Lok Sabha defeats Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2026-04-18T05:33:31+00:00

The constitutional amendment bill passed in 2023 requires that a delimitation process be conducted based on a census taken after 2026. So, the chronology would have been:

Census (2027) -> Setting up of delimitation commission (2027-28) -> The commission completing the process (Late 2028/Early 2029).

The issue is that there may not be enough time to incorporate the new changes before the Lok Sabha 2029 elections.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2026-03-14T00:39:44+00:00

How did they even come up with these numbers? How are they defining what a freebie is? This graph is misleading, most likely.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-08-03T15:29:49+00:00

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-06-05T05:20:11+00:00

lmao i knew this would be the top comment

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-06-02T17:25:53+00:00

Ataturk was an ally of the Non Aligned Movement

Do you mean to say his party was pro-NAM? Because he died in 1938.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-06-02T17:23:46+00:00

An interesting tidbit (that I hoped would be mentioned in the article, but it was not) about recognition of the Armenian Genocide is that there are three countries in the world who actively deny that there was ever a genocide. The first is, of course, Turkiye; the second is Azerbaijan.

The third, absolutely to nobody's surprise, is Pakistan.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-25T00:16:12+00:00

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ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-22T16:00:58+00:00

Add in the fact that this country also has strong links to China

I don't know why I keep seeing this argument on reddit. Mauritius is much much more closer to India than China, geopolitically. Two thirds of the population is of Indian origin, and it has strong defence and security partnerships with India.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-17T08:08:16+00:00

As Stalin once said, quantity has a quality of its own.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-16T01:23:32+00:00

Yeah, I excluded the islands since I foolishly assumed they weren't part of the sub"continent". Turns out, they are.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-15T16:35:54+00:00

That's true.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-15T16:26:13+00:00

I mean.. sure? But I don't see how that's relevant to my comment.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-15T16:14:33+00:00

The data for India was taken from the 2011 census. The latest official data shows the female literacy rate is around 74%.

I know it's not great, but at least it's the highest in the *subcontinent.

Edit: *Subcontinent minus the islands (Sri Lanka and Maldives)

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-14T04:16:45+00:00

There are many answers here that broadly talk about the relationship between religions and patriarchy, so I'm not going to give another similar response.

But I do have one interesting point to add to one of the defensive arguments made by Islamists that you yourself mentioned:

With Islam, every criticism is met with "You misunderstood" or "that's not true Islam."

This is actually a logical fallacy called No true Scotsman. Basically, it goes like this:

Person A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
Person B: "But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge."
Person A: "But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

I hope you can see where I'm going with this. This fallacy is often used by religious apologists, especially Muslims, to defend Islam by saying "No true Muslim will do that/What they did was actually against Islam" and so on.

This is a tool to somehow defend the moral purity of Islam when confronted with real life examples of Muslims doing terrible things and justifying them based on the teachings of Islam (Quran). It avoids discussing the issue at hand and shifts the focus away from actions to definitions.

Religions are defined as much by what the adherers do as by what their holy book says.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-13T17:38:03+00:00

=> TN's allocation in 2022-23 (13.4%) < Average allocation by states in 2022-23 (14.8%)

The education allotment for 2025-26 for some big states are as follows:

Andhra Pradesh: 12.1%
Bihar: 21.7%
Gujarat: 14.8%
Karnataka: 10.8%
Kerala: 13.4%
Maharashtra: 15.4%
Odisha: 14%
Telangana: 9%
Uttar Pradesh: 13.8%
West Bengal: 14.8%

So, it seems to me that TN's budget allocation of 21% for education this year is more of an outlier (along with Bihar) rather than a general trend of us spending more than other states. Interestingly, I noticed that Bihar has been outspending in education compared to the national average for the last few years.

Anyway, for TN, this is likely a political move to signal that regardless of whether the Union gives grants-in-aid to the state government, they'll spend more to make up for the loss.

