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7th Motilal Nehru Memorial Parliamentary Debate
Mar 28, 2026 · AP
Motions
7th Motilal Nehru Memorial Parliamentary Debate (2026)24 motions
- Round 1THBT governments should allow developers to satisfy wildlife protection requirements through habitat banking.
- Round 1THBT humanity should prioritise saving animals with higher cognitive complexity (EG : elephants) as opposed to a larger number of less complex animals (EG: shrimp).
- Round 1THBT governments should move communities from areas at risk from climate change (e.g. low-lying coastal regions, areas at risk of cyclone) to safer regions, rather than seeking to mitigate the risks (e.g. through constructing seawalls, disaster shelters, etc)
- Round 2TH, as a teenage Olympic medal contender in an early-peaking sport, would retire after achieving major international success.
- Round 2TH, as an emerging sports nation with limited Olympic success, would actively naturalize foreign athletes to compete for its Olympic team.
- Round 2THBT Olympic host cities should make their Olympics sports infrastructure free for residents and local teams to use after the games conclude.
- Round 3THW break up large defense contractors (Lockhead Martin, Raytheon Technologies, BAE Systems, etc).
- Round 3In politically unstable states, THBT praetorian militaries do more harm than good.
- Round 3THO the rise of military veteran groups (eg: American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars in the United States, the Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement in India, etc).
- Round 4THW make shareholders co-pay for any government bailout of companies facing bankruptcy.
- Round 4THR China’s policy pivot away from heavily state subsidising its domestic EV manufacturers.
- Round 4THBT governments of countries with very concentrated, privatised airline markets should operate a publicly run airline.
- Round 5TH, as a Chinese high school student who has admission offers from top-tier Western and Chinese universities, would choose to study in China.
- Round 5THBT Western universities with declining male enrolment rates should implement programmes specifically to attract male students (e.g. AA for men, social clubs or programmes designed to appeal to men, etc).
- Round 5THO educational redshirting.
- Pre-SemifinalsIn developing economies, THS state disincentives (e.g., taxation, licensing restrictions, compliance penalties) against delivery platforms that depend on low-wage gig employment.
- Pre-SemifinalsTHS the rise of digital nomad communities.
- Pre-SemifinalsTHBT union-managed labour pools for workers in strategic industries do more harm than good in the developed world.
- SemifinalsTH, as a general in the IRGC, W surrender to the US government in exchange for unconditional immunity.
- SemifinalsTH, as the Kurdish armed forces based in Iraqi Kurdistan, W pursue an aggressively offensive strategy against Iran.
- SemifinalsTHBT damaging Iran's oil and energy infrastructure does more harm than good to US interests (e.g., that on Kharg Island, Abu Musa etc.)
- Grand FinalTHBT India should not remove eligibility for caste-based affirmative action upon conversion to non-caste religions (eg: a low caste Hindu man losing their affirmative action benefits upon converting to Christianity).
- Grand FinalTHO the rise of transnational religious solidarity movements (eg Pan-Islamic, Pan-Evangelical networks, etc.)
- Grand FinalTHW ban psychedelic rituals.
What gets set here
Economics8%
Environment4%
Sport4%
Education4%
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