{"id":33777,"date":"2023-02-20T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T05:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/?p=33777"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T05:09:56","slug":"the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-feb-20-2022-day-403","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-feb-20-2022-day-403\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary\u2013 Feb 20, 2022; Day 403"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Difficult Word\/ Phrase<\/td><td>Contextual Sense<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Altercation&nbsp;<\/td><td>Noisy quarrel<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Scuttle&nbsp;<\/td><td>cause to fail<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Shoot down&nbsp;<\/td><td>Thwart the passage of<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Brazen&nbsp;<\/td><td>Unrestrained by convention or propriety<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Untenable&nbsp;<\/td><td>incapable of being defended or justified<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Acrimony&nbsp;<\/td><td>A rough and bitter manner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Perverse&nbsp;<\/td><td>showing a deliberate and determined desire to behave in a way that most people think is wrong, unacceptable or unreasonable<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vindicate&nbsp;<\/td><td>Show to be right by providing justification or proof<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Protagonist&nbsp;<\/td><td>A person who backs a politician or a team etc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Plague&nbsp;<\/td><td>Annoy continually or chronically<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tussle&nbsp;<\/td><td>Disorderly fighting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hit home&nbsp;<\/td><td>reach an intended target<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aldermen <strong>altercation (Noisy quarrel)<\/strong>: On the Delhi Mayor poll&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By <strong>barring <\/strong>Lieutenant-Governor\u2019s nominees from voting, the Supreme Court of India has <strong>scuttled (cause to fail) <\/strong>mischief in Delhi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court of India has rightly <strong>shot down (Thwart the passage of)<\/strong> the <strong>brazen (Unrestrained by convention or propriety) <\/strong>and legally <strong>untenable (incapable of being defended or justified) <\/strong>claim that nominated members of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) may be allowed to vote in the election of its Mayor. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought to bend the rules to allow the 10 aldermen, nominated by the Lieutenant-Governor, to vote in the election, despite the law limiting the process to elected Councillors. That a question concerning a mayoral election should engage national attention is due to the political <strong>acrimony (A rough and bitter manner) <\/strong>between the ruling BJP at the Centre and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which runs the elected regime in the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The BJP sought to interpret the relevant provisions in the Constitution and the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act in such a way that the specific bar on nominated members voting in \u201cmeetings\u201d of the corporation should not be applied to its first meeting, at which the Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected. It takes a particularly <strong>perverse (showing a deliberate and determined desire to behave in a way that most people think is wrong, unacceptable or unreasonable) <\/strong>political imagination to argue that \u201cmeetings\u201d do not include the \u201cfirst meeting\u201d. Three attempts to hold the mayoral election, following the MCD polls that took place in December 2022, were stalled by clashes between AAP and BJP councillors over this question. The verdict <strong>vindicates (Show to be right by providing justification or proof) <\/strong>the position of AAP, which has 134 councillors in the 250-member Council, against the BJP\u2019s 104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unfortunate that before the Court, the Lt. Governor also took the questionable political stand that the restriction on the right to vote in Article 243R(2) of the Constitution and the proviso to Section 3(3)(b)(i) of the Act was limited to regular meetings, and not to the first meeting of the Council. The Court rejected the argument, noting that the law provides for the nomination of 10 people \u201cwith special knowledge and experience in municipal administration\u201d, but without any voting right. In keeping with the Court\u2019s order, Lt. Governor V.K. Saxena has now approved February 22 as the date for the election of the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and six members of the Standing Committee. Last year, Parliament passed a law to merge the three corporations in Delhi into a single entity, a decision criticised for reversing the trend of having compact local bodies for better delivery of civic services. Delhi\u2019s lack of statehood is a source of conflict between the Centre and the elected regime in the capital territory, but the political <strong>protagonists (A person who backs a politician or a team etc.) <\/strong>should not allow Delhi\u2019s administrative structures to be <strong>plagued (Annoy continually or chronically) <\/strong>by the <strong>tussle (Disorderly fighting)<\/strong>. The core message from a Constitution Bench judgment of 2018, that elected bodies should not be undermined by unelected administrators, is yet to <strong>hit home (reach an intended target)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to improve your vocabulary further?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicemock.com\/blog\/vocabulary\/the-hindu-editorial-vocabulary-download-free-pdf\/\">Download the Lists of Word-Meanings of Previous Months here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update your vocabulary with the help of this analysis of The Hindu Editorial. 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