Sonia Gandhi was able to resurrect Congress successfully precisely because she was not power hungry, and she made the sacrifice to keep Congress together.
For a government so endowed with modern, mostly foreign-educated offspring of old party stalwarts, it is phenomenally inadequate when it comes to dealing with protests.
While Asiad 1982 became Rajiv Gandhi’s great launchpad, the CWG 2010 has become the UPA’s first act of nationally acknowledged and self-inflicted incompetence.
With decline in Centre's powers & rise in state's bargaining powers, people now see their CM as the main reason they vote for one party — there is more to this power than protocol.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Wouldn’t India be a better place if Mountbatten – for all his familial love for India – had been the first prime minister of India?