COVER STORY
Briefing
Relevant constitutional provisions
Article 355: It shall be the duty of the Union to protect every State against external aggression and internal disturbance and to ensure that ...
Who's afraid of Article 356?
More than any particular State government, it is the BJP-led Government at the Centre that finds its survival to be at stake because of the ...
Coordination challenges
AS the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition Government completed its first hundred days in office, it became apparent that the mechanism ...
Life at the edge
The formation of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha spurs efforts to build a secular front that will be ready to take over should the Vajpayee ...
Life at the edge
The formation of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha spurs efforts to build a secular front that will be ready to take over should the Vajpayee ...
A threat in Chennai
There is no end in sight to the face-off between the BJP and the AIADMK over the dismissal of the Karunanidhi Government. EVER ...
Bracing for battle in Bihar
The Samata Party and the State unit of the BJP have stepped up their demand for the Rabri Devi Government's dismissal following the killings of ...
To Bengal and back
The team of officials despatched by the Centre to Calcutta returns empty-handed, and the Trinamul Congress-inspired bid to target the West ...
'Left parties are not afraid of Article 356'
Buddhadev Bhattacharya, who is in charge of the Home (police) portfolio in West Bengal's Left Front Ministry, took a tough stand when the ...
'Bommai verdict has checked misuse of Article 356'
The demands pressed by some of the Bharatiya Janata Party's coalition partners for using Article 356 and related constitutional provisions ...
'It must be retained, but its abuse prevented'
Justice P.B. Sawant, now the Chairman of the Press Council of India, was part of the apex court's majority opinion and wrote a judgment along ...
'Article 356 should be abolished'
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, former judge of the Supreme Court, has been one of India's most distinguished and original constitutional thinkers ...
Of President's Rule and trigger-happy politicians
Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate in the Supreme Court, has been involved in a number of cases with a bearing on the fabric of relations between ...
'Strengthen the institution of the Governor'
Fali S. Nariman is widely regarded as India's top lawyer. The eminent constitutional expert made it clear at the outset that he wished to ...
'Article 356 cannot continue in the present form'
Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), states that by its very nature Article 356 of the Constitution ...
'A threat to our democratic process'
Rajesh Pilot was one of the few Congress(I) leaders who questioned Governor Romesh Bhandari's recommendation to the President to dismiss the ...
'I don't find anything wrong in our allies' demand'
BJP general secretary M. Venkaiah Naidu says that this party "is not against using Article 356" but feels that it "has to be used only in ...
Loosening grip
The setback that the Congress(I) has suffered in the Rajya Sabha elections points to Sonia Gandhi's failure to consolidate the early gains that ...
Tainted elections
A DAY after the results of the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha were announced, Chief Election Commissioner M.S. Gill lamented the ...
The BJP's own goal
The Cover Story, ("The BJP's own goal", July 3), reminded me of Satan's words in Paradise Lost. Satan, the Prince of Darkness, said: ...
Coordination challenges
AS the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition Government completed its first hundred days in office, it became apparent that the mechanism ...
Life at the edge
The formation of the Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha spurs efforts to build a secular front that will be ready to take over should the Vajpayee ...
A threat in Chennai
There is no end in sight to the face-off between the BJP and the AIADMK over the dismissal of the Karunanidhi Government. EVER ...
Bracing for battle in Bihar
The Samata Party and the State unit of the BJP have stepped up their demand for the Rabri Devi Government's dismissal following the killings of ...
To Bengal and back
The team of officials despatched by the Centre to Calcutta returns empty-handed, and the Trinamul Congress-inspired bid to target the West ...
'Left parties are not afraid of Article 356'
Buddhadev Bhattacharya, who is in charge of the Home (police) portfolio in West Bengal's Left Front Ministry, took a tough stand when the ...
'Bommai verdict has checked misuse of Article 356'
The demands pressed by some of the Bharatiya Janata Party's coalition partners for using Article 356 and related constitutional provisions ...
'It must be retained, but its abuse prevented'
Justice P.B. Sawant, now the Chairman of the Press Council of India, was part of the apex court's majority opinion and wrote a judgment along ...
'Article 356 should be abolished'
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, former judge of the Supreme Court, has been one of India's most distinguished and original constitutional thinkers ...
Of President's Rule and trigger-happy politicians
Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate in the Supreme Court, has been involved in a number of cases with a bearing on the fabric of relations between ...
'Strengthen the institution of the Governor'
Fali S. Nariman is widely regarded as India's top lawyer. The eminent constitutional expert made it clear at the outset that he wished to ...
'Article 356 cannot continue in the present form'
Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), states that by its very nature Article 356 of the Constitution ...
'A threat to our democratic process'
Rajesh Pilot was one of the few Congress(I) leaders who questioned Governor Romesh Bhandari's recommendation to the President to dismiss the ...
'I don't find anything wrong in our allies' demand'
BJP general secretary M. Venkaiah Naidu says that this party "is not against using Article 356" but feels that it "has to be used only in ...
'The boot is on the other leg'
Union Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi speaks to Sukumar Muralidharan on the reconstitution of the Indian Council for ...
A continuum of sleaze
The Pathology of Corruption by S.S. Gill; HarperCollins Publishers India, New Delhi, 1998; price Rs. 295. S.S. GILL does not seek ...
Pokhran-II and its fallout
India has lost out heavily as a consequence of the BJP-led Government's misadventure; and in any case neither India nor Pakistan has, or can ...
From Hiroshima to Pokhran
A three-member Japanese delegation visited Pokhran as part of a 10-day tour of India and Pakistan aimed at raising public awareness about the ...
The Khetolai declaration
Today, June 18, 1998, a meeting was held at Khetolai village near the Pokhran field firing range, where the Indian Government conducted nuclear ...
'Nuclear deterrence, in general, is not a sound strategy'
Gensuikin (Congress Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs) is Japan's leading anti-nuclear organisation. Founded in the 1950s after the U.S. tested ...
Diplomatic fire-fighting
For more than a month, senior Indian diplomats have been making efforts to contain the fallout of Pokhran but they have not been quite ...
The BJP's projects
Its eyes set firmly on the temple project, the BJP plans to go to the electorate on the planks of the Bomb and Ayodhya; it is up to the ...
The "Ram temple" drama
S. P. UDAYAKUMAR AYODHYA had better be seen as a theatre where the mythical lore is translated into modern metaphors, and the ...
Chapnari's terror
The latest massacre in Doda points once again to a planned bid to transform Kashmir's insurgency into a Hindu-Muslim communal confrontation, a ...