The GoI was prodded after 73 years to table a Bill when the March 2023 SC judgment constituted a three-member bipartisan selection committee comprising the PM, CJI and LOP to appoint the CEC and ECs. But the Bill’s selection panel comprising the PM, LOP and a Union minister allows the Executive to retain control over […]
Month: August 2023
In Varanasi, Occupants of Iconic Gandhian Institution Thrown Out, Land Taken Over
The fact that the land legally belonged to the Akhil Bharat Sarva Seva Sangh, founded by Vinoba Bhave in 1948, was just a minor irritant for the powers that be. Usurped is the appropriate word for what happened in Varanasi on July 22, 2023, when the Government of India, through the instrumentality of the Indian […]