EDITORIAL OPINION OF OTHER COLUNMIST IN BANGALORE EDITION OF 16-AUG-2005.
The
EDITORIAL opinion of other columnist in the editorial section is on the political
parties in India and on the U.S - India
ties. The
article titled, The lesser of two evils by Sanjay Subrahmanyam compares the present day
government lead by the Congress and the previous government lead by the B.J.P. Both he feels have no much differences in their
policies and limitations. When he compares the foreign policies of the parties they look similiar and even the economic policies is compared both also have a lot of commoness. Both the parties also have their limiting factors in their allies. The Congress has it in their allies the left parties, the B.J.P in the RSS-VHP combination. The focus of the columnist in the article is on the recent Nanavati commission report. The report he says doesn't bring to justice the leaders of the pogrom against sikhs in 1984 after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The Congress leaders who were directly or indirectly involved in the pogrom may never be punished. The B.J.P did the same in 2002 when Narendra Modi's government backes the killing of muslims in Gujarat after the Godhra incident. Modi still is the chief minister of Gujarat, so the question who is the lesser evil - B.J.P or the Congress.
The article, The great
nuclear handshake by K.Subrahmanyam is about the growing ties between U.S and India. In the past 58 years the relations between U.S and India was that of estranged democracies. This was further jeopardised by the nuclear tests in 1998 by India. The Bush government in its second term realised the need for India's centrality in the Asian balance of power. U.S considers India a partner and a resposible nuclear power. This backed by the lifting of sanctions on India by U.S, Russia and U.K, shows the ties between the democracies is on the right track.
Manoj G.Varghese
Bangalore , India
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