DATE: 23/11/2018
Friday
Current Affairs
Prepared by: Maharana Sibasankar
Sources: THE HINDU and the Indian Express
- THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR STATE ASSEMBLY WAS DISSOLVED
- The Jammu and Kashmir state assembly was dissolved by the Governor.
- As per the Section 53(2)(b) of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution, The Governor is empowered to dissolve the state assembly.
- Jammu and Kashmir state assembly has 87 members. It requires support of 44 members to attain majority.
- The Election Commission (EC) will check if there is any need of imposing the model code of conduct before the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir.
- The poll panel had decided that a model pole code will come into force in the states where assemblies are dissolved prematurely.
- The poll code bars the caretaker government and the party in power from taking policy decisions.
- Telangana was the first state to experience such poll code.
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