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What does the change mean

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By K.N. Pandita

During six weeks-long election campaign, word “change” was the refrain first with AAP during Delhi Assembly election and then with BJP in parliamentary election. Ordinary people orchestrated the slogan of their leaders. But many did not bother to go into the content and substance of the change they asked for. To many it didn’t go beyond marginal economic relief, while for others it meant fringe improvement in quality of life.   Continue Reading…

Subject: Sonia Gandhi – A Blot on the Nation

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(Sources: Jayasreesaranathan’s Blog, by Mark Tully, January 26, 2014, and first on Dialogue India.in).

A replay by K.N. Pandita, Jammu:

Sir,

William “Mark” Tully, OBE. He worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1994. He held the position of Chief of Bureau, BBC, Delhi for 20 years Padma Shree, KBE, Padma Bhushan, one of the most respected journalists in the world, writes on Indian Politics: An eye opener account, not known to most of the Indians.   Continue Reading…

Row over Nawaz invitation

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By K.N. Pandita

A thousand and one times Congress leadership, right from Nehru down to Manmohan Singh, kept harping on importance of good relations with Pakistan. Once asked which the most important country for India was, Nehru replied it was Pakistan because it was so close to us in all respects. And he was right.   Continue Reading…

Harsh lessons from election

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By K.N. Pandita

There is change of guard in New Delhi. The baton goes into the hands of BJP after a decade long wait.

For BJP, the wait, however, proved a blessing in disguise. Mega scams and entrenched corruption on one hand and UPA’s stubborn resistance to exposing corrupt persons on the other convinced the electorate that the Congress had spurned its old and classical moral standpoint. It could not be trusted as the watch dog of their interests.   Continue Reading…

The triumph of democracy

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By K.N. Pandita

The ninth and the last phase of polling for the 16th Lok Sabha that begun on April 7 will come to grand finale in a couple of days. The world has not seen an election of such a large scale in which 814 million eligible voters were issued ballot papers. Spread over about six weeks, the electorate were to elect 543 members to the Lok Sabha. In comparison to 2009 parliamentary election, the 2014 election saw an increase of 100 million more voters which is equal to the population of the Philippines.   Continue Reading…