Mr. Charan Singh’s far from minor ailment and hospitalization for more than a month have not diminished his will to retain his position in the Janata party hierarchy. This much has been obvious from his and his principal lieutenant, Mr. Raj Narain’s earlier actions – his resignation on April 29 … Read More
India should be grateful to Mr. Joseph Nye, the Carter administration’s spokesman on nuclear issues, and Mr. Robert Goheen, the US ambassador in New Delhi, for having spelled out Washington’s strategy for extracting concessions from this country. Since in his letter to Representative Richard Ottinger, leader of American Congressmen who … Read More
For once it is not easy to disagree wholly with Mr. Raj Narain. Even if the Janata Central Parliamentary Board has not been deliberately partisan in asking the UP chief minister to seek a vote of confidence from the state legislature party, it has given that impression by ignoring the … Read More
The second Press Commission, which the Janata Government has set up with remarkable speed, would have been widely welcomed if the first had helped promote in some way the health and independence of the press. But however regrettable, the fact has to be faced that that august body only added … Read More
The hardliners in the Congress headed by Mr. Y.B. Chavan cannot be surprised either by the exit of 15 Rajasthan MLAs (out of 30) within 24 hours of the adoption of the go-it-alone resolution by the two-day political convention in New Delhi or by the interpretation the Maharashtra chief minister, … Read More
It is impossible to disagree with the Shah Commission’s central finding that Mrs. Gandhi imposed the emergency on June 25, 1975, “in a desperate endeavour to save herself from the legitimate compulsion of a judicial verdict against her.” This fact was obvious on June 26, 1975, when the country woke … Read More
Even a cursory reading of Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee’s speech at Jawaharlal Nehru University last Saturday is enough to show that he is pleased with his conduct of foreign policy. He has good reasons to be. Mr Vajpayee’s handling of India’s relations with other countries, especially with its neighbours who … Read More
It is doubtful that anyone in the concerned ministries of information and external affairs has paid the slightest attention to the implications of sending a “delegation” of Indian journalists to China in response to an invitation by Hsinhua, the official Chinese news agency. Alternatively if someone has doubted the wisdom … Read More
Anti-Shah riots have broken out in Iran for the fourth time this year. The occasion has been the fortieth day of the death of a number of persons in the previous clashes with the police. As earlier, the most seriously affected cities have been the Shia religious centre of Qom, … Read More
It will perhaps be unfair to endorse the view expressed by Janata MPs that the motion of no-confidence by the Congress (I) had something to do either with the Shah Commission’s two reports and Mr. Sanjay Gandhi’s arrest or with the party’s victory in the recent by-elections in UP. But … Read More
