Emerging India; Upending Law; Contesting Constitution

Opinion Watch

Emerging India

The Economic Times in its Editorial has called for stepping up private investment amid global equity index rejig favouring India over Taiwan for the second slot. The business daily credited consumption economy of India for its strength against the export-driven economies of Taiwan and China. It spotlighted the global fund moving into the Indian equity markets to argue the case for scaling up capacities by India Inc.

India indeed is the top equity destination among the emerging economies amid theme play of China Plus. India Inc should not let go the opportunity to gain scale and capacity, and find own feet in the competitive global trade footprints.      

Upending Law

In the wake of the Punjab and Haryana High Court stopping the demolition drive in violence-hit Nuh, The Telegraph in its Editorial has hauled the administration over the coal for playing with rules of law. The Kolkata-based daily reasoned that the administration was caught with pants down in keeping tracks of the cow vigilantes who instigated the Nuh riots. The daily also argued that running bulldozers against the properties of the accused is akin to upending law.

The existence of the state is incumbent on an undiluted observance of rules of law. Letting street urchins to smother law is a full-proof recipe to hand over the reins of the state to the mobs.

Contesting Constitution

The Indian Express in its Editorial has slammed former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi for his claims made during the debate in the Rajya Sabha over the Delhi Services Bill that the basic structure of the Constitution is debatable. The Noida-based daily dug out Gogoi’s sanctifying the basic structure doctrine before becoming the CJI, as well as its invocation during key judgments in his tenure. The daily also hit out at Gogoi for toeing the government arguments despite being a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha.

If Gogoi had been speaking freely and only as an interpreter of the jurisprudence, he wouldn’t have been in the Rajya Sabha as a nominated member. The very idea of the nominated members in Parliament flies in the face of the spirit of democracy.  

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Manish Anand

Manish Anand is a senior journalist with more than two decades of hardcore reporting on beats such as Prime Minister’s Office, Parliament, BJP, Congress, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, and scores of Union Ministries.

His past has been with The New Indian Express, The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle, and The Statesman.

For about 15 years, Manish was also a regular commentator and host for talks on AIR on foreign affairs.

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