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Parliament and state legislatures form the core of India's democracy. On behalf of citizens, they make laws, hold the governments accountable for their actions, and allocate public funds to various national priorities. Therefore, it is imperative that legislators take informed decisions, that citizens know how they are being represented, and that there are channels of participation between..
PRS Legislative Research
1M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
1M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
2M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
3M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
3M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
4M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
4M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
5M ago
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 ..read more
PRS Legislative Research
5M ago
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 ..read more