Using the Constitution for Partisan Benefits - On the Reservation of Women in the Indian Legislative Assemblies

Using the Constitution for Partisan Benefits - On the Reservation of Women in the Indian Legislative Assemblies Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-10-18 eng Last month, the Indian parliament passed the 106th amendment to the Constitution. It inserted several provisions to the Indian Constitution, collectively providing for horizontal reservation of one-third of directly elected seats of the House of the People, the state legislative assemblies, and the Delhi legislative assembly for women. In this blog, I discuss the political motivations underlying the enactment of this amendment and argue that this amendment is an opportunistic attempt by the incumbent government to reap partisan benefits using the Constitution before the upcoming state and general elections. Such actions demystify the idea that constitutions are a place for high-order politics. The amendment shows that with enough numbers, constitutions could easily be reduced into a political tool for furthering dominant political interests. CC BY-SA 4.0 Jain, Anmol BJP constitutional amendment reservation 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/using-the-constitution-for-partisan-benefits/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/6eafcd36f8f8af3c 231018 10.59704/6eafcd36f8f8af3c Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)