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| The mud is flying | | Sonia wields power without any responsibility | | | POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI, June 25: The Congress president and chairperson of the ruling UPA (United Progressive Alliance) has emerged as a highly important political force.One day, Rae Bareli. The next, Chakan da Bagh (Jammu region), flagging off only the second intra-Kashmir bus link since India and Pakistan began their snail-like peace process.
Sonia Gandhi's frenzied shift of gears from domestic to foreign policy, begs the question. Is the view from 10 Janpath clouded by the challenge of staying in government, all the while knowing that what's good for India may not necessarily win brownie points in India? Is Sonia afraid that decisions taken to boost India's economy through liberalisation and attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in infrastructure projects in the metros and surrounding areas, leave its vast agricultural poor and key voter base, out of the circle?
Does that explain the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance's ever sharper directives to her chosen nominee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, against the fuel price hike and for improvin... | |
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| Kashmiri Pandits can't be taken for a ride | | PM for separate talks with migrant representatives | | | From B L Kak
NEW DELHI, June 25: In a quiet move, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has commissioned a team of 'researchers' to prepare a list of 'acceptable' representatives of the uprooted community of Kashmiri Pandits. This unpublished exercise appears to be a prelude to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh's intention to hold separate talks with 'chosen' representatives of the Kashmir Pandit migrants.
Need for the exercise is said to have been the outcome of a raft of letters Prime Minister received from a set of 'angry' Kashmiri Pandit (KP) leaders for having been sidelined, or ignored, when formal invitation was sent to only a select group of KP leaders for the recent round-ta... | |
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