Democracy  

As a few self-proclaimed intellectuals rue the arrest and interrogation of accused Umar Khalid, a few former judges have robustly observed that he is not above law 
 

Former Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy has questioned the Congress’s move to merge 6 BSP MLAs in Rajasthan even as the grand old party holds a ‘Speak for Democracy’ protest

As the Congress held a ‘Save Democracy and Save Constitution’ campaign, the BJP has criticised it alleging that it has flouted the COVID-19 norms

A day that all of us must relive in order to understand how the Congress killed democracy and its values, by its sheer dictatorship. 
 

Every Indian hangs his head in shame over Emergency, which refers to the darkest days in Indian democracy as the then PM Indira Gandhi imposed it. We give you a lowdown on what happened on that particular day.

Karnataka Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed Khan’s move to accord a hero’s welcome to Padarayanapura accused doesn’t augur well for a democracy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a new direction to the country’s democracy, said BJP chief JP Nadda

 West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has revealed that Union home minister Amit Shah promised her that an elected government like  the one she leads can’t be dislodged 

Congress has suspended Aditi Singh, MLA from Rae Bareli Sadar Assembly segment for questioning Priyanka Gandhi over the charade relating to thousand buses

The Delhi riots are a blot on India’s democracy. RK Mattoo, editor of Spade a Spade draws a parallel between these riots and the way the Kashmiri Pandits were thrown out of their homeland thirty years ago. 

Union minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on February 22 said that dissent and consensus are part of democracy, but protestors cannot get their rights by blocking the road.

Anyone opposing the CAA should go to the Supreme Court and challenge it constitutionally and government and people protesting are bound to abide by the decision.  Holding people and nation to ransom without any rhyme or reason should be dealt firmly under the provisions of the law. 

This article was first published in the magazine Spade A Spade. 

 

Hello and welcome to this episode of DePress Room, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how people around the world are dissatisfied with democracy. Dissatisfaction with democracy within developed countries is at its highest level in almost 25 years, according to University of Cambridge researchers. Academics have analysed what they say is the biggest global dataset on attitudes towards democracy, based on four million people in 3,500 surveys.

"I welcome the decision of my Bodo friends for leaving violence and reposing faith in democracy and the Constitution," Prime Minister Modi stated, after the push for peace in the Northeast caused the NDFB cadres to lay down their arms.

In spite of his opposition to the views of the Kerala Assembly on the issue of CAA, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan read out a paragraph against the CAA in his speech at the Kerala Assembly. However, he did issue a caveat saying he doesn’t agree with the views of the Assembly.