Opinion Unfathomable
Despite facing terrorist violence for decades,we are yet to evolve a clear policy and strong political will to deal with the menace....
•Shekhar Gupta is right in his concern at our governments neglect of internal security (That dangerous feeling,IE,June 13). Despite facing terrorist violence for decades,we are yet to evolve a clear policy and strong political will to deal with the menace. While India does need faster economic growth and better infrastructure our political leadership doesnt seem to realise the gravity of the situation in the neighbourhood. This neglect of security is difficult to understand especially since we dont lack the human and technological resources needed to put an end to terrorist violence in our cities.
Ved Guliani Hisar
Can of worms
•Yashwant Sinhas resignation from all BJP party posts is not surprising at all (Load off my chest,IE,June 15). By doing so he has only joined Murli Manohar Joshi and Jaswant Singh who have already expressed their views publicly on the partys defeat in the general elections. But unlike Joshi and Singh,Sinha has raised his finger at L.K. Advani as prime ministerial candidate. Arun Jaitleys elevation as opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha has opened a can of worms. But despite the unravelling,the BJP is no more prepared to do an honest soul-searching today as it was on May 16. No gag order on going public will help if the party doesnt listen to its senior leadership.
Manoj Parashar
Greater Noida
•The editorial Make it new (IE,June 13) conveyed serious apprehensions about the BJP reacting out of negativity and fearfulness and missing the opportunity for a much needed overhaul. Internal conflict,factionalism and confusion within have transformed the BJP from the party with a difference to the party of differences. Its leaders are more concerned with succession than the much-endorsed political reinvention. Post-Vajpayee,the party is engulfed by defeatism and stagnation,missing ordinary peoples aspirations and failing to capture the imagination of a younger India.
Vitull K. Gupta Bhatinda
Undone by IPL
•Now that the much-hyped India Twenty20 squad has been successively routed in the game and has crashed out,theres a deafening silence all around (Out,IE,June 15). But it would be uncharitable to blame the cricketers for it is the people of India who put them on a pedestal when they won the T20 world cup last time. Add to this the madness of the IPL which inexplicably made our boys feel invincible. The IPL was Team Indias undoing.
H.R.B. Satyanarayana
Mysore
Sage advice
•Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjees advice to the new speaker,Meira Kumar,is well-meant (Meira should quit party…,IE,June 15). For the duration of her tenure,the speaker had better resign from the party since her current role in the legislature is not a partisan one,and must be seen to be one. Chatterjees tenure was marked by its impartiality,yet there was big trouble. So Kumar had better be cautious from the start.
Madhu Agrawal Delhi
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