Riyadh Declaration: Another dud deal by Manmohan Singh - Pt 2
2010-03-05
EVEN AS Prime Minister Singh was busy in demonstrating India’s solidarity with Palestine at Riyadh, there was a total shutdown in Kashmir Valley, adversely affecting normal activities. Public transport remained off the roads in Srinagar city. Shops and other business establishments were closed. It was to protest the damage done to several houses and other buildings by security forces in Sopore town. Families comprising of over 145 people had to face the brunt of the...
Riyadh Declaration: Another dud deal by Manmohan Singh - Pt 1
2010-03-03
DR MANMOHAN Singh is the first Indian Prime Minister in three decades to take vexing issues by their horns. The reforms he advocates are often to the discomfiture of the elite of his party of elites lording over the masses since ages. It is another matter that his boss in the party, Sonia Gandhi, scuttles initiatives that could cost votes or displease party financiers. She lets small time cronies to raise a controversy after Singh’s pronouncements to distance the party from his...
