By Vijay Darda | 30-09-2013 There were two landmark events last week. First the Supreme Court allowed the right to reject for voters, and then the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi rejected the ordinance that seeks to protect tainted netas. The best part of these two unrelated events was that after a long time it appeared that the apex court
By Vijay Darda | 23-09-2013 Not long ago, the image of India in the West was that it is a country of elephants and snake charmers. No doubt it was true that elephants did walk and still walk on the Indian streets, as did the snake charmers enthral people and still continue to do so with their skills. But
By Vijay Darda | 16-09-2013 One can easily comprehend the sense of self-congratulation that prevails in the RSS-BJP after they have nominated the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as their prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections. Ever since Modi was appointed the chairman of the party’s national campaign committee in Goa, this decision was on the cards.
By Vijay Darda | 09-09-2013 The welcome Judicial Appointments Commission Bill It has become fashionable to criticise the parliamentarians for merely politicking, and ignoring their more serious responsibilities of law making. But I am glad to report that in the just concluded Monsoon Session, a lot of path breaking legislative work was done. The Food Security Bill, the Land
By Vijay Darda | 02-09-2013 There was the usual critical response from the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, after prime minister Manmohan Singh made his statement on the falling rupee. Nothing surprising about the opposition going full throttle against the prime minister, it is their job. But in the din, some key messages were lost. The most important being
By Vijay Darda | 26-08-2013 It may sound like a case of told you so, when some calamity strikes and a friend tells you that he had warned about it beforehand, and you had dismissed his caution with derision. You are left with no option but to wring your hands, and live through the situation with a hope that
By Vijay Darda | 19-08-2013 I have to admit that this Independence Day we did not acquit ourselves with the dignity that is demanded by the sanctity of the occasion. We as a nation collectively forget that our freedom from the colonial rule and imperial dominance of centuries came at a great price. We seem to be taking this
By Vijay Darda | 13-08-2013 Not a mere ceasefire violation The internal political heat generated by the brutal attack by Pakistanis who violated the Line of Control (LoC) and ambushed our jawans to kill five of these bravehearts has subsided. Union defence minister A K Antony has rightly laid the blame at the doorsteps of the Pakistani Army. In
By Vijay Darda | 05-08-2013 As a practicing politician, and a media person, I am aware that the suggestion that I am making will sound amateurish. But cooler reflection on the part of everyone concerned will reveal that sooner or later this is the only right course of action, and taking any other route will have costly and avoidable
By Vijay Darda | 31-07-2013 It is a historic day today. The Congress Working Committee has resolved that a separate state of Telangana should be formed. It has also laid out a road map for the creation of the new state. We the people of Vidarbha welcome this decision with just a cheer. The CWC resolution refers to the
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