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Red carpet, red scare: When another US V-P came to India

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, April 27, 2025
During his just concluded four-day tour of India, US Vice-President (V-P) James David Vance and his family visited the Akshardham temple, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visited Jaipur, where the 40-year-old V-P gave a public lecture. The visit ended with a family photograph before the Taj Maha...
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In 1976, an ‘absent’ MP and a dash to save his seat

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Feb 23, 2025
Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Amritpal Singh is apprehensive of losing his parliamentary seat. The Independent MP from Punjab is also in charge of Waris Punjab De, a pro-Khalistan group. He faces charges under the National Security Act and has been in jail since 2023. Recently, Amritpal approached ...
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King George V’s visit to India, a printing press and a leak: Why the Budget is a well-kept secret in India

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Feb 3, 2025
Finance Minister Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh and Bombay Chief Minister Morarji Ranchhodji Desai had a wildly different day on February 29, 1956. Deshmukh spent his day in Delhi, closeted with officials. A former civil servant and the first Indian to become the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor...
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Is Dhankhar right about the whip system?

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Feb 1, 2025
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has raised an issue that can rejuvenate our legislative institutions. While interacting with students on January 23, he said, “Why should there be a whip? Whip means you are curtailing expression, curtailing freedom, and subjecting your representative to servili...
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Republic Day Special: How the passport mapped the journey of India and kept up with its milestones

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Jan 27, 2025
In 1947, when we got our independence from the British, the country’s name became India. In the Constituent Assembly, our Constitution framers debated the name we would give ourselves as a republic. In addition to India, names that came up were Bharat, Bharat Varsha, Hindustan, Hind and Bharat...
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India That is Bharat: An Introduction to the Constitutional Debates discusses issues that still resonate

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Aug 18, 2024
Books that get straight to the point are refreshing. The author works hard to separate the grain from the chaff, letting the reader quickly reach the crux of the matter. India that is Bharat: An Introduction to the Constitutional Debates by P Rajeeve is one such book. Rajeeve is current...
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Shaky law, unsound for investment in Karnataka

MR Madhavan, The Hindu, July 22, 2024
The Karnataka Cabinet approved and then put on hold a Bill mandating reservation in private sector jobs for local residents. The Bill not only makes the State unattractive for investments, but may also violate the Constitution. The Bill defines a local candidate as anyone who was born in Karnatak...
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How Lutyens Delhi became an address for members of both Houses

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, June 30, 2024
Delhi churns every five years. The general election results decide the political fate of incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs), and there are new public representatives and their ideas for the country. Besides its broader impact on Parliament and governance, this churning has a personal dimension. E...
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Om shanti om?

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, June 27, 2024
A contested election for the post of Lok Sabha Speaker is a sign of a broadening divide between treasury and opposition benches. Before Independence, contests for the position of president (equivalent of modern-day Speaker) were quite common. In the first election in 1925, Vithalbhai Patel defeated ...
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18th Lok Sabha session begins today: How do MPs take oath? What happens if an MP is in jail?

Chakshu Roy, Manas Gubbi, Indian Express, June 25, 2024
The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will start on Monday. Before the House can begin its legislative functioning, the newly elected members will have to take the oath of Members of Parliament (MP), which is provided in the Constitution. The day will begin in Rashtrapati Bhavan, where Bha...
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As Modi heads a coalition, which was India’s first such government?

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, June 10, 2024
In the recently concluded general elections, voters did not give the Bharatiya Janata Party a complete majority. The BJP, with its 240 Lok Sabha seats, is forming the government along with its coalition partners of the National Democratic Alliance. Coalitions at the national level came to public ...
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Central Hall: Where Modi addressed NDA, historic venue in Parliament

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, June 8, 2024
Three days after the 2024 Lok Sabha election results, in a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Friday (June 7), Prime Minister Narendra Modi was unanimously elected as the coalition’s Parliamentary Party leader. The event took place at the Cent...
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History Headline: How India’s first voters got their ballot box

