Democratic Rights

"A Single Woman Fighting Alone": Jaya Bachchan On Mamata Banerjee

Assembly West Bengal | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Tuesday April 6, 2021

Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan, in Bengal to campaign on behalf of Mamata Banerjee, came out guns blazing at her first press conference, reminding voters that Ms Banerjee was "fighting to preserve the democratic right of all Bengalis"

"Won't Bow Down": On Wheelchair, Mamata Banerjee Holds Rally In Kolkata

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Sunday March 14, 2021

Leg in a cast and sitting on a wheelchair, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today declared that nothing will keep her from protecting the democratic rights of the people. The 66-year-old, whose leg was injured in Nandigram on Wednesday, made the point with a rally in the heart of Kolkata, rolling in her wheelchair along with hundreds of party ...

Punjab Police Promises Action Against Those Who Destroyed Mobile Towers

India News | Reported by Mohammed Ghazali, Edited by Nandini Gupta | Wednesday December 30, 2020

The Punjab Police has said it will take action against "those involved in violence under the garb of democratic right to protest", referring to damage of more than 1,500 Reliance Jio towers allegedly by those protesting for repeal of three farm laws.

Let Us Leave Politics Out Of Education: HRD Minister On Remarks Over CBSE's Revised Courses

Education | Edited by Maitree Baral | Thursday July 9, 2020

“Let us leave politics out of education and make our politics more educated,” Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has said today backing the government’s decision to drop chapters like Democratic Rights, Food Security in India, Federalism, Citizenship and Secularism from school syllabus.

Mamata Banerjee "Shocked" As CBSE Drops Chapters On Secularism, Democracy

India News | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Wednesday July 8, 2020

Mamata Banerjee has said she is "shocked" by the centre's decision to drop subjects like democratic rights, federalism and secularism from the Economics and Political Science syllabuses of Classes 9 to 12 in all CBSE-affiliated schools

Opinion: Destructive Stabs At Democracy In India - By Amartya Sen

Opinion | Amartya Sen | Thursday April 16, 2020

India's hard-fought democratic rights are at risk because of striking misuse of political power by the ruling party, writes the Nobel laureate

Opinion: Lockdown Being Misused To Persecute Government's Critics

Opinion | Brinda Karat | Monday April 13, 2020

The COVID-19 created situation and the fallout of the lockdown has many dimensions. A concern is what happens to civil liberties and democratic rights in such a period. This is not an academic question but one that arises because of certain developments in the capital of India.

"Utilise This Democracy, Do Not Misuse It": Ladakh MP On JNU Violence

India News | ANI | Thursday January 9, 2020

Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal condemned the violence which had broken out on the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on January 5 and said that democratic rights in the country should be utilised and not ''misused''.

Citizenship Law Has "Nothing To Do With India's Muslims": Shahi Imam

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday December 18, 2019

Appealing for restraint while exercising what he calls the democratic right to protest, the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid has stressed that the citizenship law at the core of massive protests across the country "has nothing to do with Muslims living in India". He also reminds that the NRC or National Register of Citizens, the other trigger for ...

Woman Meets Rahul Gandhi On Flight From Srinagar. Priyanka Gandhi Tweets

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday August 26, 2019

Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, whose brother Rahul Gandhi was turned away from Srinagar airport yesterday, ripped into the authorities today in a series of tweets. There is nothing more "political and anti-national" than denying Kashmiris their democratic rights, she wrote.

PM Modi Reminds People Of Emergency; Says Don't Take Democracy For Granted

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday June 30, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reminded people of the Emergency and urged them not to take democracy "for granted", saying in day-to-day life, it is difficult to savour the joy of democratic rights, unless they are snatched away.

Political Parties Have Democratic Right To Conduct Programmes: West Bengal Governor

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday February 3, 2019

West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi feels that everypolitical party has the "constitutional and democraticright"toconducttheirprogrammes, a remark that comes against the backdrop of the state government denying permissiontothe BJPtohold a ''rath yatra''.

You Should Feel Sad If You Fail To Vote: PM Modi

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday January 27, 2019

Mann Ki Baat: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections due this summer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said casting vote is a sacred duty and those who do not use the democratic right should feel the "pain" of not exercising their franchise.

Don't Intend To Restrict "Freedom Of Speech" In Universities: Prakash Javadekar

Education | Edited by Shihabudeen Kunju S | Saturday October 20, 2018

The response from the HRD Minister came after DU and JNU teachers have accused his ministry and the University Grants Commission (UGC) of meddling in their democratic rights through some circulars.

Delhi University Teachers Denounce UGC's ESMA Circular, Call It 'Attack On Democratic Rights'

Education | NDTV Education Team | Friday October 19, 2018

According to DUTA, the circular is exploring the 'possible alterations that may dissolve the University's institutional autonomy and suspend the democratic rights of its academic community'.