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The day was selected on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Gandhi wanted Gram Swaraj through Panchayati Raj. [5] [6] The system was modified in 1992 with the 73rd constitutional amendment. [7] [8] [9] In India, the Panchayati Raj now functions as a system of governance in which gram panchayats are the basic units of local administration.
Gavin Newsom, the 40th and current governor of California. The governor of California is the head of government of California, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.
The Constitutional (73rd Amendment) Act, passed in 1992 by the Narasimha Rao government, came into force on April 24, 1993. It was meant to provide constitutional sanction to establish "democracy at the grassroots level as it is at the state level or national level". Its main features are as follows: [13]
Today, any voter may vote absentee. In 2004, State Sen. John Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara) proposed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship that would give 14-year-olds a quarter vote, 16-year-olds a half vote, and 17-year-olds a full vote. [14] [15] In 2012, state lawmakers passed a bill to adopt ...
AB 2839 was one of three laws Newsom signed last month concerning political deepfakes.
The governor issued a special proclamation Wednesday ordering a special primary Feb. 25, 2025 election to elect successors for Senate District 36 and Assembly District 32. The general election ...
Democrats have relied heavily on California’s 54 electoral votes in presidential elections for decades. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won in California was in 1988, when ...
Schwarzenegger actively supported the reelection campaign of President George W. Bush in the 2004 United States presidential election.Schwarzenegger gave a speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention on August 31 at Madison Square Garden, closing his speech by remarking, "George W. Bush has worked hard to protect and preserve the American dream for all of us.