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The conservative right are back in government in Greece following Sunday’s general election. But in great news for the anti-fascist movement everywhere, the neonazis of Golden Dawn are out of parliament, losing all the seats they first won seven years ago. The centre-right New Democracy party took just under 40 per cent of the vote against nearly 32 per cent for Syriza, once the party of the radical left.

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

31st July, 2019 is the deadline for the completion of the National Register of Citizens (‘NRC’) in Assam, after which, millions of people, mostly from the poorest and marginalised backgrounds, are expected to be stateless, if their names are excluded from the final NRC list. Most of them have been staying in Assam for three to four decades, but do not have the documents to prove their citizenship. The horror of the process is evident to all, who are invested in protecting the basic ethos of the constitution, but not to our executive, and more importantly, to our judiciary.

Why do the coalition governments in general do not succeed in India? It has been for various reasons both at the state and at the federal level. Historically, this has been proved not once or twice, but many times.

Every summer since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party has seen a campaign to bring him down. In 2016 the “chicken coup” saw a challenge to Corbyn’s leadership that took the heat off the Tories following David Cameron’s resignation.

LUCKNOW: Only the results of by-elections for 12 assembly seats will tell whether unilateral decision of BSP national President Mayawati to end gathbandhan with Samajwadi Party was right or not. By-polls are taking place as MLAs from different political parties made it to Lok Sabha. For the first time BSP is contesting by-polls and will have to perform better to impress the voters for assembly elections scheduled in 2022.

It may never be possible for official investigating agencies to calculate how much money has been illegally pocketed by Bengal Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders through their highly organised ‘cut money’ racket. It cannot be denied that TMC leaders have been engaged in financial corruption on a massive scale since 2011 can no longer be denied.

It was expected that with the elections just over, and several promises made by the Prime Minister, health will get a more suitable place in the 219-20 budget than ever before. But it was disappointing to note that in two and half hour budget speech not a word was mentioned on health by the finance minister. On many things (including health), she said that these are mentioned in the text and one can read it. This is belittling the importance of the issues.

The spokespersons of both the BJP and the Congress were probably right in their comments on the political instability in Karnataka. While the Congress alleged that the BJP was “buying” the ruling alliance’s MLAs to grab power in the state, the BJP asserted that it could not be blamed if the Janata Dal (S)-Congress government could not keep its own house in order.

If Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a choice he may not like to expand the current size of his council of ministers to keep the government truly slim and trim to deliver maximum governance. The present 58-member council of ministers, including the prime minister, is bigger than the one he had at the start of his previous term. In 2014, Modi was sworn in with an initial council of 46 ministers, including himself. Yet, before the end of the previous term, the NDA government had as many as 71 ministers, including the prime minister. Interestingly, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech, echoed the Prime Minister’s sentiment linking the size of the government with governance standard.