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.