{"id":189474,"date":"2022-04-23T02:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=189474"},"modified":"2022-04-23T02:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:21:01","slug":"national-capitals-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/04\/23\/national-capitals-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"National capital\u2019s turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n‘Bulldozer’Politics<\/strong>
\nBy Insaf<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rule of law be damned, rather simply bulldoze it. It\u2019s the \u201cNew India\u201d that the national capital too gets a taste of. On Wednesday last, in a sequence to the communal riots in Jahangiripuri in northwest Delhi on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanthi on Sunday, the BJP-led North Delhi Municipal Corporation took a leaf out of other BJP-ruled States. With no notices issued, bulldozers were run over houses and establishments of a particular community under the garb of \u2018illegal encroachments\u2019. A common pretext for a BJP administration to target the \u201crioters\u201d as was done in Madhya Pradesh days ago, an idea picked from BJP-ruled UP. What is shockingly worse is that authorities didn\u2019t care a hoot that the Supreme Court had ordered them to pause, maintain status quo, following the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, petitioning it early morning saying \u201cthis is completely unauthorised, unconstitutional, demolition.\u201d It did as it was also told that while the demolition was planned to start at 2 pm, it started at 9 am \u201cknowing that we are going to mention it\u201d. The court obliged. But at noon, the Jamiat counsel had to reach out to CJI saying \u201cDespite the world knowing that this court passed orders, they are not stopping\u2026They say order is not communicated\u2026\u201dBrazen dirty tricks! The top court must act. Accepting a big boo to its face shall bulldoze the faith that citizens have in the last surviving bastion of our democratic society.<\/p>\n

Naga Peace Talks
\nWill the Centre and NSCN-IM finally clinch an agreement to usher in peace in Nagaland? Hope is revived, with NSCN-IM leaders, led by General Secretary Th Muivah not only holding talks with Centre\u2019s interlocutor A K Mishra on Tuesday last, but significantly for the first time at the outfit\u2019s headquarters, Camp Hebron near Dimapur.Recall, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the rebel group and New Delhi in 1997. In 2015, the negotiations were renewed by the Modi government which claimed that a Naga peace accord had been signed, details of which were not spelt out. This Tuesday, the talks lasted \u2018over two hours\u2019but no details were shared, other than sources saying these were \u2018fruitful\u2019. It is a challenge for new interlocutor Mishra, a former special director of IB, who replaced R N Ravi, after relations between him and NSCN-IM soured in 2019-20 and he was sent as Tamil Nadu Governor. This time around, the talks took place a week after Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, his Deputy Patton and former CM Zeliang met Modi and Shah in Delhi to discuss the status of peace talks. Disagreement remains on the demand for a separate Naga flag and the Constitution. It\u2019s resolution is anybody\u2019s guess.
\nTMC Dominance
\nThe winning streak continues for the TMC in West Bengal. Under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee it swept the two Lok Sabha bypolls, winning Asansol constituency for the first time since 1998 and retaining its Ballygunge seat in south Kolkata. Incidentally, both the victorious candidates, Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo respectively, had deserted the BJP, which got a drubbing with one of its candidate\u2019s losing her deposit and CPM coming second in Ballygunge. Supriyo thanked Mamata Banerjee for his ghar wapsi\u2019, whereas Shatrughan was upbeat as not only had he broken the Asansol jinx for the party, won by over 3 lakh votes\u2019 margin but gave a befitting reply to BJP, which he had left after his 40 years\u2019 stint with it and a brief one in Congress. The BJP didn\u2019t expect such a result, saying its \u2018going to introspect\u2019. It would have to do a lot more, as the TMC proclaimed, \u201cit\u2019s only going to get better from here.\u201dWill Mamata, the street fighter, be a game changer in 2024 elections?
\nAll Is Well In MVA
\nThe Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra has proved the BJP\u2019s rumour mongering machinery wrong that all was not well among the alliance partners. With a \u2018united\u2019 strategy, the Congress candidate won the Kolhapur North Assembly seat defeating BJP\u2019s in a hotly contested bypoll. Celebrations erupted in all three camps\u2014Congress, Shiv Sena and NCP as it was a rebuttal to Hindutva \u2018divisive politics\u2019 of the BJP. Importantly, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray took a good call. His directive to a disgruntled section of his party cadres to support the Congress candidate worked. Plus, it rattled a confident BJP State President Patil,who said if the party\u2019s candidate lost, he would take sanyas in Himalayas. While that isn\u2019t happening, the bypoll should make the MVA wiser. As a leader said: \u201cOur unity has shown that BJP is easily beatable. And if we remain like this elsewhere in the state, there is no reason why the MVA shouldn\u2019t remain on top in every election.\u201d The Kohlapur formula has indeed sent a strong message for not just the ruling dispensation but the BJP too. It did end up conceding \u201cit was up against MVA\u2019s three constituents\u2014 one-versus-three contest.\u201d<\/p>\n

TN Raj Bhavan Row
\nThe Raj Bhavan in Tamil Nadu should get the message, the government means business. Governor Ravi can\u2019t go on delaying giving assent to the second anti-NEET Bill passed by the Assembly. For DMK Chief Minister Stalin didn\u2019t mince words when he warned the Tamil New Year high tea party and a statue unveiling function organised by Raj Bhavan would be boycotted. It was on Thursday last.Adding to the strained relations between the two. Importantly, NEET abolition bill is among 11 others pending, ever since the Assembly passed it in September. Ravi is alleged to have been sitting on the files for initial 142 days, before sending it back, government returned it for assent, but it wasn\u2019t considered. \u2018It has been held up for 208 days now,\u2019 said a minister.The delay is denying Stalin to fulfil his poll promise\u2014 exempt the State from centralised medical entrance test. But, Ravi insists it would go \u201cagainst students\u2019 interest, especially the poor.\u201d His \u2018uncalled-for critique\u2019 and \u201cbig brother\u201d attitude may help the Centre, but violates the federal structure, arguesthe DMK. It\u2019s time he realisesthat \u2018constitutional propriety\u2019 demands he act on advice of Council of ministers. Sooner the better.<\/p>\n

Intolerant Tweet
\nIs BJP worried about the ensuing Assembly elections in Gujarat or is the growing intolerance rubbing off? The question comes up following the arrest of independent MLA Jignesh Mevani, by the Assam police from Palanpur town in Gujarat on Wednesday night and taken to Assam by air in the early hours. The Congress, which Mevani supports, called the action \u201cundemocratic\u201d, \u201cunconstitutional\u201d and an act of \u201cauthoritarianism\u2019. The latter is what many would agree with. For the reason for Mevani\u2019s arrest is absurd, to say the least. It was over his recent tweets in which he called Prime Minister Modi a supporter of Nathuram Godse. Modi, who \u201cconsiders Godse as God,\u201d should appeal for peace and harmony against communal clashes in Gujarat, he had said. An FIR was filed few days back following a complaint by a BJP executive member in Assam\u2019s autonomous Bodoland Territorial Council, though the tweet has been withheld by Twitter. Besides, the chief judicial magistrate, Kokrajhar, rejected his bail petition and sent him to three-day police custody. Supporters of Mevani have announced that they will protest in Delhi. Not enough. Arrests on basis of FIRs are becoming a near normal against those who question the establishment. Not done in a civilised, democratic society.\u2014 INFA<\/p>\n

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