26, 2023
The Indian Parliament is the country’s most open institution regarding data about its functioning. It records its daily proceedings meticulously, and reports of its committees are rich in detail and insight. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have made their records electronically accessible ...
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Motion = Commotion

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, August 12, 2023
The no confidence debate showed govt-opposition acrimony has reached new levels. Parliament can look at other democracies’ legislatures for ways to reduce political noise The no confidence motion is a rarely used parliamentary tool opposition uses to hold government accountable. In the 75 y...
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Why no-trust vote matters

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, July 27, 2023
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday admitted a motion of no-confidence against the government moved by Congress Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi after a headcount of 50 MPs required under the rules. The motion has been supported by constituents of the opposition INDIA alliance and the Bha...
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Adjournment Motion, Rule 267: Ways to seek urgent discussion in Parliament

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, July 23, 2023
In 1952, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha published their respective Rules of Procedure. These Rules laid down the details of how the two Houses would function. They also specified the different procedural mechanisms by which Members of Parliament (MPs) could participate in the functioning of the two ...
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Democracy’s new home needs a structural uplift

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, May 27, 2023
A modern infrastructure for the functioning of our national legislature is essential. With the inauguration of the new Parliament, we will have a state-of-the-art facility, enabling more convenience and efficiency in the sessions of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Parliament is also investing in tech...
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The anti-defection law is failing in its purpose

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, May 15, 2023
Are you sure we are winning so comfortably?” the senior Congress leader’s voice on the phone sounded anxious. It was the night before counting day in Karnataka where an AxisMyIndia exit poll for India Today predicted a big win for the Congress. I asked the leader why he was so ...
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Amid Ravi-Stalin clash, a frosty past in Tamil Nadu House

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, April 16, 2023
The Tamil Nadu government led by Chief Minister M K Stalin and the state’s Governor R N Ravi have been at loggerheads for some time. An ongoing disagreement is regarding the inordinate delay in the Governor assenting to Bills passed by the state legislature. Read mo...
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A strategy to resurrect our parliamentary discourse

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, April 1, 2023
In 1926, while writing in the Asiatic Review journal, parliamentary reporter Edwin Haward compared the proceedings of the House of Commons in London with the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, and decided in favour of the latter. Read more. ...
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Governor versus state: Why tensions are rising again

MR Madhavan, Times of India, March 11, 2023
The role of governors is in the news again. Their actions across several states — Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal — have been questioned. Recently, the Supreme Court had to hear a case where the governor of Punjab did not summon the assembly after the cabinet’s recomme...
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A law passed by Parliament could help improve Supreme Court’s Election Commission ruling

MR Madhavan, Moneycontrol, March 09, 2023
The Supreme Court ruling devising a three-member committee to select the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs) was a landmark judgment.  The committee is going to consist of the Prime Minister, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha or the leader of the single la...
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The curious case of the disqualification of a politician

MR Madhavan, The Hindu, Feb 20, 2023
The instance where the Kerala High Court, in January this year, suspended the verdict passed by the Kavaratti District and Sessions Court (in an attempt to murder case) in which the then sitting Member of Parliament (MP) of Lakshadweep and Nationalist Congress Party leader P.P. Mohamm...
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An Expert Explains: Speech of MPs, checks & reporting, tech-age disconnect

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Feb 13, 2023
On February 9, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar protesting the “directions…made by the Chair to authenticate six observations” he had made during his speech in the House the previous day. Kharge pointed out that Pa...
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Once upon a Budget – and a 10 pm session

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2023
The 1970 Budget is not remembered for the procedural slip-up but for the change in its tone. Until then, Budget speeches were a dry recitation of facts as FMs had yet to start using poetry and couplets. Saturday, February 28, 1970, was a special Budget day in Parliament. Prime Minister Indira Gan...
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Judiciary vs legislature: A story from 1964

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Jan 08, 2023
In the history of Indian democracy, the constitutional crisis in Uttar Pradesh in 1964 is one of the earliest examples of a confrontation between the judiciary and the legislature that led to the “derailment” of the “governance apple cart”. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar ...
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Why inter-faith marriages will make news this year

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, Jan 02, 2023
Laws related to religious conversions repeatedly made headlines in 2022. During the year, the state legislatures in Karnataka and Haryana made laws prohibiting forced religious conversions. A few months before elections in Himachal Pradesh, the state legislature amended the freedom of...
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Building a legislative road map for India

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, Jan 01, 2023
This year, Parliament will move from its 90-plus-year-old building to a new one. As part of that transition, it should reimagine its rules to make the institution more deliberative and one that scrutinises laws more thoroughly. 2022 was a turbulent year for our national legislature. There were co...
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