‘Gift wrapped in barbed wire’: Tharoor slams Centre for linking women’s quota with delimitation bill | India News – The Times of India

‘Gift wrapped in barbed wire’: Tharoor slams Centre for linking women’s quota with delimitation bill | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday termed the proposed delimitation exercise “political demonetisation” and criticised the Centre for linking implementation of women’s reservation to the expansion of Parliament and constituency redrawing based on the Census.Participating in a Lok Sabha debate on three bills related to amendments in the women’s reservation law and…

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‘Secularism is endangered’: Mamata Banerjee on Constitution Day – here’s what opposition said | India News – The Times of India

‘Secularism is endangered’: Mamata Banerjee on Constitution Day – here’s what opposition said | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid her tribute to Constitution Day, with a sharp warning stating that at a time when democracy is at stake, “secularism is in endangered situation, and federalism is being bulldozed,” we must protect the valuable guidance that the Samvidhan provides.She urged citizens to safeguard the principles…

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