LEADERS INVITED FOR SWEARING CEREMONY

BHIMSTEC Leaders invited for Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s swearing ceremony to be held on Thursday 

.Apart from India, Bangladesh, Nepal , Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Myanmar,the  members of BIMSTEC,

are attending. It is the group of countries called the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and

 Economic Cooperation, BIMSTEC has been a proprity for the Prime Minister  Modi as the South Asian

 Association for Regional Cooperation  (SAARC) has made a little progress due to Pakistans negative apporach.     

           Narendra Modi had organised an informal Bimstec meet in Goa during Octobe 2016. Since 2017

 National Security advisors of Bimstec have been meeting regularly to combat transnational crimes and terror

 in the region . Bimstec Motor Vehicle Agreement is an ambitious plan towards connectivity in South and

 South East Asia.

          There are 14 sectors of regional economic and technical co operation among the member State 

the coastal of Bay of Bengal.The Sectors include Trade and Investments, Travel and Communication, Tourism

Health, Fisheries, Agriculture.

           V R KRISHNA IYAR
         

"At the bottom of all tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into a little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point."

          എം.എസ്സ്.ഗിൽ കേസ്സിൽ വിൻസ്റ്റൺ ചർച്ചിലിനേയും അദ്ദേഹം ഓർമിച്ചു

           
"The concept of democracy as visualised by the Constitution presupposes the representation of the people in Parliament and state legislatures by the method of election. And, before an election machinery can be brought into operation, there are three requisites which require to be attended to, namely, (1) there should be a set of laws and rules making provisions with respect to all matters relating to, or in connection with, elections, and it should be decided as to how these laws and rules are to be made; (2). there should be an executive charged with the duty of securing the due conduct of elections; and (3) there should be a judicial tribunal to deal with disputes arising out of or in connection with elections. Articles 327 and 328 deal with the first of these requisites, article 324 with the second and article 329 with the third requisite (see N. P. Ponnuswami v. Returning Officer, Nanmakkal Constituency & Ors. 1952 SCR 218, 229). Article 329 (b) envisages the challenge to an election by a petition to be presented to such authority as the Parliament may, by law, prescribe