Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi marked the start of Chandra Shekhar’s centenary on Friday with an X post that praised his democratic values and urged young people to study his ideas.
- Neeraj Shekhar thanked people for remembering his father and said both the prime minister and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hold him in high regard.
- Reporting the same day noted a scheduled Lok Sabha vote on bills tied to women’s reservation and delimitation, with the government saying seat totals could rise by about 50 percent if the plan takes effect.
- Delimitation refers to redrawing parliamentary boundaries to reflect population changes, which can add seats and shift political weight across states.
- Chandra Shekhar is remembered for his 4,260-km 1983 foot march from Kanyakumari to Rajghat and for serving as India’s eighth prime minister from November 1990 to June 1991.