Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla jointly launched 'Sansad TV' today.
International Day of Democracy owes its existence to Universal Declaration on Democracy, which was adopted on Sep 15, 1997 by Inter-Parliamentary Union, which is an international organisation of national parliaments.
In a message on Twitter, Johnson said that while the terror threat may not have gone away, people have refused to live in “permanent fear".
Expressing his anguish over the uproar in the Parliament during the recently concluded Monsoon session, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on September 1 said that the members of the Houses must maintain the dignity while sharing their views.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla visited Srinagar on August 29. Speaking to ANI, Speaker Om Birla said that democracy in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh strengthened due to public participation. "In JandK and Ladakh, democratic processes have been restored. People participated heavily in the Panchayat, Block Development Council (BDC) and District Development Council (DDC) polls. These polls have strengthened the democracy," said Speaker Om Birla.
Democracy needs the power of truth to survive, and as such one can consider "speaking truth to power" as a right as well as the duty of every citizen in a democracy, Supreme Court judge Justice D Y Chandrachud said on Saturday.
Union Minister of State (MoS) for Education Dr Subhas Sarkar on August 25 said that there is no democracy in West Bengal after he visited the NRS hospital to meet the teachers who tried to commit suicide.
Those who believe in democracy and secularism must come together and draw up a "time-bound action program", NCP supremo Sharad Pawar said after taking part in a virtual meeting of opposition leaders convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday.
The Calcutta High Court on August 19 ordered a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incidents of post-poll violence in West Bengal. Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur welcomed the decision and said that there is no place for violence in democracy.
On this day, Aug 15, 1947, India achieved its long journey toward independence, guided by Mahatma Gandhi's message of truth and non-violence, Biden said in his message to India on the occasion of India's 75th Independence Day.
On August 11, a lady marshal was allegedly manhandled in Rajya Sabha. In a video footage that has since surfaced, some Congress MPs can be seen pushing her. Who is to blame for the ruckus in Parliament? Watch Kurukshetra with Saurav Sharma.
After Twitter suspended 23 handles including those of seven Congress leaders, Rahul Gandhi slammed the microblogging giant in a video message, calling it an attack on democracy.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra on Aug 12 said, "It's unfortunate how Congress and other Opposition parties are protesting on road. Democracy has been shamed. I would say that not just VP Venkaiah Naidu cried but democracy also cried. Opposition ensured washout of the whole session, and this is height of anarchy".
The Opposition can consider this as their ‘victory’, but it was a big ‘defeat’ for our hoary democratic traditions. The Opposition committed sacrilege inside the temple of democracy.
Terming her stay as "successful", Banerjee's first trip to the national capital after her resounding victory in the West Bengal assembly polls was akin to testing the waters before she waded deeper into national politics.
At the end of her visit to the national capital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that everyone must work together to save democracy in the country, besides stating that she would be visiting Delhi every two months.
On Friday, Gandhi began her 2-day visit with a silent protest before a Mahatma Gandhi statue against the BJP government in the state.
On July 9, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had alleged that the BJP workers misbehaved with his party candidate Ritu Singh and her proposer Anita Yadav. He also claimed that the saffron party workers pulled the sarees of Ritu and Anita.
Biden blasted efforts from Trump and others to sow doubt about the 2020 election months after it concluded, which have spurred action from Grand Old Party (Republican Party)-led state legislatures to push new elections laws that would limit absentee voting and make it more difficult for certain groups to vote.
Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Twitter should not "preach us on democracy" as he said that India has the proud distinction of being the world's largest and the most vibrant democracy.
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