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‘The real issue is that the law of sedition contained in Section 124A of the IPC is unconstitutional’

Sedition — illogical equation of government with state

‘It must be made clear that under the Tenth Schedule, Mr. Thackeray’s party is not a faction; it is the original political party’

Delving into the verdict on the Shiv Sena issue

‘It falls to the Supreme Court to fix a reasonable timeframe for Governors to take a decision on a Bill passed by the Assembly in the larger interest of federalism in the country’

Pending Bills, the issue of gubernatorial inaction

‘In focus also is the President of India performing adjudicatory and declaratory functions’

Making sense of the disqualification of a Lok Sabha MP

‘The party which can legally issue the whip is the Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray’

The anti-defection law is facing convulsions

The Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla

House rules and the weapon of expunction

The first session of the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 2023

This is an ‘address’ of great constitutional importance

‘Repugnancy can arise only between the provisions of the University Acts and the UGC Act, and not the regulations of the UGC’

This unseating of vice chancellors is faulty

‘ It does not require any great research to understand that the language issue has the potential to emotionally divide people’

This Hindi – and Hindi alone – counsel is flawed

‘Not fixing any time line does not and cannot mean that the Governor can indefinitely sit on the Bill that has been passed by an Assembly’

Gubernatorial procrastination is unreasonable

Dr. Rajendra Prasad taking oath as the first President of the Republic of India on January 26, 1950. C. Rajagopalachari, the Governor General, is seen seated on the chair.

The President is not a mere rubber stamp

Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis address a press conference in Mumbai on June 30, 2022.

Do not weaken the anti-defection law

‘The position of a Governor in the constitutional setup in India needs to be clearly understood’

Bill assent, a delay and the Governor’s options

‘It is a measure of the thoughtlessness of people that educated Indians speak derisively of secularism’

Strengthen secularism, save the republic