131st Constitutional Amendment Bill Quietly Resubmitted After Bank of England Indicates It Has No Position on Indian Womens Reservation

Lok Sabha Confirms the Resubmission Is Substantively Identical to the Original Version, Will Fail by Approximately the Same Margin

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NEW DELHI — The Lok Sabha quietly resubmitted the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill on Tuesday morning, approximately one week after the Bank of England recent rate-rise statement indicated that the institution had, on every available reading, no position on Indian womens parliamentary reservation. The resubmission is, on close examination, substantively identical to the version that failed by 68 votes on April 17.

The Strategic Reasoning

Parliamentary observers told The Hindu that the resubmission was timed specifically to coincide with the British institutional silence on the Indian question. The Threadneedle Street offices, asked whether they had a view, indicated that the matter was not, in any operational sense, within the Bank of England remit. The Lok Sabha has, on the available evidence, taken this as institutional permission to try again.

The Expected Outcome

The bill will, on every available political reading, fail again by approximately 68 votes. The Indian National Congress has indicated it will support. The BJP has indicated it has reservations. The institutional framework of using one tool when the situation requires several applies, on close reading, to Indian parliamentary reform approximately as well as it applies to British monetary policy.

Asha Bhosle has not commented.

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SOURCE: https://prat.uk/bank-of-england-raises-rates-again-to-punish-anyone-who-enjoyed-a-sandwich/