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  • Patna: Opposition to discuss Centre’s ordinance on June 23

    Patna: Opposition to discuss Centre’s ordinance on June 23

    New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday announced that all opposition parties will discuss the ordinance imposed by the Central government in an upcoming meeting.

    The meeting is scheduled to take place in Bihar’s Patna on June 23. “The primary agenda of the meeting will be the Centre’s ordinance on Delhi. The opposition seeks clarity from the Congress regarding their stance on this matter,” stated the AAP.

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal emphasised that the ordinance not only applies to Delhi but also has the potential to be enforced in any full-fledged state in the country.

    Kejriwal highlighted that the Central government now possesses the authority to introduce similar ordinances on any subject within the concurrent list. Therefore, it is crucial for all opposition parties to unite and deliberate on this issue to ensure the protection of states’ autonomy.

    “I hope that the Congress will clearly state its position, as the other political parties present in the meeting will inquire about it. The first topic to be discussed will be the Delhi ordinance. I will explain the risks of this ordinance to each and every party attending the meeting. I will bring the Constitution of India with me and demonstrate how this ordinance ridicules it,” said Kejriwal.

    He added, “Just because it has been implemented in Delhi, which is often considered a ‘half-state’, doesn’t mean it cannot be implemented in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, West Bengal, and other states. By promulgating such ordinances, the Centre can undermine all matters falling within the concurrent list of the Constitution of India.”

  • Kejriwal to meet Stalin, Soren for support against Centre’s ordinance

    Kejriwal to meet Stalin, Soren for support against Centre’s ordinance

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that he would be meeting his Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand counterparts to seek their support against the Centre’s ordinance on the control of services.

    Kejriwal shared this information in two tweets. He mentioned that he will meet Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on June 1 followed by Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren on June 2.

    The first tweet stated, “Will be meeting Tamil Nadu CM Thiru M K Stalin in Chennai tomorrow (1st June) to seek DMK’s support against the Centre’s unconstitutional and undemocratic ‘Anti-Delhi’ Ordinance.”

  • We shall support AAP’s fight against Centre in Parliament: NCP

    We shall support AAP’s fight against Centre in Parliament: NCP

    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann on Thursday met Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar who offered his “full support” to the Aam Aadmi Party in its fight to safeguard its powers against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government.

    “Democracy is under attack from the BJP. We must all unitedly safeguard it. Efforts are being made to deprive the rights of governments elected by the people and create hurdles for them. We shall fully support the AAP’s fight in parliament,” declared Pawar after his half-hour meeting with Kejriwal-Mann and other leaders.

  • SC verdict on same-sex marriage: Ordinance fear haunts Queer activists

    SC verdict on same-sex marriage: Ordinance fear haunts Queer activists

    KOLKATA: While expecting a favourable verdict from the Supreme Court on the issue of same-sex marriage, a fear of an ordinance by the Centre to negate the apex court order seems to haunting the Queer rights activists to a great extent. The apprehension was expressed by the participants at an interactive panel discussion on ‘Marriage Equality: Legalising Same-sex Marriage’, organised by the West Bengal chapter of All India Professional’s Congress (AIPC) on Sunday.

    According to them, the apprehension on this count arose after the recent ordinance by the Union government to negate the apex court’s order handing over the control of service of bureaucrats in the national capital to Delhi government.

    In that eventuality, activists feel, another prolonged battle will start from them involving Queer-friendly political parties to achieve the final goal of getting the right to certificate for marriage for same-sex couples.

    According to Kingshuk Banerjee, the state coordinator of the AIPC’s gender and diversity group in West Bengal, in the eventuality of on ordinance to negate a possible favourable verdict from the apex court, the fresh journey of struggle will be in developing a bigger movement, involving like-minded politicians, intellectuals, academicians, social rights groups and most importantly the common. “The people from the Queer community form a substantial chunk of voters in the country and we have to make the government realize that,” he said.

    Same sex-couple, Suchandra Das and Shree Mukherjee, who participated in the panel discussion, said that during the course of hearing on the matter at the Supreme Court, while the Queer people received support from the bigger civil society an attempt to build up a counter-narrative has also started describing a the same-sex marriage as an “urban- elitist” affair.

    “But the reality is while the urban-elitist same-sex couple can continue living together without the certificate of marriage by virtue of financial backup, the same is not possible for the urban poor. Without a proper marriage certificate, one cannot really make his or her partner nominees for provident fund, bank accounts, insurance schemes and even making a joint loan application,” said Mukherjee, a digital marketing professional.

    Another panellist Pawan Dhal, a pioneer of the LGBTQ rights movement in the city and the founding trustee of Varta Trust, which runs a pan-India support service provider to the people from the Queer community, whether anyone will exercise the right to have the certificate of marriage or not should be left to that individual. “But the right to have that certificate should prevail always,” he said.

    Panelist and counsel of the Calcutta High Court, Sreemoyee Mukherjee deliberated on the requirement of bringing about parallel amendments in certain other acts like adoption, custodian and succession.

    -IANS