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Intra Departmental Parliamentary Debate: Department of P.G. Studies & Research in Law RDVV, Jabalpur

The document outlines the format for an intra-departmental parliamentary debate. The debate will follow the Asian parliamentary debate format which involves two teams - a government team that supports the debate topic and an opposition team that opposes it. Each team has three speakers that will present speeches in alternating order, with each speech lasting seven minutes. The allowed speeches and order of speaking are described. Participants can also pose "points of information" or questions to the opposing team between the first and sixth minutes of each speech. The debate aims to follow dress code and language guidelines and includes contact information for queries.

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Intra Departmental Parliamentary Debate: Department of P.G. Studies & Research in Law RDVV, Jabalpur

The document outlines the format for an intra-departmental parliamentary debate. The debate will follow the Asian parliamentary debate format which involves two teams - a government team that supports the debate topic and an opposition team that opposes it. Each team has three speakers that will present speeches in alternating order, with each speech lasting seven minutes. The allowed speeches and order of speaking are described. Participants can also pose "points of information" or questions to the opposing team between the first and sixth minutes of each speech. The debate aims to follow dress code and language guidelines and includes contact information for queries.

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INTRA DEPARTMENTAL

PARLIAMENTARY
DEBATE
Department of P.G. studies &
Research in Law
RDVV, Jabalpur
INTRA-DEPARTMENTAL PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE

The Intra-Departmental Parliamentary debate will be organised on the lines of Asian


Parliamentary Debate.

The format of Asian Parliamentary debate is such that, it has two teams. One team is called
the government team, and the other team is called the Opposition team. Sometimes they are
referred as the Affirmative and the Negative team. (The names don’t really matter that much,
but just for you to understand the terminology.) The Government team will always support
the topic and the Opposition team must oppose the topic. The participants usually don’t have
a choice whether they are the Government or the Opposition on a topic.

Each team will have three speakers. Three in Government and three in Opposition and they
will speak in alternating order. Each speaker will speak for seven minutes. So an entire
debate will take 42 minutes.

SPEECHES

1. Prime minister presents the case.


2. Leader of opposition presents its own arguments and rebuts the government’s
argument.
3. Deputy PM has his own argument(s) and makes some rebuttal, he/she should not
forget that he/she has to speak about the arguments of the PM and reaffirm them.
4. Deputy leader of opposition shall make his own argument(s) and makes some
rebuttal, he/she should not forget that he/she has to speak about the arguments of
the leader of opposition and reaffirm them.
5. The government whip’s main task is to rebut and is allowed to present “new
matter” but is advised not to.
6. The opposition whip’s can only rebut.

At the end of those 42 minutes, both the teams will get to make an extra speech. It is kind of a
summation speech, where you are comparing the teams, and are trying to persuade the judge
Why their team should win. No new arguments are introduced at this stage. At the end of
those six speeches, the teams get to make a reply speech. This one is shorter and will be only
4 minutes long.

The government team starts the debate by making the first speech, In reply speech the
Opposition team will start, by giving the first reply speech. So in essence, the Government
team always start the debate, and they always end the debate by having the last reply speech.

POINT OF INFORMATION

When speakers are speaking, between the first and the sixth minute of every speech, speakers
from the other side have the opportunity to rise up and offer a question. Every speaker :
Government speaker or Opposition speaker has the chance to be questioned by the other team
during their speech.
So any member of the opposite team can say “Point of information, Can I ask a question? ”
The speaker has to accept the question , the speaker can say “Yes, go ahead, ask your
question”, the question has to be short, about 15 seconds long, that is about two sentence
and then the speaker has to respond to it.

• You can only ask points of information to the other team, and not to your own team.
• Maximum two points of information are allowed in each speech.
• There are no points of information in the reply speech (points of information are
allowed in the first six speeches in the debate).
• Point of information are allowed only on the ground of facts.

NOTE

• DRESS CODE : Indian


• LANGUAGE: Hindi and English

For any queries contact-

• Ms. Ankita Bisen (Faculty) : 9424358136


• Ms. Shuchi Gupta : 9479641412
• Ms. Shivani Khare (For Registration) : 8225801509
• Ms. Anchal Singh (Registration of Volunteers) : 8109949096

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