Editorial in The Indian Express, New Delhi:
“The B.S. Yediyurappa government in Karnataka is not doing itself any good by persisting in its state of denial…. The Karnataka government’s singular failure (and a mark of its double standards) is its inability to treat the problem as one of law and order. All right, so the government has made a few arrests, but it continues to give the impression that it had better be doing something else.
“A democratically elected government cannot use the “us and them” rhetoric even without intending to. If the law of the land is violated, and innocent people suffer as a result, the government’s first priority should be the re-assertion of the rule of law….
“The government must be perceived to stand for all people in Karnataka. But it seems more bent on looking for a conspiracy against itself and criticising the Centre’s advisories as hasty and deflecting attention from the issue of terrorism. “
Read the full editorial here: Beyond advice
Yes. this sums up the situation in Karnataka very aptly…
Yediyurappa has been blaming his government’s failures are due to the effect od Maata/Mantra conducted by Gowda & Sons, and he expects the situation is going to be normalised after he performs Yajna to counter the spell.
How can we expect anything better from our CEO
Drummer Gupta got his friends in the govt to close the Spindian Express Blog. Let him not preach.
Shekhar Gupta is unofficial spokesperson of Congress party.
Another Blog called War for News was shut through his good offices in the past.
Even MS Sathu spoke in NDTV how opposition are using these events politically to politically malign Yedi Govt, the first BJP one in the South.
Punish those who attack religious house, sentiments to the fullest.
However, do NOT add fuel to the fire.
I shd say the conduct of Bangalore Bishop, BJP MP from Bangalore and some leaders including Ex PM of India are most disgraceful.
But I see that the print version(Bangalore edition) is always not very friendly with the Grand Old Party of India.
Look at these news sources(CNN IBN, NDTV/Aaj Tak Headlines Today, Times Now; The Hindu/New IE), it is like each media-house owes its allegiance to a political segment and every news item* is like answering/questioning the other political section! It is like no one’s representing the much clichéd Aam Admi!
* real news that matter!
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/24/stories/2008092455110500.htm
Seers want law to ban conversion
The way Bangalore Bishop reacted to Chief Minster at his house probably hastened this. Psuedos never learn. Now, its going to be played on villages, mohallas.
what exactly is this ‘law of the land’ that i hear about suddenly? is this the law that gets frequently changed to give special privileges to everybody’s chosen caste/clan?
Not an Oscar winner
Lightweights of Fernandes’s stripe naturally believe that they are embedded in an alternate power structure, one that doesn’t recognise the cabinet as paramount. For them, the party’s high command is the source of their authority. They have no incentive to work with their colleagues or the prime minister; indeed, they might think they have good reason to undermine the PM — for example, by periodically calling for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/not-an-oscar-winner/365439/
Under what category of rhetoric does Manmohan singh’s independence decision of ‘Muslims to have the first right over National Resources’ fall into.