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, May 5, 2023
The Lok Sabha elections are in full swing. The third voting phase, scheduled for May 7, is a crucial milestone. This phase will witness all 26 seats in Gujarat and the remaining half of 14 seats in Karnataka going to polls. Once this phase concludes, voters will have exercised their franchise for mo...
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How EVMs came into being: A brief history

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, April 19, 2024
Elections are the heartbeat of a democracy. When India became independent, sceptics thought a poor and illiterate nation would fail to keep democracy alive. Elections are the heartbeat of a democracy. When India became independent, sceptics thought a poor and illiterate nation would fail to keep ...
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History Headline | 1920: The start of India’s election journey

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, April 16, 2024
In 1920, Delhi resident Abdul Majid came to the attention of the British government. He was someone who would ordinarily not be on the administration’s radar. His description varied from petty trader to sweetmeat seller and confectioner. In November that year, he filed nomination papers to con...
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Take note, netas : Taking notes just became dangerous

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, March 4, 2024
What led to SC’s judgment on legislators & bribes? What had SC said earlier? What are the implications? Supreme Court has overturned its 1998 judgment on the PV Narasimha Rao bribery case. The earlier judgment protected MPs and MLAs for accepting bribes to vote ...
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History Headline: 60 years ago, when a Rajya Sabha election was declared void

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, March 3, 2024
Last month, the Election Commission of India (ECI) held polls to fill 56 Rajya Sabha seats from 14 states. Without the vibrancy of a direct election, Rajya Sabha polls are usually lacklustre affairs. There are no big political rallies or a large electorate that candidates need to reach out...
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How to fix India’s election funding

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, Feb 17, 2024
Financial support to political parties has a chequered history in India. The striking down of electoral bonds scheme by Supreme Court is opportunity to rethink the framework regulating corporate contributions in our political process. Before this, taking stock of developments over the last 75 years ...
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66 years ago, an idea for a House session in South

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Feb 12, 2024
North-South politics hogged the limelight towards the end of the 17th Lok Sabha. First, Congress MP from Karnataka, D K Suresh, said that the people of South India might have to demand a separate country if “the injustice of not providing the rightful share of taxes (to the southern states) co...
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Let them speak: Suspension of MPs shows Parliament must find better ways to engage

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Dec 20, 2023
The absence of procedural mechanisms for deliberating on contentious issues is at the heart of parliamentary dysfunction. It has led to the current impasse between the government and the Opposition and the resulting unprecedented situation. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha suspended 141 Opposition Members ...
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Long before Mahua Moitra, the first MP to face cash-for-query charges

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Dec 17, 2023
  At about 10 am on September 24, 1951, Hucheshwar Gurusidha Mudgal stood up to clear his name in Parliament. Mudgal was a member of the Provisional Parliament, the national legislature that preceded the first elected Lok Sabha in 1952. September had been a busy month for this law-ma...
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Secure Parliament but don’t shut out people

Chakshu Roy, Times of India, Dec 14, 2023
A short history of India’s legislative chambers shows why the December 13 breach shouldn’t lead to limited public access The inviolability of legislatures is at the heart of democracy. Yesterday, two irresponsible citizens broke this basic tenet. They opened a smoke canister and jumpe...
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Parliament and its discontents

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, Dec 11, 2023
On December 8, the Lok Sabha expelled one of its members, Mahua Moitra, from the membership of the House. The minister for parliamentary affairs Pralhad Joshi, moved a motion for her expulsion. It stated that Moitra’s conduct (of sharing her parliamentary credentials and accepting money and am...
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A visually striking milestone of our constitutional history

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2023
There are a few defining dates in our country’s democratic journey; November 26 is one of them. On this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly adopted our Constitution after extensive deliberations. Following a suggestion by six-time Lok Sabha MP Bhartruhari Mahtab, in 2015, the government...
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Revamping the criminal justice system to fit the bill

MR Madhavan, The Hindu, Nov 11, 2023
The Government has introduced three Bills to replace the core laws, i.e., the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act (IEA), 1872, which form the basis of the criminal justice system. These Bills are being examined by the...
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Cricket and policies: When countries got bowled over

