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As of 8 February 2025, NDA have government in 19 States and 2 Union Territories. INDIA bloc have government in 8 States and 1 union Territories. Other one party ZPM , which is not part of any alliance has government in Mizoram state.
' Indian People's Party ', BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. [43] BJP was born out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. [44] Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [45]
According to Jaffrelot, the rising to power of BJP led to the return of upper castes in urban politics with nearly 45% of the BJP Member of Parliament belonging to the upper-caste, a consequence of this over-representation was the disproportionate ticket distribution plan of the BJP. The return of the upper castes to politics also revived some ...
Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal explicitly articulated the primary objective of this Women's Reservation Bill as the empowerment of women. Furthermore, he urged his fellow parliamentarians to refrain from politicizing the issue at hand. Indian National Congress leader Sonia Gandhi asked for prompt execution with immediate ...
Both the lieutenant governors were sworn in by Justice Gita Mittal, the chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir (and Ladakh) High Court, on 31 October 2019, first at Leh and then at Srinagar. [50] President's rule was revoked following bifurcation and newly applied to the union territories through the lieutenant governors.
President's rule can be revoked at any time by the President and does not need Parliament's approval. Until the mid-1990s, President's rule was often imposed in states through the abuse of authority of Governors who were in collusion with the Union government. The Supreme Court of India in March 1994 established a precedent in S. R. Bommai v.
T he Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that states cannot remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot, overturning a Colorado court ruling that said he was ...
Many BJP-ruled states, such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Karnataka, have considered laws designed to prevent forced conversions from Hinduism to Islam through marriage. Hindutva advocates call this " love jihad ", and it is widely considered to be an Islamophobic conspiracy theory.