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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In 2023 the Constitution was challenged as being colonial and outdated. Bibek Debroy’s opinion piece was product placement, a warning of things to come. The aim behind these suggestions is to facilitate Central “executive efficiency”, governance involving “law and order, and swift dispute resolution”.
November 26 is celebrated as Constitution Day, when rich tributes are paid to the makers of India’s constitution, especially its principal architect B.R. Ambedkar, whose 67th death anniversary is today, December 6, 2023.
Tarunabh Khaitan, a professor of Public Law, says that India’s democracy is in peril, and that the Union government under Narendra Modi is “killing the constitution with a thousand cuts”.
The architect of the Indian constitution had to wait for 75 years after independence for a statue to be erected in his honour. All this while, a taller statue of Manu – whose teachings are against the basic values of the constitution – was unveiled on the premises of the Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan high court way back in 1989.
On the tumultuous political and legal history of India’s Constituent Assembly.
The Indian constitution institutionalises the ideals of democracy. Left to itself, democracy can go completely haywire. It can be reduced to elections – as it has been in today’s India. Without a constitution, we will never know that there is more to democracy than just elections.
The noted constitution expert’s interview covers a range of topics, including the calls for a new constitution, simultaneous polls, questions raised on the Basic Structure of the constitution, the prevailing climate of intolerance, and the changing relationship between judiciary and executive.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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