Justin Trudeau’s plane not being allowed to land until he agreed to discuss Sikh radicalism underlines an unedifying turn in India-Canada ties. While it’s admirable that India stood up to a G7 power, it could have been avoided if vote-bank politics didn’t make Trudeau play fast and loose with radicals.
Repairing EC’s institutional damage will take generations of commissioners with wisdom and spine
Indian police routinely draws derision for posting cops outside a house after it has been burgled. EC’s action on Karnataka BJP’s deeply offensive post just as polling was ending falls in the same category. Repairing EC’s self-inflicted institutional damage will take some future generations of commissioners with wisdom and spine.
Mayawati’s implicit support to BJP isn’t implicit anymore—she may as well join NDA
First, she changed the Jaunpur candidate, giving BJP the edge. Now Mayawati has sacked her political heir for remarks against the Modi government. Her implicit support isn’t implicit anymore — she may as well join NDA. Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds only accentuates BSP’s credibility crisis.
Perhaps the BJP is not interested in BSP joining it as an ally. Content to let the party wither away to irrelevance, poach her captive vote bank.