CBI must be rescued from UPA’s fear to avoid a travesty of justice -
Arun Jaitley, Economic Times
The Supreme Court in the Jain Hawala case made an attempt to liberate the CBI from political clutches. Its judgment in the Vineet Narayan case laid judicial guidelines that could ensure some element of autonomy for the CBI. However, the CBI in the last few years started enjoying more than a comfortable relationship with the UPA government. This relationship was based on the premise that the directors were appointed from amongst a panel prepared by the CVC and secretaries of the government. It was the Prime Minister who had the last word.
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Not Ashwani, not Bansal, it is the PM who needs to go -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
The Supreme Court has come a long way from the time it wanted to give every benefit of doubt to the Prime Minister (in the 2G scam) to yesterday’s sharp tongue-lashing to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for becoming the government’s “caged parrot”. In February 2011, the court blamed the PMO rather than the PM himself for not allowing Subramanian Swamy to prosecute A Raja in the 2G scam. “Unfortunately, those who were expected to give proper advice to Respondent No 1 (the PM) and place the full facts...
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Phantom democracy -
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Indian Express
The dance of Indian democracy is a virtuoso performance, the functioning of its institutions a monumental catastrophe. This irony is so palpable. Karnataka just witnessed a wonderful election. Participation was high, the contest was keen, the tone moderate. A thoroughly incompetent, corrupt and faction-driven government was thrown out of power. There is no other complication to the story. But how many times has this republic...
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A Hindu hell on earth: Families are being torn apart by their desperation to flee persecution in Pakistan -
Andrew Buncombe, Independent
They had waited for years. So when the opportunity came they took it, even if it meant leaving behind friends and neighbours, brothers and husbands. Even a three-day-old baby boy. Seven weeks ago, almost 500 Hindus from Pakistan crossed into India on the pretence of visiting a religious festival. In reality, they had come to escape religious persecution and poverty. Some said they would rather commit suicide than go back.
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Stuck record: Why Amartya Sen is wrong on food security again -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
It is becoming increasingly difficult to retain respect for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. He seems to surface in the media every time the UPA government is about to legislate its pet follies, providing intellectual succour to mindless spending and corruption wrapped up in the package of anti-poverty schemes. Yesterday, Sen bobbed up just when the UPA – under siege for every known scam in India – tried to start discussions on the Food Security Bill in order to divert attention from scams.
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Coal scam: Will the high-ups be probed? -
S Gurumurthy, NewIndianExpress
Hedging on the likely Congress victory in the Karnataka elections, the Congress party has decided to back Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar who has been caught in a blatant attempt to protect some sensitive person/s in the coal scam. The CBI director has said that Ashwani not only saw the status report on the coal scam, which the CBI was supposed to submit in confidence to the Supreme Court, but he also tinkered with it so that it became as much Ashwani’s report as it is the CBI’s.
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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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