Are early elections a possibility? Mamata Banerjee’s decision to withdraw support to the UPA at the Centre has triggered afresh the old debate. The studied ambivalence of the Congress-led regime’s outside supporters—the SP and the BSP—has only compounded the uncertainty. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Filed under india · Tagged anti-graft movement, BSP, coal scam, congress, diesel, FDI, hindustan times, Lok Sabha, LPG, Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati, Mulayam Singh, news, SP, UPA, Vinod Sharma
It’s encouraging that India and Pakistan continue to talk. But while they engage, they’d have to be careful about each other’s sensitivities on issues influencing popular support for peace between the two sub-continental rivals. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Filed under Pakistan, india · Tagged 2611, Haqqani, Hina Rabbani Khar, hindustan times, india, Indo-Pak dialogue, Mumbai attacks, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, PPP, Separated at Birth, Siachen, Sir Creek, Tehrik-e-Taliban, terrorist threat, Vinod Sahrma
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s refusal to join debate in Parliament on the CAG report on what has come to be called Coalgate could prove to be a self defeating exercise in the longer run. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Saturday, September 1, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Filed under india · Tagged bjp, CAG, coal blocks, coalgate, congress, gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, hindustantimes, Narendra Modi, Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Separated at Birth, Team Anna, Vinod Sharma