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Via India Uncut

Amt Verma’s excellent India Uncut blog pointed to the Times of India’s “Leader” Article. I have never been a big fan of the Times of India, neither the news(which I generally get from 100s of sources all over the net) or the op-ed(I like Hindustan Times and Indian Express a lot more).

Gautam Adhikari talks a great game though. Key Quote:

Strangely, in an age when you might presume it’s improbable in a modern democracy, it’s actually difficult to belong to our bandwidth in the Indian political spectrum. It isn’t only because the extremes of a fiercely Hindu nationalist right and an obtusely Neanderthal left, with the Congress party being a muddle in the middle, leave little space for reasoned debate along classically liberal lines.
In fact, a party professing market-oriented liberalism can even be termed unconstitutional. As we have argued in an editorial next to this article, you cannot under the Constitution register a party that debunks socialism or, for that matter, secularism.

 

That second paragraph is astounding. Unconstitutional. IIRC someones been making the effort to get this law changed through the courts, same way Naveen Jindal helped get us the right fly our own flag.

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