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Target secession, not campus

By Sidharth Mishra

There is this Member of Parliament from East Delhi (Mahesh Giri) who on the advice of some soothsayer has rechristened himself as Maheish Girri, probably to better his fortune. Said to be from Sri Sri Ravishankar’s Art of Living stable, Girri first emerged in the national Capital in 2011 on Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption forum and quit it soon after he fell on the wrong side of Arvind Kejriwal. Thereafter he joined the BJP.

His rise within the BJP has been meteoric. Union Minister Harshvardhan had to shift base to Chandni Chowk to accommodate Girri as party’s candidate from East Delhi during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. After he entered the Parliament, he was soon accommodated as a party secretary in BJP president Amit Shah’s team. That he is a powerful man is evident from the alacrity with which the government acts on his letters and complaints.
I can recall at least two incidents when he managed to move the government within no time. The first was when he wrote to the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), after former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s death, to rename Aurangzeb Road as APJ Abdul Kalam Road, which was immediately done. Next he filed a complaint on the pro-Afzal Guru rally on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus; again the police took unprecedented steps including the arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
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Uttar Pradesh: Poll time, party time

By Sidharth Mishra

Poll times are party times. If the polls happen to be in the nation’s politically most significant state – Uttar Pradesh, parties would be in plenty. No wonder the master of mergers and defections, Chowdhary Ajit Singh has once again got going. As someone who has allied with almost all the political players who matter in Uttar Pradesh, Ajit Singh is now toying with the idea of a Grand Alliance in the company of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. He is even ready to merge his Rashtriya Lok Dal with Janata Dal (United).
This is not the first time Ajit Singh, who inherited his father and former Prime Minister Chowdhary Charan Singh’s massive political legacy, has sought to merge his party with another national party. He did it first in 1988-89 when the Janata Dal was formed under the leadership of Vishwanath Pratap Singh. The Janata Dal soon split into fragments. A few years later he merged his party with the PV Narasimha Rao-led Congress and also managed to win a ministerial berth.
Thereafter, he successfully bargained for some years with Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party getting 
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High ratings for govt misleading

By Sidharth Mishra
Your reporter isn’t very literate when it comes to the subject of economics. At least, I do not understand the kind of economics that ferrets out various types of rates and concludes, “All is well”. For me, wellness means a reasonable monthly bill at the Kendriya Bhandar, a manageable account of my household expenses, which my better half so meticulously maintains and an acquiescent management of the publishing houses which clear my bills without much pleading.
If these parameters were to be applied to the current socio-economic situation in the country, the mood of the nation is anything but bright. However, I was surprised at the recent results of a survey by a leading news channel, which is not known to be very amenable to Narendra Modi government. The survey concluded that although Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have been coming under opposition fire more often than before, he still retains the support of the majority.
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Free campuses of political patronage

By Sidharth Mishra

We are in the midst of Republic Day celebrations. With the French president in town, the media space has been grabbed by issues related to terrorism and strategic partnership. ‘The Republic’ for the time being has decided to put the Dalit research scholar’s suicide in Hyderabad University on the back burner. Rahul Gandhi is busy rescuing peasants in Bundelkhand, Arvind Kejriwal is now battering the Prime Minister for not making the country safe for Karan Johar’s sexual preferences and HRD Minister Smriti Irani has decided to send the Hyderabad University Vice-Chancellor on an indefinite leave.
The story in Hyderabad University is about rival political groups contesting each other to establish dominance on campus. What is so unusual about it? Student groups do battle it out on campuses. But seldom do we hear of such rivalries turning so bitter that somebody is pushed to take the extreme step of committing suicide.

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Need political will, not FBI report

By Sidharth Mishra
The media last week went to town with Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi’s observations that socialite Sunanda Pushkar, wife of former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, did not die a natural death. What is the big deal about Bassi’s observation? I soon got the answers from the sub-headlines, which said that the observation came after the panel of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) filed its “final” report following the receipt of inputs from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) labs in the United States.
The Police Commissioner refused to share details of the report submitted by AIIMS or the inputs from the FBI lab, which the Delhi Police had forwarded to the apex medical institute for analysis. Now my acquaintances in Delhi Police tell me that the AIIMS report, complete with their analysis of the FBI report, was “inconclusive” from the police point of view and could be sent back to the institute for some clarifications before it can be acted upon for the purpose of prosecution.
Well, that could mean another exchange of official correspondence and a delay of few more months before the police can take a stand on the matter. 
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To take on Pak, dump drug peddlers

By Sidharth Mishra

One of the most intriguing reactions to the recent terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot came from Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal. The junior Badal, who is also the state’s home minister, demanded that more Border Security Force (BSF) troops be deployed along the Punjab border in light of repeated terror attacks. Badal’s statement raised eyebrows for its timing. It was as if the Punjab minister was pre-empting any criticism that his government would face following the assault.
The Punjab government is under attack for allowing the drug trade to flourish in the state. Almost agreeing to the existence of such a trade, Badal is reported to have told a news channel that Punjab was only the transit point and not the centre of the drug trade. The availability of drugs, he argued, was far higher in states like Goa and cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
In an implicit acceptance that his administration and police had failed to check the drug trade in the state, Badal
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Kashmir loses its man of the hour

By Sidharth Mishra

On the eastern periphery of the national Capital right on Delhi-Noida border is a colony developed by the DDA in the early 1990s. Christened as Eastend Apartments, the colony soon became the abode of the retiring politicians and bureaucrats. One among them was an affable gentleman from Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. 
He passed away as chief minister of the Himalayan state on January 6, 2016, breathing his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
From his retirement abode in the national Capital to the Chief Minister’s office in Srinagar, Mufti left behind a trail of unique politics, standing for the people of Jammu and Kashmir against adversaries as far apart as the Pakistan-backed militants on the one hand and men of state and central government agencies on the other. 
The Caravan magazine, sensing that Mufti’s end was near, carried a cover this week describing him as a “collaborator” and the Centre’s new man in Kashmir.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Mufti was a nationalist who believed in Kashmiriyat. Mufti addressed the India Ideas conclave in Goa earlier this winter. Organised by BJP general secretary Ram Madhav’s India Foundation, the get-together did not escape the tag of being a RSS meet with Mufti conversing with the redoubtable former commander of 15 Corp in Srinagar Lt Gen Ata Hasnain its high tide point.
Mufti condemned terrorism in no uncertain terms and claimed that Kashmiriyat was his life’s mission which included rehabilitation of the Pandits in the Valley.
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Pak military as non-state player

By Sidharth Mishra

Sometime in the 1950s, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had called his Chief of Army Staff General KS Thimayya for an urgent meeting. Gen Timmy, as the Chief was popularly addressed, did not exactly enjoy a warm relationship with the Prime Minister. On his way to the Prime Minister’s office, the General could not really gauge the agenda behind this urgent meeting.
Nehru received his Chief with due courtesies and did not take much time to come to the point. “General there is a talk in the town about your performance on the dance floor with a pretty lady at a party,” the Prime Minister said. An officer gifted with excellent wit, Gen Timmy was quick with his reply, “Prime Minister you should be happy that post-office hour I don’t spend time planning a coup.” Both statesmen had made their point and the discussion on the topic ended there.
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