-The Hindustan Times The government has chosen the Ordinance route to put into force several legislative Bills over the past months. Many of these are expected to be tabled in Parliament in the upcoming budget session. HT explains four of them. What is an ordinance? As per Article 123 of the Constitution, when Parliament is not in session, the President has the power to promulgate an Ordinance - which has the same force...

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitely may have made conciliatory trips to Kolkata and Chennai to shore up support for the Ordinances to be tabled in Parliament in the budget session, but it has left the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), the farmers' wing of the Sangh Parivar, unimpressed. The outfit has decided to take its agitation against the proposed amendments (cleared as an ordinance by the Union Cabinet last...

-The Hindu Allow Parliament to function smoothly, President tells ruling party and Opposition New Delhi: In an apparent expression of displeasure over the spate of Ordinances recently issued by the Narendra Modi government, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday asked the ruling as well as opposition parties to find out a "workable" solution to ensure the smooth running of Parliament. "The ordinance route cannot be taken, should not be taken, for normal legislation," Mukherjee...

-The Hindu The government's refrain that it would resort to all procedures, including a joint sitting of Parliament, to legislate a spate of Ordinances into Acts of legislature, may come to nothing if the Rajya Sabha is stalled in the next session. For one, a pre-condition for a joint sitting is that a Bill, along with a statement of reasons for promulgating the ordinance, should have been first defeated in one...

-Frontline SHUBHANKAR DAM, Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University School of Law, is the author of Presidential Legislation in India: The Law and Practice of Ordinances (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which has received wide acclaim among scholars of constitutional law. Against the backdrop of his insightful critique on the necessity of Ordinances in a democracy, Professor Dam discusses in this interview the recent controversy triggered by the Bharatiya Janata...