'All The World’s a Stage...
' In his weekly-column for The Indian Express , senior Congress leader P Chidambaram highlights how post the 4 June Lok Sabha results, there has been a restoration of democratic norms in India. The piece outlines key changes expected in parliamentary proceedings, including a more balanced representation in House Committees and the acknowledgment of a Leader of the Opposition. "The people have spoken.
They value freedom, right to speech and expression, right to privacy, and right to protest. The government must give up its penchant for filing spurious cases for ‘sedition’ and ‘defamation’. ‘Encounter’ and ‘bulldozer justice’ must be abandoned (a lesson especially to Mr Adityanath, chief minister of U.
P.). The Ram Temple is beyond politics and should never again be invoked for political purposes.
.." P Chidambaram, for The Indian Express ADVERTISEMENT REMOVE AD The Old Order Changeth, Yielding Place to New? Writing for Hindustan Times , senior journalist Karan Thapar talks about the implications of the election results on the national political narrative and the challenges they pose to the existing power dynamics.
Though PM Narendra Modi-led BJP will form the government for the third-consecutive time, Thapar believes, this will be done in "circumstances that are dramatically different to what he (Modi) envisaged." "The key question is can Modi, temperamentally and psychologically, adjust to the very different circumstances he now face.
