No Suo Motu Notice from Courts for Demolition of Constitution by BJP Governments; Unified Pension Scheme Demystified
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August 26, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
In the face of employee anger – blamed by the BJP leadership for some of the party’s losses in the 2024 Lok Sabha election – the Modi-led Union government agreed to modify its existing pension scheme and introduce what it calls a Unified Pension Scheme. Sravasti Dasgupta reports on why the Opposition is now calling Modi’s third innings a ‘U-Turn Sarkar’.
The cabinet announcing the unified pension scheme on Saturday is an example of the Modi government trying to ‘trip up’ some of the opposition’s electoral planks, Nistula Hebbar notes. This is especially so in view of assembly elections in three states and in
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