While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
The real test will come when – assuming – the NDA coalition comes to power a second time. Will the structures of centralisation of power be dismantled, will ministers and ministries reclaim their legitimate space and autonomy, will state governments controlled by opposition parties – AAP in Delhi – be allowed to breathe free in a spirit of cooperative federalism. It is one thing to stoop to conquer. That everyone – barring the Congress President – does. 2. The more important question – which is where PM ABV comes in, since this column mentions him as a role model – is whether there is a genuine conviction that India is a diverse country, requiring a catholicity of spirit to govern well, Vajpayeeji came to Delhi and Parliament as a young man, left his native Bhopal and provincialism behind. He must have observed a young Republic form before his eyes, heard strange languages in the Central Hall, different styles of dress and diet. Even with 272 of his own sheep in the flock, he would have ruled by consensus. Some allies may have tried his patience, as did his ideological parent. However, there was space in his heart for the largeness of India. A very rare gem in India’s public life.
The climb down is to climb up. Like Britishers BJP would first make a foothold and then slowly finish smaller parties. Congress with all its limitations have no RSS workers to spread BJP.
The real test will come when – assuming – the NDA coalition comes to power a second time. Will the structures of centralisation of power be dismantled, will ministers and ministries reclaim their legitimate space and autonomy, will state governments controlled by opposition parties – AAP in Delhi – be allowed to breathe free in a spirit of cooperative federalism. It is one thing to stoop to conquer. That everyone – barring the Congress President – does. 2. The more important question – which is where PM ABV comes in, since this column mentions him as a role model – is whether there is a genuine conviction that India is a diverse country, requiring a catholicity of spirit to govern well, Vajpayeeji came to Delhi and Parliament as a young man, left his native Bhopal and provincialism behind. He must have observed a young Republic form before his eyes, heard strange languages in the Central Hall, different styles of dress and diet. Even with 272 of his own sheep in the flock, he would have ruled by consensus. Some allies may have tried his patience, as did his ideological parent. However, there was space in his heart for the largeness of India. A very rare gem in India’s public life.
The climb down is to climb up. Like Britishers BJP would first make a foothold and then slowly finish smaller parties. Congress with all its limitations have no RSS workers to spread BJP.