While it is easy enough to ask the Janata leaders to compose their differences in order that they are able to give the country effective government and cope with the challenge Mrs. Indira Gandhi has begun to pose to their party, it is difficult to suggest how best they should … Read More
It is not quite clear why the Janata government has gone back on its earlier decision to provide for preventive detention in the criminal procedure code. The previous move was in a sense ill-conceived because incorporation of the necessary clauses in the Cr.P.C. would have made preventive detention a permanent … Read More
It is not at all surprising that Mr. Y.B. Chavan should have ruled out a merger of the two Congress parties. He and those of his colleagues who feel equally strongly have had enough of Mrs. Gandhi’s leadership and do not wish to be exposed once again to the kind … Read More
It is difficult to say whether the Bihar government’s proposal to amend its decision reserving 26 per cent of the jobs under its control for backward castes will pacify its critics. But on present reckoning this looks unlikely. The Chief minister Mr. Karpoori Thakur, has said that reports regarding the … Read More
Mrs. Indira Gandhi has reemerged as a formidable political figure as a result of the vidhan sabha polls in Karnataka, Andhra and Maharashtra. This is by far the most important outcome of the elections in these three states. No one anticipated or could have anticipated when the polls were announced, … Read More
Unless the Janata government is careful and its foreign policy begins to show concrete results, it will come under sharp attacks which it may not find easy to cope with. Mrs Gandhi has already launched an offensive and it can be only a matter of time before others on the … Read More
A great deal has happened in the region since the Shah of Iran visited India last time in October 1974. This country has had an experience of authoritarian rule which has made a lot more people a lot more sensitive on the denial of personal liberty, suppression of dissent and … Read More
On the occasion of the first Republic Day after the end of the emergency, it may be worthwhile to take a fresh look at the nature of the chance that took place last March. For that may help place developments since in a somewhat clearer perspective. What happened last March … Read More
The Union government has been commendably quick in ordering the Karnataka administration to initiate follow-up action on the Grover Commission’s interim report on charges of corruption and nepotism against the former State Chief Minister, Mr. Devraj Urs, and some of his colleagues. But though the commission has found that four … Read More
It is in all probability a sheer coincidence that Mr. L.I. Mendelevich, the top Soviet negotiator with the USA on the question of the demilitarization of the Indian Ocean, should have come to Delhi in the wake of a shift in Ethiopia’s favour in its war with Somalia. But coincidence … Read More