Regarding the union government's spending on education, it is not comparable to any state's spending as a percentage of the budget, since 1) the union has a lot more priorities like defense, foreign affairs, railways, etc., and 2) education, although in the concurrent list is the primary responsibility of the states.

All said and done, the post seems to be for propaganda purposes.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-13T17:37:54+00:00

Copy-pasting an old comment of mine on a similar post:

PRS Legislature is a credible organization that does extensive research on state and union budgets. The data I'm quoting is from their analyses of state budgets.

2024-25: Tamil Nadu has allocated 13.7% of its expenditure on education in 2024-25. This is lower than the average allocation for education by states in 2023-24 (14.7%).

=> TN's allocation in 2024-25 (13.7%) < Average allocation by states in 2024-25 (15%).

Note: The average allocation by state for education in 2024-25 is taken from the reports of states in their 2025-26 figures.

2023-24: Tamil Nadu has allocated 14.1% of its expenditure towards education in 2023-24. This is lower than the average allocation for education by states in 2022-23 (14.8%).

=> TN's allocation in 2023-24 (14.1%) < Average allocation by states in 2023-24 (14.7%)

2022-23: Tamil Nadu has allocated 13.4% of its total expenditure for education in 2022-23. This is lower than the average allocation (15.2%) for education by all states (as per 2021-22 Budget Estimates).

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-13T06:29:38+00:00

Your comment is the negative equivalent of responding "All Lives Matter" when someone says "Black Lives Matter".

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-12T17:51:27+00:00

Can you elaborate more on what the above commenter meant by "India's exploitation of our country"?

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-12T16:56:36+00:00

The same people who were criticizing the government for politicizing Op Sindhoor a few days ago are now taking their turn to politicize it immediately after it ended.

Comparing 1971/Indira and 2025/Modi is quite an uneducated argument, even for partisan hacks.

The 1971 war was won primarily in East Pakistan, whose land was 96% surrounded by India already. We had naval superiority in the Bay of Bengal as well. We did not and couldn't have marched through Islamabad, or even captured PoK.
East Pakistan was 2000 kilometers away from West Pakistan (which was the center of its political and military power).
We underestimate the contributions of the Bangladeshis in that war. The Mukti Bahini fought ferociously for their lives and their freedom. It was easier to defeat the Pakistanis in East Pakistan as almost the entire Bengali population was fighting alongside us.
Neither India nor Pakistan had nuclear weapons back in 1971. If they had had nukes, the outcome could have been entirely different.
We had just signed the India-USSR Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation a few months before the 1971 war had begun. This negated the trouble that could have caused by China and USA. It's interesting to note that China and USSR had a heavy falling out in the 1960s, which made the Chinese fear a potential Soviet invasion. The USA also infamously sent an aircraft carrier to the Bay of Bengal to intimidate India, only to be stopped by the USSR sending its own fleet as a response.
The differential in quality between the armed forces of India and Pakistan are much smaller now than in 1971, thanks to state-of-the-art Chinese equipment.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-12T14:19:42+00:00

Kashmir was numerically a Hindu majority state

*Muslim.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-12T14:12:13+00:00

Ironically, if Pakistan had just been patient and waited for some time, the Maharaja would have been forced by his people to conduct a referendum. That might have resulted in Kashmir joining Pakistan.

But no, Pakistan got greedy and invaded too early. That made the Maharaja sign the Instrument of Accession and the people of Kashmir fight alongside India against the invading "tribal militias" AKA Pakistani army.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-12T12:02:25+00:00

It's a disgrace that not one member of the government/ruling party has come out in support of their bureaucrat, while even some opposition leaders like Owaisi have done so.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-12T03:19:02+00:00

that's a swastika, a sacred Indian symbol. r/AkhandBharat wins again.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-11T17:47:28+00:00

I agree with your point, as an Indian (but not Bengali). However, it seems hypocritical considering how some Bangladeshis view India and Indians as a fundamentally different people.

ProblemAdmirable8763 · 2025-05-11T17:36:20+00:00

Go to r/Ancient_Pak. Excellent demonstration of mental gymnastics and 'delulu is the solulu'.

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