Posted by sanjaykaul on February 17, 2012 · 5 Comments
17th February, 2012 To Dr. S.Y. Quraishi Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi-110001 Tel: 011-23717391 Fax: 011-23713412 Dear Dr. Quraishi On 31st of December last year, just as the new year was taking over from the old, parts of a blog I had posted a few days before … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on July 31, 2011 · 1 Comment
This last month has been a smorgasbord of events, debacles, disasters, revelations, scams and even more scam mongering. This post tries to do justice. Trained to Kill Even as Trinamool Congress tastes power inWest Bengal, and the mercurial Mamta Bannerjee slides out of her Ministerial chair at Railway Bhavan, we notice the inauspicious start to … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on April 11, 2011 · 3 Comments
Irrespective that the crusade by Anna Hazare was a result of circumstances created by the BJP and the collective opposition’s hard line on corruption under the UPA regime, the point remains that the Lokpal Bill is a bitter pill for the Congress to swallow. But looking at the mood of the nation, it will have … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Chief Minister Sheila Dixit of Delhi is showing signs of belligerence after the PM appointed Shunglu Committee indicted her and her government in the CWG scam. Now in an unprecedented move she has proposed the appointment of the state’s Chief Secretary as the state election commissioner. Is she nervous, or just playing for a draw. … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on March 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The measured and strategic positions that the BJP has taken on various issues lately and for some time on some issues have now come full circle and as recent developments have shown, the BJP is looking more and more like the party you can trust to govern at the centre. Three developments in quick succession … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The proposal by the Delhi CM to split up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ostensibly to bring greater efficiency to the corruption ridden body has failed to answer some key questions and raised doubts about her intentions. Why would a Chief Minister who has always complained about multiplicity of authority in Delhi, now want some … Read more
Filed under Governance, Politics · Tagged with BJP, Chief Minister of Delhi, Congress, corruption, East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, India, MCD, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, municipal elections, Municipality of Delhi, New Delhi, Sanjay Kaul, Shiela Dixit, trifurcation of the MCD
Posted by sanjaykaul on November 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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Posted by sanjaykaul on November 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Posted by sanjaykaul on November 1, 2010 · 2 Comments
The Government of India’s choice of interlocuters had raised eyebrows. Now they are raising hackles. The ‘open mind and big heart’, as one of the interlocuters declared with gusto, is looking more like an open mine and a big mouth. Academicians are particularly destined to carry their share of the dubious weight of collective memory. … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on September 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Written to commemorate India’s sixty-third year of Independence, this post argues that without a well defined sense of identity, nations fail to be great. And that Nehruvian political tradition has asphyxiated our natural oeuvre. Sixty Three years after independence, even as we ponder what we have made of this nation, there will be tributes to … Read more
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