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Haryana’s Educational Qualifications Ordinance Becomes an Act (opens the original)
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Previously on this blog, we have discussed the Rajasthan legislature’s imposition of educational qualifications as a pre-requisite to contest local body elections, via an Ordinance, strategically passed last December, just before local body polls. The Supreme Court and Rajasthan High Court’s refusal to expeditiously deal with the issue meant that the elections went ahead, disenfranchising a large segment of the population. The case is still pending adjudication. The other state that has introduc
The Educational Disqualifications Case: A Round-Up (opens the original)
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Today, the Supreme Court finished hearing arguments and reserved judgment in constitutional challenge to the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, bringing to an end a protracted judicial process that began last year with the passage of a similar ordinance in Rajasthan. On this blog, we have been covering the developments since that time. Here is a curated list of blog posts on the subject, as we await judgment in this important civil rights case. For the reasons that I’ve provided in the essays above, I
Guest Post: Women and the Constituent Assembly – II: The Framing of the Non-Discrimination Clause (opens the original)
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The initial drafts of the equality and non-discrimination provisions were prepared by B.R.Ambedkar (B Shiva Rao Ed. “The framing of India’s Constitution- Select Documents’ Universal law publishing co. Pvt. Ltd Vol II (2004) PP 86-88) and K.M.Munshi (Vol II PP 74-75). Ambedkar’s draft referred to the ‘prohibition of disqualification inter alia on the ground of sex’ only once in respect of holding of public office or practicing of trade or calling (Vol II 84-88). The remainder of the draft provisi
The (New) Rajasthan Educational Qualifications Ordinance: Lessons from Pakistan (Guest Post) (opens the original)
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(Back in December, the Rajasthan government had introduced an ordinance imposing educational qualifications as pre-requisites for standing for elected office in local government, days before those elections. The ordinance was challenged before the Supreme Court and the Rajasthan High Court, who failed to decide the case in time for elections. The case is still pending. In the meantime, the Rajasthan government plans to extend the Ordinance to other elected posts in civic bodies. In this guest es
Guest Post – Article 16 and the Concept of a “Power plus Duty” – II (opens the original)
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(In Part II of this series, Karan Lahiri continues his argument about the interpretation of Article 16 of the Constitution) In the last post, I introduced the concept of “power coupled with duty”. In this part, I talk about a batch of writ petitions pending before the Supreme Court, emerging from the State of U.P. (the lead petition being W.P. © 273/2015 – Sewa Lal & Ors. v State of UP), where the issue of “power coupled with duty” is likely to be looked at once again. This second blog post give
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