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Indian President Election 2022
On July 18, India will elect a new president.4,800 MPs and MLAs will vote to choose India’s 15th president. The Presidential college,which consists of elected members of both Houses of parliament, chooses its president. Members of the legislatures of states, including the Union Territory of Pondicherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, are elected. Voting is not permitted for nominees. The value of each legislator’s vote is calculated using the state’s population divided by 1,000 and multiplied by the number of state legislators
Focus India:Parliamentary System of India
The President and two chambers of India’s Central Legislature are referred to as “Parliament.”
The House of the People (Loksabha) is the lower body, while the Council of States is the upper house (Rajya sabha)
Protests Against India’s New Citizenship Emerge...
Two months after a controversial citizenship law passed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party government sparked a wave of protests by students and women, the Indian capital city will hold polls to elect a new local government on Saturday. As the BJP tries to wrest the prestigious city government from a city-based party that rules Delhi, the election will indicate whether the party retains its popularity among young voters
Backlash to India’s New Citizenship Law...
In India, demands to scrap a controversial new citizenship law present the most serious challenge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced since his Hindu nationalist government came to power power six years ago. The legislation has fanned fears that it will marginalize the country’s 200 million Muslims and erode its secular constitution by introducing religion as a criterion for citizenship
Intolerance in India Concerns Rights Groups
With an uptick in hate crimes against Muslims, India’s second-largest religious group, many rights activists are alarmed that intolerance toward minority groups is on the rise in the Hindu-majority country
What Do Young Voters Expect In...
More than half of India’s 1.3 billion people are younger than 25. In the ongoing general elections, almost 15 million voters between 18 and 19 are expected to cast their ballots for the first time
India’s Millennials Want Jobs, Development
India, one of the world’s youngest countries, a staggering 85 million young voters have joined the electoral rolls in this year’s general election which wraps up on May 19. It is a fiercely fought contest between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition
Parliamentary System In India At a...
The Central Legislature of India is known as ‘Parliament consists of the President and two houses.The lower house is called the House of the People(Loksabha) and the upper house is called the Council of states (Rajya sabha)The President of India is an internal part of the Union parliament because he summons and progress the House of parliament