Modi wants to be Patel, but may end up being Indira

August 27, 2014 15:17

The PMO's statement defending Rajnath Singh, is at best unusual. Rarely has the PMO made a statement dissing rumours or otherwise.

This is what Ashis Nandy writes on the Modi government. "It is obvious within these two months that in many ways Narendra Modi has a great degree of resemblance with Indira Gandhi. The same style of management of power. The same kind of attempt to reduce a large section of the political leadership into, if not spectators, bureaucrats. His leaders are taking orders from him and executing those orders." Read more

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