The Janata government could not have been more inept in its handling of the anti-defection bill. While it had doubtless consulted opposition leaders on the broad principles underlying the measure, it had not at any time made the text available to them. As such, it was not entitled to claim, … Read More
In his statement on the question of the influx of refugees from Bangladesh into north-east India in the Rajya Sabha last Monday, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee has taken a far more optimistic view of the situation than MPs from the region. He has said that 2,191 out of 4,000 refugees … Read More
There will be widespread relief in the country over the resolution, however temporary, of the crisis that has rocked the Janata since April 28 when Mr. Charan Singh resigned from the party’s national executive and parliamentary board. The credit for it must go not only to the mediators who persevered … Read More
Sheikh Abdullah has done well to take the country into confidence and let it know that infiltration has taken place into Jammu and Kashmir from across the line of actual control. As is only to be expected in such cases, he has neither disclosed the magnitude of the problem nor … Read More
No one in India can be surprised by the general tenor either of Mrs. Gandhi’s speech in Delhi on the occasion of the so-called “Save India” day last Wednesday or of the memorandum to the President of the Republic which was released to the press the same day. Both are … Read More
