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Poll Preparations
Bihar strikes first to sew Team India seat pact
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) is began speaking about seat-sharing. Sources stated a broad understanding has emerged among the many opposition alliance’s major constituents in Bihar over the seats they’d contest. However, there’s some friction over three or 4 Lok Sabha seats out of whole 40. The two major constituents of INDIA within the state – chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Lalu Yadav’s RJD — will contest 15 seats every, leaving the remaining 10 seats for the Congress and the Left events. The Congress needs to contest eight seats. It has laid declare to Navada, Madhubani, Katihar, Aurangabad, Kishanganj, Sasaram, Supaul and Begusarai.
The CPI(ML), which has emerged as the biggest Left celebration in Bihar, needs two seats — Arrah and Siwan. But sources stated it could get just one. One will go to CPI. The CPI needs Begusarai, however Congress has claimed the seat for Kanhaiya Kumar, president of Youth Congress and beforehand president of the JNU college students’ union. The JD(U) has 16 sitting MPs from Bihar, and the RJD has none. The RJD, nevertheless, has extra MLAs than the JD(U). The two events have, subsequently, determined to contest an equal variety of seats.
Election 2024
BJP could put UCC on the back-burner, play up IPC, CrPC
Union residence minister Amit Shah met BJP members of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs final Thursday and requested them to completely research the three new payments he introduced to switch the IPC, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act. The BJP MPs have been instructed to extensively publicise the provisions of the brand new payments, moreover expediting the finalisation of the committee report for passage within the winter session of Parliament. The payments have been tabled in Parliament within the monsoon session and referred to the Standing Committee. Sources stated the BJP MPs have been knowledgeable that the stringent provisions within the new payments would rein within the ‘tukde tukde gang’ and the ‘love jehadis’ and provides wide-ranging powers to the police, together with prolonged custody of arrested individuals, seizure of digital and digital units and proof, attachment of perceived proceeds of crime, and many others to cope with ‘anti-national’ components. In this context, their consideration was drawn to the brand new provision to criminalise the sexual exploitation of girls by hiding identification and broadening the definition of sedition.
The IPC Section 124A, coping with sedition, stands repealed. Instead, a brand new Section 150 is being launched. Section 150 reads as follows: “Whoever, purposely or knowingly, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or by electronic communication, or by use of financial means, or otherwise, excites or attempts to excite, secession or armed rebellion or subversive activities, or encourages feelings of separatist activities or endangers sovereignty or unity and integrity of India; or indulges in or commits any such act shall be punished with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine.” The use of open-ended phrases corresponding to “excites”, “attempts to excite”, (encourages) “feelings” (of separatist actions) and “subversive activities” provides the brand new legislation extra enamel than the earlier one. Sources stated the BJP management is considering placing the Uniform Civil Code on the backburner and utilizing the payments to convey the problem of nationwide safety to the centre stage.
Poll Preparations
Bihar strikes first to sew Team India seat pact
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) is began speaking about seat-sharing. Sources stated a broad understanding has emerged among the many opposition alliance’s major constituents in Bihar over the seats they’d contest. However, there’s some friction over three or 4 Lok Sabha seats out of whole 40. The two major constituents of INDIA within the state – chief minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Lalu Yadav’s RJD — will contest 15 seats every, leaving the remaining 10 seats for the Congress and the Left events. The Congress needs to contest eight seats. It has laid declare to Navada, Madhubani, Katihar, Aurangabad, Kishanganj, Sasaram, Supaul and Begusarai.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The CPI(ML), which has emerged as the biggest Left celebration in Bihar, needs two seats — Arrah and Siwan. But sources stated it could get just one. One will go to CPI. The CPI needs Begusarai, however Congress has claimed the seat for Kanhaiya Kumar, president of Youth Congress and beforehand president of the JNU college students’ union. The JD(U) has 16 sitting MPs from Bihar, and the RJD has none. The RJD, nevertheless, has extra MLAs than the JD(U). The two events have, subsequently, determined to contest an equal variety of seats.
Election 2024
BJP could put UCC on the back-burner, play up IPC, CrPC
Union residence minister Amit Shah met BJP members of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs final Thursday and requested them to completely research the three new payments he introduced to switch the IPC, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act. The BJP MPs have been instructed to extensively publicise the provisions of the brand new payments, moreover expediting the finalisation of the committee report for passage within the winter session of Parliament. The payments have been tabled in Parliament within the monsoon session and referred to the Standing Committee. Sources stated the BJP MPs have been knowledgeable that the stringent provisions within the new payments would rein within the ‘tukde tukde gang’ and the ‘love jehadis’ and provides wide-ranging powers to the police, together with prolonged custody of arrested individuals, seizure of digital and digital units and proof, attachment of perceived proceeds of crime, and many others to cope with ‘anti-national’ components. In this context, their consideration was drawn to the brand new provision to criminalise the sexual exploitation of girls by hiding identification and broadening the definition of sedition.
The IPC Section 124A, coping with sedition, stands repealed. Instead, a brand new Section 150 is being launched. Section 150 reads as follows: “Whoever, purposely or knowingly, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or by electronic communication, or by use of financial means, or otherwise, excites or attempts to excite, secession or armed rebellion or subversive activities, or encourages feelings of separatist activities or endangers sovereignty or unity and integrity of India; or indulges in or commits any such act shall be punished with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine.” The use of open-ended phrases corresponding to “excites”, “attempts to excite”, (encourages) “feelings” (of separatist actions) and “subversive activities” provides the brand new legislation extra enamel than the earlier one. Sources stated the BJP management is considering placing the Uniform Civil Code on the backburner and utilizing the payments to convey the problem of nationwide safety to the centre stage.
