It looks as if the Prime Minister, Mr Morarji Desai, has finally made up his mind to reshuffle the Union cabinet and allocate to someone of his choice the Home portfolio which has been lying vacant since Mr Charan Singh resigned on June 29 last year. If this is indeed … Read More
In response to requests by his Cabinet colleagues, Mr. L.K. Advani has agreed not to press his resignation from the government. But that cannot and does not detract from the fact that he has been unhappy with the Prime Minister’s stand on the question of an inquiry into charges against … Read More
The issue appears to have been finally joined between Mr. Morarji Desai and Mr. Charan Singh. But it is difficult to be sure. The former home minister has backed down in the past and may well do so in the future. Indeed, even as late as Thursday night, that is … Read More
Those of Mrs. Gandhi’s followers who have resorted to violence to protest against her imprisonment and expulsion from the Lok Sabha have done her grave injustice and her cause great harm. The former Prime Minister has been at pains to emphasize, on the one hand, her opposition to violent agitations, … Read More
The imprisonment of Mrs. Gandhi and her expulsion from Parliament must inevitably raise two questions – whether the punishment is excessive and whether the manner in which the Janata leadership has taken this decision augurs well for the future of effective and fair government in the country. The first question … Read More
It is particularly surprising that Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan has reacted the way he has to Mr. Charan Singh’s cautiously worded suggestion that the Janata be wound up and its constituents be revived as separate parties which should then run the Union and state governments under their control as coalitions. He … Read More
Time alone will show conclusively whether the Janata parliamentary party and its leadership will have reason to rue their decision to expel Mrs. Gandhi from the Lok Sabha and imprison her on the charge of breach of privilege. But on the present reckoning, it does look as if they will … Read More
It is not easy to interpret Charan Singh’s recent moves. His latest statement to the press whereby he has suggested that the Janata’s constituents should return to their old status as separate parties makes the task even more difficult. Indeed, it is possible that he himself is groping for a … Read More
It is naive to say, as the ministry of external affairs has said in slightly different words, that the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the United States and China, involving, as they do, the severance of diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipeh, is the logical culmination of the process … Read More
It is in a sense pointless to criticize Congress (I) and CPI members of the Rajya Sabha for having obstructed the business of the House on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This is so not so much because they had a legitimate grievance – the government had refused to concede their … Read More
