Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar on January 11 questioned the legitimacy of the basic structure doctrine, an unwritten rule that Parliament cannot amend certain features of the Constitution. Dhankar ...

The constitution empowers the Parliament and the State Legislatures to make laws within their respective jurisdiction. Bills to amend the constitution can only be introduced in the Parliament, but ...

April 29 should be celebrated as ‘People’s Day’ every year. In my view, the date April 29, 1973 is right next to January 26, 1950, which was marked as the first Republic Day, in terms of significance ...

EVERY few years the question of the basic structure of the constitution of Pakistan and the limitations of parliament’s power become issues of great public interest. In 2010, it was the judicial ...

SOUTH Asia has been greatly remiss in not acknowledging its debt to a jurist who single-handedly inspired a revolution in constitutional law. He was Prof Dietrich Conrad, head of the law department at ...

On April 24, 1973, the Supreme Court of India declared that Parliament did not have the power to amend certain aspects of the Constitution, its “basic structure”. The Kesavananda Bharati judgement, as ...

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman on Monday spoke in defense of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution, stating that if it is ever overridden, it would be disastrous for the ...

New Delhi: Following Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar’s remark criticising the basic structure doctrine, the Chief Justice of India DY Chardachud hailed the doctrine and called it a North Star that ...