Pawar Politics; Delhi Demolition; Go Gone
Opinion Watch
Pawar Politics
The Asian Age in its Editorial has said that Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar, who is a master of political theatre, must come with a solution amid raging drama over resignation as president of the Nationalist Congress Party and the subsequent statement that he would reconsider decision. The daily has nailed that the resignation drama to threat of the NCP splitting, as prospect of his nephew Ajit Pawar moving to the BJP remains alive.
The daily has, however, underlined that for Pawar a post in the party is immaterial, for he enjoys considerable heft in the national and state politics. The newspaper also stressed that Opposition, including Congress, is at crossroads and seasoned hands of Pawar would be needed next year.
The BJP knows too many ways to blunt and block moves in the party’s aspirations to keep winning elections. Pawar’s relevance in national politics is now just a media imagination. He and his party are on fast lane to irrelevance, and politics of legacy also has an expiry date.
Delhi Demolition
The Pioneer in its Editorial has lamented that the growing incidents of encroachments of the national monuments in the country. The number has gone up from 321 in 2019 to 356 in 2022, said that daily, while stating the poor people evicted from Tughlaqabad had paid bribes even to police personnel to stay in their homes.
The Noida-based daily praised the Delhi High Court for ordering demolition. It rued, however, that no government takes actions against officials under whose watch habitations rose on encroached land.
ASI-protected land surely needed to be cleared of encroachments, but the Delhi High Court should also order similar demolition drive of Sanik Farms in South Delhi where the filthy rich, with many having dubious backgrounds, squat on encroached land.
Go Gone
The Economic Times in its Editorial has said that Go First has joined a long list of failed airlines such as Damania, East West, ModiLuft, Jet Airways, Kingfisher, while the peer SpiceJet is struggling. The daily has blamed policy getting in the way of market-linked price mechanism to allow the airlines to survive.
The business daily pinned down reasons for failure of airlines in their inability cover the cost, principally the fuel cost. Also, it added, there is a lack of adequate aviation infrastructure in the country.
Go First has issues with engines also, but worrisome if the fact of stingy taxation of fuels. Middle class suffers in silence in paying for LPG cylinders, petrol and diesel, while airlines such as Go First bleed with exorbitant cost of air turbine fuel.
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