The bell tolls for India’s Congress Party -
Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya, Project Syndicate
There is widespread belief in India today that one of the country’s two main political parties, the Indian National Congress, essentially run by Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul Gandhi, has now run its course and will sink into oblivion. According to The Economist: “The Congress Party…is in a funk” and “in danger of…long-term decline.” But the Congress has been written off before: the article from The Economist was published in January 2003. Indeed, the uniform prediction prior to the 2004 election was that, after having lost three...
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Londonistan: In an imaginary homeland, the English jihad rises -
Praveen Swami, FirstPost
It takes a special kind of hate to do what she did: for the slight young woman to walk into the office of a man she had never met; to reach out to shake his hand; to stab him in the abdomen; to pull out the knife, her hands covered in blood, her victim screaming; to dig it in again. “A woman has shown to the ummah’s men the path of jihad,” the Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki’s magazine Inspire exulted after Roshanara Choudhry’s stabbed Member of Parliament Stephen Timms...
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From Bofors to 2G, the same fate -
Arun Kumar, Hindu
The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister then was under a cloud in the Bofors scam. Many of his close associates like Lalit Suri and Ajitabh Bachchan were accused of wrong-doing. Today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and many around him are under a cloud. The Congress president has been weakened by allegations against her son-in-law. The Joint Parliamentary Committee report on Bofors was rejected by the Opposition. It resigned en masse from Parliament forcing national elections.
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Strategic pincer & Trojan horses -
Bharat Karnad, Asian Age
Consider the simplified timeline: on May 4, when the armed intrusion by Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the Depsang Bulge was on-going, the Indian government in an inspired fit announced the extension of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s scheduled visit to Japan by a day (May 27-29). Literally a day later, Beijing, after treating India’s military capability with near contempt — otherwise it wouldn’t have dared risk the intrusion in the first place — agreed to a pullback. It was China’s calculations of a prospective Indo-Japanese...
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A lost decade -
Mint
Truth be told, the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA’s) failures were foretold. The coalition—led by the Congress party—enters a decade in power this week. It is a happy occasion for the UPA but it isn’t for India. Growth has been dented badly and the country’s international prospects have dimmed considerably in the past years. This is no reason for cheer. Any government’s success depends largely on its electoral appeal. The latter is a compound of short-term, electorally-geared, policy steps...
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Stop appeasing the dragon -
Pravin Sawhney, Pioneer
The biggest shortcoming of all treaties signed with China since 1976 has been the absence of military advice in border policy-making. Even during the recent Ladakh crisis, the Army Chief was called only on the 19th day to give a briefing. That the Chinese gamble had paid off could be the reason for Premier Li Keqiang’s broad smile which flashed in all photographs during his recent meetings with Indian leaders. Less than a month before Mr Li was to leave for his first destination abroad (India)...
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With Modi as leader, BJP will sweep UP in LS polls: LensOnNews survey -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH NARENDRA MODI moving to the forefront of national politics and receiving accolades for every speech and every public appearance that he makes, it’s only a question of time before the BJP announces that it will fight the next Lok Sabha polls under his leadership as its PM candidate. Possibly the announcement will come as early as at the two-day national executive meet at Goa on June 8-9. Against this backdrop, a poll has been conducted by the popular news...
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Three polls, one message: No alternative to Modi for BJP -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
Three opinion polls this week on the national political mood have three simple messages embedded in them – two for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and another for the Congress. The polls – one by AC Nielsen for ABP News, another by C-Voter for Headlines Today, and a third by GFK for CNN-IBN – clearly indicate that the Congress is slipping, and slipping badly, in urban India, and possibly all over the country too. It is likely to crash to one of its worst defeats in history.
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Manmohan should be replaced as PM, UPA has lost credibility: Poll -
CNN-IBN
As Congress-led United Progressive Alliance completes four years in office on May 22, what is the mood in urban India? In a 12-city poll conducted by CNN-IBN in age group of 18 years or more, the verdict is emphatic and overwhelmingly against the current regime. The poll reveals that UPA government has lost credibility and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh no longer enjoys confidence of urban India.
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Politician families in business: What aided their meteoric rise -
John Samuel Raja D, Economic Times
Companies run by family members of some politicians are like every other company. And they are not, as these four practices that run through their businesses and have aided their meteoric rise show. Talk about business growth and opportunity. In the last five years, Theon Pharmaceuticals, controlled by the immediate family of former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, has increased in size from Rs 15 crore to Rs 152 crore.
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After nine years in power, UPA faces crisis of credibility -
Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard
Around August 15, 2012, a proposal emanating from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) caused consternation among half a dozen secretaries to the government of India who were asked for comments on it. The suggestion was that from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would announce a scheme for free cell phones to all Below Poverty Line citizens. If mobile phone companies were roped in to provide subsidised service to the poor and the handsets were free, the appeal - to the poor - would be on a par with schemes...
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