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Nov 5, 2023
India, Australia and South Africa are currently the top three teams in the cricket World Cup. All three are former British colonies with a rich cricketing history and a spirited following. And wherever there are people and passions involved, politics and policy follow close behind. The political par...
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In poll season, notes from a close fight, a hung House

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Oct 16, 2023
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi recently remarked that the upcoming electoral contest in Rajasthan was “very close” but he hoped his party would pull it off nevertheless. There have been a few close elections in the state, and one of them was in 1967. The general elections that...
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A building that bore witness to the odyssey of democratic India

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, Sept 19, 2023
The need for the building was born out of the constitutional reforms of 1919 known also as the Montagu Chelmsford Reforms. Nostalgia vied for space with politics on Monday as the special session of Parliament opened to bid farewell to the grand colonial building that nurtured a nascent democracy ...
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As Parliament turns 75, the ‘backbone’ that keeps it going — its secretariat

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Sept 19, 2023
We can look at the 75-year journey of our Parliament through many lenses. One could be statistical. Like the number of days that Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha worked, and the number of laws they made. Or, it could be about the Members of Parliament (MPs) whose debates shaped legislation, cornered the go...
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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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Parliamentary Committees strengthening the scope and role

Alaya Purewal, MR Madhavan, Yojana - September 2023, Sept 17, 2023
Parliamentary Committees serve an important role in scrutinising the work of the Government and improving the quality of Bills brought before Parliament. The effectiveness of Parliamentary Committees is crucial to the effective functioning of Parliament. Reports submitted by the Committees allow for...
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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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IPC is history: In 1837, how Macaulay cracked the code

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Aug 14, 2023
Home Minister Amit Shah surprised the nation on August 11, the last day of the Monsoon Session by introducing three Bills in Lok Sabha to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system. The minister told the House that the colonial mindset of giving punishment, rather than justi...
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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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Lok Sabha suspends Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury: How Privileges Committee works

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, Aug 11, 2023
On August 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government defeated the opposition’s no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha. After that, Prahlad Joshi, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, stated that Congress party MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury repeatedly interrupted the PM and othe...
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No confidence, no trust: A modern tale of two alliances

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, Aug 03, 2023
The NDA has a comfortable majority in Parliament, and the outcome of the no-confidence motion is a forgone conclusion. The debates will set the tone for 2024 The Lok Sabha is expected to debate Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’s no-confidence motion against prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi's g...
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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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What the monsoon session can achieve

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, July 19, 2023
The upcoming session will likely be stormy. But beyond the rows, it will hold cues on Opposition unity, parliamentary strategy and the run-up to 2024 The monsoon session of Parliament that starts on July 20 will be stormy. The government and Opposition are both girding up for the upcoming general...
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Defections require a political response

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, July 04, 2023
The NCP churn is a test case for the Supreme Court’s guidelines laid down in the Shiv Sena order. It shows, once again, the weakness of the anti-defection law Internal conflicts within a political party always follow a pattern. After factional disagreements become public, each side tries to...
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A watershed moment for two democracies

Chakshu Roy, Hindustan Times, June 21, 2023
Modi joins an elite club of leaders who addressed the US Congress more than once. This moment is ripe for our Parliament to imbibe a few good practices Only five world leaders have addressed a joint session of the United States (US) Senate and House of Representatives more than once. Former Briti...
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As India gets a new Parliament, a look at the history of the first legislative office, from a room to an institution

Chakshu Roy, Indian Express, May 28, 2023
Roughly a century ago, when the foundation stone of the original Parliament House was laid, the building was an afterthought. In the new capital city of Delhi, the focus of finance and attention was the Governor-General’s (President’s) House. The Council House was built to accommodate...
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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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Two judgments and the principle of accountability

MR Madhavan, The Hindu, May 18, 2023
Two Constitution Benches of the Supreme Court of India delivered important judgments last week. The first case decided that the Delhi government headed by the Chief Minister — and not the Lieutenant Governor appointed by the central government — will control civil services working for th...
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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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