{"id":234085,"date":"2023-03-24T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T09:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=234085"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:39:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:09:34","slug":"lame-duck-session","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lame-duck-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Lame Duck Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lame duck session refers to the last session of the old Lok Sabha after a new Lok Sabha has been elected as a result of the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u2018lame ducks\u2019 is used to refer to those members of the old house who could not be re-elected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"leftbox-yellow\"><strong>Meaning of &#8220;Lame Duck&#8221;<\/strong>The expression &#8220;lame duck&#8221; originally applied in 18th century Britain to bankrupt businessmen, who were considered as &#8220;lame&#8221; in the sense that the impairment of their powers rendered them vulnerable, like a game bird injured by shot.<br \/>\nBy the 1830s, the usage had been extended to officeholders whose service already had a known termination date. In USA, for instance, a President is considered a &#8220;lame duck&#8221; not only if he has been defeated for re-election, or after his successor has been elected, but also whenever he cannot be, or is known not to be, a candidate for reelection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lame duck session refers to the last session of the old Lok Sabha after a new Lok Sabha has been elected as a result of the general elections. The term \u2018lame ducks\u2019 is used to refer to those members of the old house who could not be re-elected. Meaning of &#8220;Lame Duck&#8221;The expression &#8220;lame duck&#8221;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lame-duck-session\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lame Duck Session<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10350,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}