A dismal debate

Two things depressed me about last week’s debate in the Lok Sabha and neither had anything to do with FDI. The first was the sight of the political princelings and princesses who now appear to constitute the bulk of our younger MPs. On a discreet backbench sat Rahul Gandhi chatting to Milind Deora and Jyotiraditya Scindia. In another corner I spotted the heirs of Sharad Pawar, Chandrashekhar and Chaudhury Charan Singh in a huddle and, unless Doordarshan was making a sly subversive point...

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