Home Minister Rajnath Singh said government’s new interlocutor on Kashmir would initiate a dialogue “to understand the legitimate aspirations of people”.
The impression is that India’s elite public opinion has not totally woken up to the consequences of underestimating China’s capacity for assertive action.
Shashi Tharoor
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Praiseworthy decision. No one could have anticipated a situation in which the principal opposition party would have fewer than 53 seats in the Lok Sabha. However, that should not have proved a constraint.
Praiseworthy decision. No one could have anticipated a situation in which the principal opposition party would have fewer than 53 seats in the Lok Sabha. However, that should not have proved a constraint.