Nitish Kumar is back to his usual games with ally BJP and expecting a battered Lalu Yadav to give up his pride in 2020 Bihar polls. But Kumar’s somersaults are now far too predictable to scare BJP, and have depleted his political capital. Voters are resoundingly rejecting such opportunistic politics.
Assam’s retired Army officer case shows how easily the ‘foreigner’ identification process can be manipulated
Mohammad Sanaullah, the retired Army officer who was declared a foreigner by a Foreigners Tribunal in Assam, exposes, once again, the problems of bias in the contentious process of identifying ‘illegal immigrants’. A ‘fabricated’ report by a sub-inspector shows the vulnerability of a process that can so easily be manipulated.
There was a sanctity to the popular verdict of November 2015 which CM Nitish Kumar violated. His political instincts have been faltering from the time he opposed the BJP nominating CM Modi as its prime ministerial candidate. His reputation for being a principled politician and a good administrator has taken a beating. Given the gloom in the opposition camp, he may be good for one last high trapeze act.
The Army has let him down. It showed no such diffidence in dealing with Lt Col Purohit. 2. The NRC is a terrible tragedy. Cynical to the core, because not even a crow is flying back to Bangladesh.