-TimesNowNews.com Times Now has accessed the demonetisation draft report which has upset the BJP, whose MPs want the report suppressed. And there are eight reasons why the BJP doesn’t want to face the report in Parliament. New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by Congress leader Veerappa Moily, has concluded in its draft report that demonetisation, announced by the Narendra Modi government in November 2016, had led to at...
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Demonetisation led to 1% drop in GDP, says parliamentary report; BJP bans it
-MirrorNowNews.com The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Tuesday stalled a parliamentary report which slammed demonetisation. The report mentioned that demonetisation led to a drop of one per cent in the country's GDP. New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs on Tuesday stalled the note ban report which slammed the incumbent government's decision of demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes with effect from November 8, 2016. The report mentioned...
More »The dwindling minority -Christophe Jaffrelot & Gilles Verniers
-The Indian Express Drop in Muslim representation in legislatures is related to the rise of the BJP. Muslim MPs currently occupy 19 seats of the Lok Sabha (or 3.5 per cent of its members), the lowest figure since 1952. Between 1980 and 2014, the representation of Muslim MPs in the lower house of India’s Parliament has diminished by nearly two-third even as the share of Muslims in the population rose during the...
More »Death by hunger is India's tragic reality -Shashi Shekhar
-Hindustan Times It is pertinent to realise that 34 out of 1,000 children born in the country die in the mother’s womb itself. Nine lakh children below the age of five die much before they can comprehend the meaning of independent India and approximately 19 crore people in the country are compelled to sleep on an empty stomach. The history of the nation won’t record the names of Shikha, Manasi or Parul...
More »How Lok Sabha members fared in the last four years -K Deepalakshmi Varun & B Krishnan
-The Hindu Many BJP MPs make it to the list of top 10 performers based on attendance, questions asked, and debates participated. The monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 18 and it marks the beginning of the fifth year of the 16th Lok Sabha. With barely a year to go for the general election, here is an analysis, based on the data available in the Lok Sabha and...
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