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India's Gandhi God-Kings
Opaque family rule is no way to run a political party, let alone a major economy and aspiring great power.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575378590961975082.html
- OPINION INDIA
- JULY 20, 2010
To make sense of the latest storm in the tea cup of Indian politics, you need to wrap your mind around a curious epithet: intellectual arrogance. That, says Digvijay Singh, a senior leader of the ruling Congress Party, is the problem with Home Minister P. Chidambaram, the man tasked with perhaps the toughest job in Indian public life—keeping its 1.1 billion citizens safe.
Mr. Singh's broadside against his party colleague, launched in an op-ed in April and repeated Saturday in a television interview, comes against the backdrop of a deepening insurgency by Maoist rebels in eastern and central India that has claimed nearly 800 lives this year. By suggesting that Mr. Chidambaram pays too much attention to security, and not enough to public welfare, Mr. Singh has triggered a flurry of speculation about government policy on what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (no relation) has called the country's "most serious security problem."
Has the home minister lost the confidence of his party's leadership? Will the current law-
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The contents are common knowledge in India--with no solution in sight.
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