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The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Bill, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of Law and Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad, on December 9, 2019. Lok Sabha passed this amendment unanimously on December 10 after debate and then the bill got Rajya Sabha nod on December 12.  The Constitution of India under Article 334 provides reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of Anglo Indian community in the state assemblies and in the lower house of Parliamnet - Lok Sabha. This reservation has been provided for the period of 70 years since the enactment of the Constitution and will expire on January 25, 2020. So this bill was brought to extend the reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in state assemblies and in the Lok Sabha up to January 2030. However this amendment does not expend 10 year time period for the representation of Anglo Indian community and state legislative assemblies and the Lok Sabh...

As per the data released by Ministry of Statistic and Program Implementation, t he Quick Estimates of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) with base 2011-12 for the month of October 2019 stands at 127.7 , which is  3.8 percent   lower  as compared to the level in the month of October 2018.  The cumulative growth for the period April-September 2019 over the corresponding period of the previous year stands at 0.5 percent . Manufacturing sector yet again showed negative growth ( -2.1 percent ). Automobile industry has shown  decline of more than 28 percent  in the manufacturing of  motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers. When divided by the use based classification, Capital goods registered steepest  decline of 22 percent  in October. Demand also has not picked up. Consumer durables has shown decline of 19 percent . The growth rates for the Mining, Manufacturing and Electricity sectors for the month of October 2019 stand at...

Jharkhand assembly election result is yet another set back for BJP after Maharashtra and Haryana. In Haryana, BJP some how managed to form the government with the support of Jannayak Janta Party. But in Maharashtra it failed to form the government despite being single largest party and in Jharkhand it even failed to become the single largest party. In 2014 assembly elections, BJP became the single largest party after winning 37 seats and formed government with the support of All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). However BJP and AJSU fought elections separately this time after AJSU demanded 18 seats and BJP denied. Last time Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress faught elections separately but this time they formed alliance and RJD was also accommodated in alliance. JMM contested on 42 seats followed by Congress on 32 and RJD on 7. JMM became single largest party after winning 30 seats. BJP contested on 79 seats and managed to win 25. Congress won 16 seats and RJD won 1 seat...

The 5 phase Jharkhand Assembly Elections concluded today. The counting process will take place on Monday, December 23 . The voting for the first phase took place on November 30 and went on from December 7(2nd Phase) to December 12 (3rd Phase) to December 16 (4th Phase) and 5th phase concluded today. Jharkhand has total 81 Assembly seats.    Phase No of Assembly Seats No of Candidates Total number of Polling Stations Total number of Voters 1 13 189 4892 37,83,050 2 20 260 6066 48,25,038 3 17 309 7016 56,18,267 4 15 221 6101 47,85,009 5 16 237 5389 40,05,287 Overall the voting process in all 5 phases completed peacefully. In this election the new experiment called ' Absentee Voter Status ' was taken by the Election Commission. Facility of Absentee Voter status was provided for the first time in the c...