Category: Politics & Government

Article 39A of the Constitution provides for free legal aid to the poor and weaker sections of society. The Legal services Authorities Acts 1987 (as amended by the Act of 1994) which came into force on 9 November 1995, aims at establishing a nation-wide network for providing free and comprehensive legal services to the weaker sections.National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has been set up for implementing and monitoring legal aid programmes in the Country. ADVERTISEMENTS: The Supreme Court Legal Services Committee is being established to provide free legal aid to the eligible persons in legal matters coming before the High Courts.The Legal Services Authorities Act also provides for constitution of the State Legal Services Committees, High Court Legal Services Committees, district legal Services Committees and Taluk Legal Services Committees. Image…

Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader in the real sense. He did not live for self; but spent his whole life for the good of his country and its people. He was a man of firm determination and strong will-power. Undeterred by any opposition or consequences, he pursued his mission single-handedly and was even followed by lakhs and lakhs of people afterwards.Affectionately called ‘Bapu’ by most of his countrymen, Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat. His full name was Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi. During his school days, he was greatly influenced by the characters of King Harish Chandra and Shravan Bhakta.While his first model taught him to be truthful in life, the second ideal imparted him the lesson of being obedient to one’s parents.…

First session of congress:The first session of the Congress was to meet at Poona but owing to an outbreak of cholera the venue was shifted to Bombay and the session began on the 28th December 1885, in Gokaldas Tejpal Sanskrit College, with W. C. Banerjee, the doyen of the Calcutta Bar as the first President.It was attended by 100 men of whom 72 were non-officials and were recognized as members. Delegates came from different parts of the country and most important among them were Dadabhai Naoroji, Ranade, Pherozeshah Mehta, K.T. Telang, Dinshaw Wacha etc. The meeting was truly a national gathering consisting of leading men from all parts of India. Image Source: upload.wikimedia.org ADVERTISEMENTS: Aims and Objectives :The initial aims and objectives of the congress, were1. To flourish solidarity and…

Politics is an essential part of every one’s life directly or indirectly. Poliitics must effect the life of everyone. In dictatorship there must be a dictator who rule over the country by his own wish and will. But in democracy the role of politics is very important. India is now the biggest democracy of the world in which public elect their representatives in the Municipal Corporation, State Legislative Assembly and Parliament of India and then those elected representatives rule the country on behalf of the public of India. ADVERTISEMENTS: When any person elect any leader it is expected from him that he must serve people and put the problems of the public before the Government and then solve those problems. But this is not done and the expectations of the…

The one man who is known as “The Father of Indian Unrest” is “Lokmanya” Bal Gandhar Tilak. These two titles of Tilak have the different meanings. According to Britishers, he was the father of Indian unrest because he was the man who stood the Indian people for the first time against British Government and from that time the rest of British Government in India was gone and never came back.Tilak was the man who awaken the Indians about their rights and worst condition from where they had to live because of the British Raj. Tilak was strict against the rule of any other country or person over India.He declared, Swaraj (self rule) is my birth right and 1 must take it” His slogan was on the mouth of every Indian…

The difference between the Moderates and the Extremists within the Indian National Congress became wider after the partition of Bengal in 1905.The growing differences ultimately led to a split in the Congress at its Surat Session in 1907. ADVERTISEMENTS: The circumstances which widened the differences between the Moderates and the Extremists and ultimately were to result in the split in the nationalist ranks were based on the difference among the two groups that arose due to difference in the policies, programmes, aims and objectives.Moreover the fast growing popularity of Extremists, especially after partition of Bengal, alarmed the Moderate leadership within the Congress. Image Source: upload.wikimedia.orgThe situation further deteriorated due to the clash of personalities between the leaders of the two rival groups, especially between Tilak and Gokhale and Pherozeshah Mehta.The…

Mahatma Gandhi decided to walk through dozens of villages, pausing regularly to hold meetings, preparing the audience for the civil disobedience. On 12th March 1930, at 6.30 a.m.Gandhiji along with 78 selected followers/Styagrahis began his 241-mile (386 km) march from Sabarmati/Satyagraha Ashram, Ahmedabad to Dandi. This distance was to be covered in 24 days.Gandhiji (61 years) was the eldest and the leader of the group. Kasturba applied the benedictory tilak to Gandhiji’s forehead and garlanded him with khadi and handed him the walking stick. Tilak, khadi and stick sybolised devotion, simplicity and strength respectively. Image Source: 185.26.182.219/Rqae5eb53b-c103-49e4-a363-9cb05f81161d ADVERTISEMENTS: Gandhiji’s method of March was a huge success and people participate in his public meetings in large number.Vallabbhai Patel moved in advance to all the important places located on the designated route…

In the backdrop of the failure of Cripps Mission, imminent Japanese threat, the British attitude towards Indians who were left behind in Burma and the prevailing anger and hostility to an alien and meaningless war, Quit India Resolution was passed on 8 August 1942 by AICC at Gowalia Tank, Bombay. Gandhi told the British to quit and ‘leave India in God’s hand’. His message was ‘Do or Die’.On 9th August, however, all the Congress leaders were put behind the bars and the Congress was declared an illegal body.The agitated mass devoid of leadership resort to violent riots, assaults and sporadic disorder in most parts of the country. The Government adopted extreme repression, the brutality of which had no parallel in the Indian National Movement. Image Source: upload.wikimedia.org ADVERTISEMENTS: It was…

1. The British Hand:British masters who preferred to use the policy of divide and rule as per their need and convenience sowed the seed of Communalism in India.Many communal parties like Muslim League had patronage of the government for a considerable period of time. ADVERTISEMENTS: The British used the League to counterpoise the rising nationalism and keep the emerging Muslim intelligentsia from joining the Nationalist Movement.The British also encouraged the League to approach the Muslim masses and assume their leadership. The idea of Pakistan was not new to the bureaucracy. Image Source: britishcouncil.inAfter 1940, when the Muslim League had declared Pakistan as its goal, it received direct and indirect encouragement from the British Government. ADVERTISEMENTS: In their public utterances officials had harped on the differences, which divided Hindu and Muslim.…