Stopping Akhilesh is a petty and desperate move by BJP

Petty politics is at play in Uttar Pradesh, where the Yogi government has stopped Akhilesh Yadav from flying to Allahabad for a students’ union event. This exposes the desperation and insecurities of the ruling BJP in the face of the looming SP-BSP challenge. Stopping Akhilesh, however, can only hurt BJP.

Summoning Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is just a pointless political spectacle

MPs are known to delay, obstruct and waste time. But the parliamentary panel on IT takes the cake for indulging in triviality by summoning Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to safeguard users’ rights. This smacks of a political witch-hunt and is an insult to the intelligence of India’s Twitter users.