‘3 months ago, there was a Modi wave…’

Chavan and Uddhav
Editorial, September 15: “Those who beat the drums of their own experience led Maharashtra to the brink of bankruptcy, right? So Prithvirajbaba, on your way out, don’t make a joke out of yourself. Without any experience, you warmed the top seat of a big state like Maharashtra. That has benefited neither that seat nor the state.”
(After CM Prithviraj Chavan pointed out Uddhav Thackeray’s lack of experience in administration)

Madrasas and terror
Editorial, September 16: “Proof of this (link between madrasas and terror) has emerged many times. Madrasas give religious education and in today’s competitive world, is this of any use? Not at all. They fill youngsters’ minds with bitterness, anger. What nationalist lessons and what patriotic songs are taught there? The maulvis should clarify.”

Modi and bypolls
Editorial, September 17: “Connections should not be made between the bypolls and the Modi wave. One must understand that Lok Sabha elections and state bypolls are different. Winds blow differently for every election, and they keep changing after every result…
“The results are as astonishing as they are unexpected. There will doubtless be political echoes of these bypoll results, but there have also been cries of the ‘Modi wave’ receding….  It would not be correct to fix responsibility on the Modi wave if gram panchayat elections have a different result. Modi has been working par excellence at national and international levels…

Floods & Hafiz Saeed
Editorial, September 18: “It is with the objective of sullying the positive atmosphere created among our Muslim brethren in J&K by the armed forces’ work that such statements have been made… It is because Indian political leaders have not stemmed the forked tongue of separatists and jihadi leaders such as Hafiz Saeed that the separatists’ venom continues unabated.”
(After Saeed blamed India for floods in Pakistan)