Some of the recent developments should help freeze the political situation in Maharashtra. In consultation with the erstwhile BLD and Jana Sangh leaders, Mr. Charan Singh has turned down the proposal that Mr. Uttam Rao Patil be replaced as leader of the state legislature party by someone more acceptable to … Read More
The political atmosphere in India has been so charged in recent years that any number of people have felt free to make any kind of charge against anyone. Indeed, these rumour mongers and retailers of malicious gossip have enjoyed considerable credibility even among reasonably well educated people. This propensity to … Read More
It is doubtless true, as Mr. Morarji Desai has told the Rajya Sabha, that the United States has not formally broken the agreement with this country in respect of the supply of enriched uranium for Tarapur. But in essence it has. For it has placed on its statute book a … Read More
In finally turning down India’s request for 7.6 tonnes of enriched uranium for Tarapur, the US nuclear regulatory commission has disregarded all norms of international relations. It has repudiated unilaterally America’s contractual obligation to supply this fuel for the nuclear power station at Tarapur. It has ignored the fact that … Read More
The newly revived United News of India may well have put Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee in a bit of a spot. By publishing what it believes is the “secret agreement” between Mrs. Gandhi and Mr. Bhutto which the Minister for External Affairs has been talking about, it has in a … Read More
The prime minister has been remarkably candid in his statement to the Lok Sabha on the question of the presence of a plutonium-powered US monitoring device in the Himalayas. This is as it should be in matters which impinge on this country’s relations with another and concern millions of people … Read More
In a signed article which was then misunderstood in some circles as an indirect endorsement of the emergency, I wrote on July 30, 1975: “Most educated persons in the big cities had become so used to demonstrations, strikes and attacks on public property before June 26 that not many of … Read More
It is impossible for us to vouch for the accuracy of the article that has appeared in an American magazine to the effect that the CIA placed two plutonium-powered monitoring units in the Himalayas in the sixties and that they are still there. But similar disclosures regarding the extraordinary activities … Read More
The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee could not have taken a different stand without risking an immediate and serious split in its ranks. For while some of its leaders, including the state chief minister, Mr. Vasantrao Patil, favour co-operation with the Congress (I) if only to keep the coalition going and … Read More
The Karnal by-elections to the Lok Sabha has more or less settled three inter-related issues. It has confirmed that there has been a dramatic decline in the popularity of the Janata, that Mrs. Gandhi’s pull with the people is by no means limited to South India where only recently she … Read More
