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Rahul Gandhi doesn’t understand women because he is a bachelor: Gujarat BJP chief Jagdish Vishwakarma

April 19, 2026 3:01 pm

Jagdish Vishwakarma further alleges that by voting to defeat the constitutional amendment Bill, the Congress has stopped India’s daughters from becoming self-reliant.

Om Birla said that there have never been disagreements over party lines in Parliamentary committees, and that ideas are expressed in committees rising above party lines.

Bill to remove jailed minister: Om Birla says names sought from parties on House panel

August 30, 2025 6:27 pm

At least four Opposition parties – TMC, SP and Shiv Sena (UBT), part of the INDIA bloc, and the AAP have decided not to participate.

Express View: New Bills on ministers with criminal charges are bad faith, bad law

August 21, 2025 9:04 am

To argue that ‘the people’ will decide if their ministers should run the government from jail subverts people’s rights. The Bills deserve to travel no further

P Chidambaram writes: Defiant push to change Constitution

December 29, 2024 10:44 am

Commentators described the BJP-led government as a ‘minority’ government that will force Mr Modi to be more circumspect and restrained. I did not share that view. They thought that Mr Modi will be more deferent to Parliament, but that too was belied by the Winter session.

P Chidambaram writes: Big blows for the Constitution

December 22, 2024 11:43 am

One Nation One Election and other changes intended by the BJP are worse: they threaten to undermine democracy and federalism. However, I am convinced that the strong spine of the Constitution and its robust and progressive spirit will ultimately prevail

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In today's India, can the Constitution protect individual dignity?

December 18, 2024 1:14 pm

We have a politics that has created the sense of a permanent ascriptive majority and minority, with the latter demanding that the Constitution represent it as a social force. Can we survive this contradiction and keep some semblance of the Constitution?

Simultaneous polls Bill: Amendments in effect from date to be notified by President

December 14, 2024 5:29 am

According to the draft bill, Article 82 A, which is to be inserted, would be: “The President may by a public notification issued on the day of the first sitting of the House by the people after a general election, bring into force the provision of this article, that date of the notification shall be called the appointed date.”