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India News: Pawar condemned the recent attack on journalist Nikhil Wagle by alleged BJP workers and stated that power is being misused to silence those who raise ....
PM condoles death of former governor Rama Jois, says he was towering intellectual SECTIONS Last Updated: Feb 16, 2021, 02:25 PM IST Share Synopsis Justice (Retd.) M. Rama Jois was a towering intellectual and jurist. He was admired for his rich intellect and contributions towards making India s democratic fabric stronger. Saddened by his demise. My thoughts are with his family and admirers in this sad hour. Om Shanti, Modi tweeted. Agencies Jois, who had also served as the chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, was suffering from age related ailments, they added. Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condoled the death of former Bihar and Jharkhand governor M Rama Jois, describing him as a towering intellectual and jurist who was admired for his rich intellect and contributions towards making India s democratic fabric stronger. The former Rajya Sabha MP and legal luminary died here on Tuesday after prolonged illness, famil ....
THE 8TH PARLIAMENT: The Prophecy, The Twists By ALSWEL ANNAN JAN 27, 2021 In my previous article titled The 8th Parliament: A True Test of Ghana’s Democratic Fabric (take a quick read here – https://citinewsroom.com/2021/01/the-8th-parliament-a-true-test-of-ghanas-democratic-fabric-article/ ); although not an Elijah, Jeremiah nor Isaiah of Ghana politics, I laid emphasis on the fact that the political composition of the 8th Parliament will bring to bare a lot of novel practices especially with regards to the formation of both Standing and Select Committees of the House. This prophesy so to say has come to pass. In the first time in Ghana’s Political history, there have been a newly adopted formula for composition of Committees which give both the Majority and Minority groups equal powers in numbers. This new formula was contained in the report of the Committee of Selection presented to parliament which was subsequently approved in accordance with Article 10 ....
The 8th Parliament – True test of Ghana’s democracy By Alswel O. Annan JAN 18, 2021 Since 1992 when the 4th Republic was conceived and birthed, there have always being a clear Majority and Minority Caucus. More to the point, Speaker for all but one of the Parliamentary terms have always been nominated by and emerged from the majority caucus which coincidentally but not too surprisingly have always been the government in power or which won the Popular Presidential vote. A swift but careful walk through memory lane presents the following speakers of parliament with their respective government in power in the Fourth Republic. NDC from 1993 till 2001 had its member Rt.Hon. Daniel Francis Annan as speaker for both the 1st and 2nd Parliament; the NPP between 2001 and 2009 presented two speakers in Rt. Hon. Peter Ala Adjetey and Rt.Hon. Ebenezer Sekyi Hughes for the 3rd and 4th Parliament respectively; the NDC between 2009 to 2013 nominated Rt. Hon. Joyce Adeline-Ba ....