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In the 48 hours before polling ends, candidates are not allowed to put out election matter—whether through TV or theatrical performance—calculated to influence voters. Yet that is precisely what the prime minister did.
The government seems to have put all its eggs in the infrastructure investment basket to revive growth and employment.
While the government's goal of digitising electoral rolls sounds laudable in principle, it should first address how the rights of the people would be protected and how it would control the Aadhaar database's potential for fraud.
Discarding a wonderful hymn with a universal and humanist message fits in with what New India wants to be.
With 200 million active mobile subscribers, the company is deemed too big to fail and that is perhaps the reason why the government has chosen to take a stake in it.