Yerran naidu biography of mahatma
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Naidu on hunger strike; demands relief to calamity-hit farmers
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu on Friday launched an indefinite hunger strike demanding that the state and the central governments immediately provide succour to hapless farmers and artisans who faced the brunt of nature's fury in the last one year.
The former Andhra Pradesh chief minister expressed serious displeasure over the relief announced by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and demanded higher compensation as the loss was enormous.
Naidu, the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, launched the indefinite hunger strike at the new MLA quarters at Adarsh Nagar close to the state Secretariat after paying homage to TDP founder-president N T Rama Rao at the NTR Ghat, Mahatma Gandhi's statue at the Assembly and B R Ambedkar at Tank Bund.
Rajya Sabha member Nandamuri Harikrishna, former Union Minister K Yerran Naidu, senior leaders Nagam Janardhana Reddy, T Devender Goud and over 10 MLAs sat on a relay hunger-strike today in solidarity with Naidu.
Addressing the gathering at his fast camp, the TDP chief said the misery of farmers was leaving him in tears.
"The farmers and artisans faced the nature’s fury at least five times in the last one year. The loss was colossal but the government failed to come to t
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A Genealogy of Civil Liberties in Independent India
How does the world’s longest written Constitution develop an organic relationship with its citizens? In this interpretative essay, Kalpana Kannabiran makes the case for the ‘Constitution-as-commons’, drawing attention to India’s dynamic history of being a deliberative democracy, where the demand for civil liberties and rights has underlined the untenability of constitutional interpretation being limited to courts alone.
As we mark the 75th year of Indian independence, a close look at the development of an idea of justice in India is apposite. What are the liberating energies fostered by an argumentative, insurgent Constitution and what are the sites these energies cascade to? Struggles for civil liberties have been central to our understanding of politics, resistance and deliberative democracy. The juxtapositions between legislative bodies, courts and citizen mobilisations at different points in the history of the Constitution offer valuable insights on the power of dialogue — ruptures and retrievals. This history, I argue, enables the birth of the idea of the Constitution-as-commons by pointing to the untenability of constitutional interpretation crafted within courts alone. I of
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