UPA II will be felled by people's anger -
Sandeep Bamzai, Mail Today
Effete, ineffectual, enfeebled and weak-kneed - call them what you will, what is now accepted is that this government is under the cosh for being a wimp. The journey southward began as far back as Sharm-el-Sheikh, that is actually the very first tentpole. Ever since, as it hurtled into an abyss, lurching from one crisis to another, trying its best to stay afloat and relevant to the nation's political narrative, the government's first and only reaction has been about self preservation and survival.
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A general practitioner -
Saba Naqvi, Outlook India
There is that moment in the story of a sinking ship, when its biggest crash comes after it hits the iceberg, after which it is only a matter of conjecture how long the vessel will stay afloat. The cracks had already appeared in the Manmohan Singh boat as scam after scam erupted in his second term. The most serious damage came when his law minister appeared to have been caught red-handed last week for trying to shield the prime minister from the embers of Coalgate (undermining several institutions in the process)....
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India tested, found wanting -
Bharat Karnad, NewIndianExpress
A Chinese military move seriously to test India’s resolve has been on the cards for a long time now. But, this is only a gambit by Beijing to see what level of provocation will get the Indian government to act, and a means to establish a baseline for future actions. Alas, the Chinese planners misjudged how much soft tissue there is in India’s China policy, and foreign and defence policies generally, where spine should be. From the first, the China Study Group (CSG) headed by the National Security Adviser...
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Niti-less UPA and its failed leadership -
Anirban Ganguly, Niti Central
The ruler in the Indian tradition was always exhorted to display prowess, strength and ability for proactive defence. Civilisationally, we were never meant to be a defenceless, ingratiatingly pacific state and we never were. Each time an incursion or invasion took place in the past, our rulers displaying great valiance, resisted and reclaimed. Remember how the ‘armies of Islam’, which had rapidly gobbled up the Byzantine provinces of Palestine and Syria in 636-637 AD and the Sassanid Empire of Persia in 637 AD, reached the frontiers...
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Atalji, by far the most outstanding PM of all! -
LK Advani
In its last 66 years of independence, India has had as many as fourteen Prime Ministers, six of whom have lasted less than one year each. Out of the remaining eight, two ruled the country for more than fifteen years each. These were Pandit Nehru (17 years) and Smt. Indira Gandhi (16 years). There have been four Prime Ministers whose tenure has lasted for five years or more. These have been Dr. Manmohan Singh (9 years), Atal Bihari Vajpayee (6 years), P.V. Narasimha Rao and Rajiv Gandhi (5 years each).
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7 ways to send China a strong message without war -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
The most charitable thing that can be said about the UPA government’s incoherent response to the Chinese incursion into Ladakh’s Debsang Valley is this: maybe, the government has a brilliant plan that we as yet don’t know anything about. On past performance, I wouldn’t bet on this. And surely, the statements of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid don’t inspire confidence. He chose to characterise this blatant Chinese bid to extend its claims in Ladakh as mere “acne” on the face of a beautiful relationship...
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. Against this backdrop, a poll has been conducted by the popular news website LensOnNews.com to explore various scenarios: the outcome of the coming Lok Sabha election in Bihar if the NDA (the BJP-JDU combine) remains intact; secondly if the two allies...
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Pakistan's problem with Islam -
Tufail Ahmad, NewIndianExpress
Over half a century, elections have emerged as turning points in the life of nations, transforming them inevitably on a positive trajectory of freedom, democracy and economic prosperity. However, the May 11 elections in Pakistan are unlikely to create a democratic breakthrough for the Islamic nation, as jihadist organisations have acquired a permanent presence in its society, of the lasting type achieved by Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. In the electoral fray from two parliamentary constituencies of Jhang...
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Why India slowed -
Raghuram Rajan, Mint
For a country as poor as India, growth should be what the US calls a “no-brainer”. It is largely a matter of providing public goods: decent governance, security of life and property, and basic infrastructure such as roads, bridges, ports, and power plants, as well as access to education and basic healthcare. Unlike many equally poor countries, India already has a strong entrepreneurial class, a reasonably large and well-educated middle class, and a number of world-class corporations that can be enlisted in the effort to provide these public goods.
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Damned lies: How the coal scam has gutted the UPA govt -
Venky Vembu, FirstPost
“”No man,” said Abraham Lincoln. “has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” Likewise, no government – even one so deceitful and shamelessly given to lying as the UPA government – can ever be so cohesive as to fool “all of the people all of the time.” Which is why the tangled web of carefully constructed mistruths that the Manmohan Singh government wove in the CoalGate scam is rapidly coming apart. Tuesday’s proceedings before the Supreme Court...
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