The basic structure (or doctrine) of the Constitution of India applies only to constitutional amendments, which states that the Parliament cannot destroy or alter the basic features of the Indian ...

Federalism, which is the basic structure of our Constitution, cannot be said to be diluted or violated in any manner by use of the expression 'Central Government'.

SR Bommai v Union of India held that federalism was a part of the basic structure of the Constitution. The petition against the Farm Act also purports that the federal structure carpentered by the ...

Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday that the basic structure of the Constitution has a “very debatable jurisprudential basis”. Gogoi was nominated as a ...

One of the greatest cases in the history of the Indian Judiciary, Executive and legislature that made a shock-absorbent base for the Indian Constitution is the Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973 ...

The doctrine protects the 'basic structure' principles from the potential majoritarian tendencies of the legislature.

The Constitution of India is the highest authority governing all branches of democracy. Parliament can amend the Constitution but cannot alter its basic structure.

The need for the basic structure doctrine arose because the Indian Constitution failed to specify a suitable institutional hierarchy, delineation of powers, and checks and balances.

Kesavananda Bharati (KB) vs State of Kerala — a landmark case that defined the concept of the basic structure doctrine of the Indian Constitution — completes 50 years on April 24, and this is ...

Our unique basic structure of the Constitution which protects minorities against majoritarian law-making in Parliament has again come under attack — this time by Rajya Sabha MP Ranjan Gogoi, the ...

Basic Structure Doctrine: Safeguarding the soul of the Constitution The first two decades of Independence saw a build-up of jurisprudence on the limits of the Parliament’s power to amend the ...