Indira Gandhi and her government had gone out of the way to facilitate Sanjay's Maruti scam. At every stage, rules were bent, officials were threatened and coerced into catering to Sanjay Gandhi's whims.
There is a slight trend reversal in progress. It is not strong enough to be called blowback yet, especially with the BJP having just stormed back with 303 Lok Sabha seats. But glitches are happening. And more regularly than expected.
The media keeps saying that Punjab, Delhi and Haryana should resolve the stubble burning issue mutually. This sounds nice and ‘neutral’ because that would mean one Chief Minister each from Congress, AAP and BJP.
The Delhi CM had also tried such gimmicks before the 2019 elections when he had asked schoolchildren to tell their parents not to vote for Modi if they love them.
2019 State elections have concluded in the BJP ruled states of Haryana and Maharashtra. While the Maharashtra mandate was clear, Haryana appeared fractured with BJP winning 40 seats, just short of a majority