On May 14, 2023, the newly elected Congress legislators in Karnataka met to choose their leader. They “passed a one-line resolution, moved by Siddaramaiah and endorsed by Shivakumar and other leaders at the meeting, authorising Kharge to name the new CM,” The Tribune reported. Mallikarjun Kharge was the party’s national president.
Siddaramaiah and D.K. Shivakumar were the two contenders for the post.
On December 12, 2023, the BJP’s newly elected legislators in Rajasthan met to choose the Chief Minister. Their choice was Bhajan Lal Sharma, a first-time member of the assembly. His name was proposed by the former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
According to Newslaundry, the party’s observer, Union minister Rajnath Singh, had handed Raje a slip of paper that allegedly carried the new Chief Minister’s name.
On the night of June 25, 1975, President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the proclamation of the Emergency. The Shah Commission later described the “stratagem adopted by Smt Indira Gandhi to get the Proclamation signed by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed without informing the Cabinet.” The next morning, “the Cabinet met at 6 a.m. and approved the Promulgation of Emergency.”
Indira Gandhi had used Rule 12 of the Transaction of Business Rules, ThePrint reports. It states: “The Prime Minister may, in any case or classes of cases, permit or condone a departure from these rules.”
In the Supreme Court of India, the Chief Justice decides which bench hears which case. On July 6, 2018, in a petition brought by the lawyer Shanti Bhushan, the court confirmed the rule. The court held, as SCC Online reported: “Chief Justice in his individual capacity is the Master of Roster.” The court relied on an earlier judgment of 2018, Asok Pande v. Supreme Court of India.
In December 2017 the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship issued an order on how papers move inside the ministry. The normal channel runs from the dealing assistant or assistant section officer through the section officer and the under secretary to the deputy secretary or director. “All Policy Matters/Matters of importance” go to “the Secretary/Minister through the Senior Adviser.”
At 8 p.m. on November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500 and 1,000 rupee notes would no longer be legal tender. The central board of the Reserve Bank of India had met that day at 5:30 p.m.
Its minutes, reported in March 2019, record an observation on figures the government had given: “The growth rate of the economy mentioned is real rate, while the growth in currency in circulation is nominal.”
Article 121 of the Articles of Association of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, covers decisions of its board. They “shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors appointed pursuant to Article 104B present at the meeting.” Those directors are nominated by the Tata Trusts, which own about two thirds of Tata Sons.
According to the Supreme Court, “Articles 104B and 121 were introduced through a new version of Articles of Association” at the annual general meeting of September 13, 2000.
In July 2018 Parliament added Section 17A to the Prevention of Corruption Act. It states: “No police officer shall conduct any enquiry or inquiry or investigation into any offence alleged” against a public servant “where the alleged offence is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by such public servant,” without prior approval. The deciding authority has three months to give its answer, which it can extend by one month with reasons in writing.
Under Hindu law, a Hindu Undivided Family is headed by a senior member called the karta. The karta, usually the oldest man, makes decisions on economic and social matters for the whole family. The other members are coparceners.
In 2016 the Delhi High Court ruled that the eldest woman of such a family can also be its karta. The court reasoned: “If a male member of an HUF, by virtue of his being the first born eldest, can be a Karta, so can a female member.”
The India Human Development Survey of 2011 and 2012 asked women how their marriages had been decided. According to an analysis by the National Council of Applied Economic Research, only about 5 percent said they had chosen their husband without any input from their families.
Reporting the same 5 percent finding, Business Standard gave a second figure. Seventy-three percent said that their parents or relatives alone had chosen their husband.