When the honeymoon with civil society is over

Now, the honeymoon with civil society is over; the ministers of Manmohan Singh’s government have begun to denigrate civil society representatives as ‘fronts’ for other political parties; the leaders of Sonia Gandhi’s Congress party have called them ‘self-serving’ non-state actors now. Why this sudden and dramatic shift in just two months—from acquiescence to intimidation, from eulogising to denigration, from ‘glory to civil society’ to ‘let’s investigate these crooks’? History shows similar patterns.

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