SC order releasing Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is an innovative one. Carefully worded, it lets him participate in the ongoing electoral process, and doesn’t comment on the merits of the charges against him. The Lok Sabha elections are at the heart of the order. It’s well-intended to preserve electoral democracy.
Haryana BJP govt’s position appears untenable but it may not be prudent to precipitate polls
Haryana developments are an unedifying spectacle. The BJP government’s position appears untenable and its majority should be tested. With Lok Sabha polls on and assembly elections due in October, it may not be prudent to precipitate things. Interim stability must be ensured by what now looks like a caretaker government.
Follow up ICMR protein supplements norms with production regulation, food safety standards
ICMR’s has revised its dietary guidelines after 13 years and rightly called for limiting the consumption of protein supplements. Protein intake is important but not its indiscriminate use. There is no quality control on production either. Both manufacturing and consumption needs regulation. Now, align food standards with these guidelines promptly.
Modi comment shows Ambani-Adani new political cuss word. Demonising job creators is tragic
PM Modi’s comment on cash ‘tempos’ from Ambani-Adani to Congress underlines, regrettably, how ‘unreformed’ our politics is. Like Tata-Birla in the past, Ambani-Adani is the new political cuss word. No country with great power aspirations can demonise its wealth—and job—creators. Making them an electoral punching bag is tragic.
If serious anti incumbency has built up over a decade in Haryana, which cannot be mitigated by a last minute change of CM, better if the citizens if they choose a new government for five years later this year.
PMLA has made bail virtually impossible. As seen from the exceedingly limited relief which could be granted to a sitting CM by the SC. How could the high court or a trial court move to uphold the norm of Bail is the rule, jail the exception created by the SC itself. Such a drastic curtailment of liberty prior to conviction or even commencement of trial should be seen in cases relating to terrorism or abhorrent violent crime. Money laundering is white collar crime, a variant of tax evasion. There is a case for the honourable apex court to review bail jurisprudence comprehensively.