News Reports

The assault on a woman doctor in Maharashtra is more than an isolated act of violence. It lays bare a disturbing reality of Indian politics, where many elected representatives, intoxicated by power, behave less like public servants and more like feudal warlords, resorting to intimidation and violence whenever their authority or ego is challenged.

With Satluj, Diljit’s past controversies have returned to focus, from his farmers’ protest stand and refusal to clearly condemn Khalistan to support for Jagtar Singh Johal, named in cases involving Hindu and RSS leaders.

The theft was petty; the negligence and, to a great extent, complicity were grand. Recommendation-based appointments, relaxing of frisking rules, little to no implementation of the pocket-less uniforms rule, and deliberate neglect of the irregularities enabled the theft for months before the lid blew off in June this year.