In a policy slipstream

From end-January, when the five-state Assembly elections commenced, till the counting day on March 6, while the nation waited and guessed, the external environment mutated. Maldives had a President nudged out at gun point, albeit sheathed in political betrayal; an Israeli diplomatic vehicle was blown up in the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi by elements, particularly after the Bangkok fiasco, that appeared to have Iranian antecedents; the Indian Coast Guard intercepted an Italian vessel for shooting dead two Indian fishermen beyond Indian territorial waters, thus leading to contested jurisdiction and nationalistic finger-pointing by India; and as the situation deteriorated in Syria, India voted for a UN Security Council resolution that China and Russia eventually vetoed.

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