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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.  

On this day, the Constitution of India came into force in 1950. We all know about the man who led the drafting committee of this holy book of law – Dr. BR Ambedkar. But, how many of you know about the 2 civil servants working in the Constituent Assembly Secretariat, during that time, without whom the Indian democratic project would have probably never got off the ground. Let’s find out more about the two men who built India’s democracy, but you’ve probably never heard of them, in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

One of the biggest tasks post India’s independence was setting up a functional system that would enable common citizens to elect leaders for a true ‘Lok Sabha’. During that time, one person who was instrumental in setting up our country’s electoral system as it is today was Sukumar Sen. Let’s find about more about this civil servant and how the electoral system was setup in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

President of India Ram Nath Kovind will be the Chief Guest at the 10th National Voters' Day on 25th January 2020 being organized by Election Commission of India at Manekshaw Centre, Delhi Cantt. Union Minister for Law and Justice, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad shall also grace the national function. This year marks an important milestone in the history of Indian democracy as the Election Commission of India (ECI) completes 70 years of its journey.

In the aftermath of the violence and subsequent police firing, several ‘liberals’ spoke out stating that democracy is under threat. However, reports reveal that several radical groups had planned these protests in the name of anti CAA-NRC and wanted to make it about the Indian Muslim.

The fifth and final phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections began on December 20. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to vote in record numbers and join the festival of democracy

The fourth phase of Assembly elections in Jharkhand began on Monday in a total of 15 Assembly constituencies, including from the districts of Deoghar, Giridih, Bokaro and Dhanbad. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged voters to be a part of the festival of democracy.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan has India is going from “Make in India to Rape in India”. His statement only makes us wonder if Parliamentary democracy has died. 

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar is a ‘worried man’ as he feels democracy has broken in West Bengal. 

The contours of the strategic partnership between India and the United States are founded on shared democratic political architecture – India being the largest democracy while the US the oldest one. Hello and welcome to this episode of The Handshake, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about the potential of the India-US strategic partnership.

Taking to Twitter, the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel said that India is the largest democracy in the world and that the landmark Constitution combines East and West, reflecting India's unique history and culture

Minutes after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that democracy had been murdered in Maharashtra, BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad broke his silence over the issue and said that it was the Congress that was murdering democracy