Differing from Rahul and official stand of Congress; Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, Anand Sharma and few others hail "Mo-Diplomacy"

So far at least four senior Congress leaders have differed with the party high command's line on the war in Iran and the LPG situation in India. 

Rahul Gandhi and even AICC president Malikarjun Kharge are busy attacking the Modi government, party's key leaders Kamal Nath, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari have backed the government's handling of the crisis.  

Crux of the story 

TWO WARS DIVIDED THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS INTO TWO 

"At least these Congress leaders give more importance to national interests than to play politics in time of international crisis," tweeted Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju naming three of them specifically.  

See the contrast while Rahul Gandhi has called India's foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership "compromised"; Congress MP from Kerala and a former UN deputy Secy Gen, Shashi Tharoor called it "responsible statecraft". 

Congress MP from Punjab Manish Tewari the "government is likely doing the right thing". For his part, Rahul 

urged the Centre to condemn Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing. Days after Khamenei's death.

India took its time and when the moment came, no less than the foreign secretary Vikram Misri signed the condolence book at the Iranian embassy in New Delhi, marking India’s first official response.  

On Thursday, two senior Congress leaders — former Union Minister Anand Sharma and Madhya Pradesh's former Chief Minister Kamal Nath — lauded the Centre's handling of the situation. In a series of posts on X, Anand Sharma complimented the government and called for unity. 

He lauded India's diplomatic handling of the West Asia crisis as "mature and skillful".

Kamal Nath was also seen rejecting the Congress's stance on the LPG situation. The Congress high command has been continuously hitting out at the government over the reported LPG shortage. 

But Kamal Nath said, "There is no such shortage. It is just an atmosphere being created that there is a shortage."

Of course the BJP leaders used the ammunition to attack the Congress. A former Congressma himself; Jyotiraditya Scindia wrote on X. "It is time for the Congress to stop creating fear and distrust among the people to bake their political bread".

"Now, even Congress leader Kamal Nath has himself admitted that there is no shortage of petrol, diesel, or gas in the country," the Union Minister tweeted. 

 

BJP spokesperson, Pradeep Bhandari, reacted to the ongoing tussle in the Congress and said, "Congress leaders know Rahul Gandhi is an opportunist; Anti-India Man!"

Former Union Minister and Congress leader Ashwini Kumar has openly praised the Modi government's stance on the Iran-Israel war issue while holding a mirror to the Congress party.  

The Congress faced a similar situation after India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, 2025, and hit terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir in April.

Shashi Tharoor then put the interests of the country above that of the party's and backed the government. That was even as Rahul Gandhi was criticising the government's "political will".

The Modi government decided to form an all-party delegation on Operation Sindoor, consisting of a 59 parliamentarians, to visit several countries and present India's stance.  

On Operation Sindoor, Rahul Gandhi accused the government of lacking political will and also said that the attacks were conducted to protect PM Modi’s image rather than to deliver a strong blow to terrorism. 

Differing from the stand, both Tharoor and Tewari hailed the operation and the prowess of the Indian Armed Forces. They distanced themselves from the statements of Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul with trusted aide K C Venugopal 

On the other hand, the Congress leadership more often took pro-Pakistan line or a stance that sought to give a bigger space to India's western neighbour than it deserves genuinely.  

A few days back, Pakistan was in the global spotlight -- at least the Congress thought so - as Islamabad positioned itself as the lead mediator in the US-Iran war. 

A few pro-Rahul Congress leaders suggested perhaps India was not doing enough even as compared to Pakistam.

Not only did Pakistan have working relations with both the US and Iran, but it also had a lot at stake in seeing the war resolved and secure passage for its oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. 

However, the move seems to have backfired, with Iran declining to meet any US delegation on Pakistani soil. 

Moreover, by jumping in as a mediator while having a defence pact with Saudi Arabia, which has been pounded by Iran, Pakistan ended up perhaps upsetting both sides.

Now, Iran as well as its Gulf allies would see Pakistan differently.

Understandably, Saudi Arabia is irked. 

The UAE, with which ties have lately come under strain, has rubbed it in by asking a cash-strapped Pakistan to immediately pay back a $3.5 billion (Rs 2.9 lakh crore) loan.

"It seems like Pakistan has massively overplayed their hand," tweeted geopolitical analyst Daniel Bordman. 

And in India, Rahul and his close associates have also 'over depended' on Gen Munir's diplomatic strength while underestimating the talent pool of Dr S Jaishankar and others.  

The External Affairs Minister briefing an all-party meeting, asserted that India cannot act as a "dalal nation" in geopolitics.

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Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing who staged the 2021 coup and is wanted by the ICC is now President of India's eastern neighbour

 Myanmar Junta Chief Min Aung Hlaing Elected President

Nirendra Dev  

The general who staged the 2021 coup and is wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity has formalised his hold on power through a sham election. New Delhi, which depends on Myanmar to deny shelter to Indian insurgents, is watching carefully — and quietly doing business. 

Min Aung Hlaing Becomes President, Posing Dilemma for India ?

The appointment follows elections held across three phases from December 2025 to January 2026 — elections widely condemned as neither free nor credible.

The general, 69, is wanted by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority. He is now Myanmar’s head of state.

Min Aung Hlaing was born in Dawei, in south-eastern Myanmar, into a family with no particular military connection. 

He studied law in Yangon but aspired to a military career, gaining admission to the Defence Services Academy — the country’s elite officer training institution — only on his third attempt. 

For years, his presidential ambitions were blocked by one person: Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy commanded overwhelming popular support and won successive elections. 

When he overthrew her government in 2021, he simultaneously removed the only barrier to his political ascent. Suu Kyi, now 80, has been detained since the coup and no longer poses a political threat. Her party was banned from contesting the recent elections.

“He will not trust anybody enough to take orders from them — he would want to deliver the orders,” said Yanghee Lee, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur for Myanmar. 

Lee described Min Aung Hlaing as a paranoid and deeply suspicious figure — a characterisation that has shaped his style of governance and his approach to alliances.

A military that is a state within a state

Myanmar’s Tatmadaw — the military establishment — has long operated as a parallel state, with its own banks, companies, hospitals, and news outlets, insulated from civilian society and accountable to no external institution. It regards itself as the guardian of Myanmar as a Buddhist Bamar nation, with the Bamar referring to the country’s dominant ethnic group.  

That self-conception has driven decades of conflict with ethnic minority groups — including the Rohingya, the Arakan Army, and numerous others — and has made any meaningful power-sharing arrangement structurally improbable. With Min Aung Hlaing now formally president, that institutional logic has been extended and consolidated.  

For New Delhi, the appointment is neither a surprise nor a comfortable development — but it is, for now, an accepted one.

Security analysts in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, are direct about the dependency. “New Delhi depends a lot on Myanmar to deny Indian insurgents their key forest bases,” one analyst said. The northeast of India has historically contended with insurgent groups that use Myanmar’s dense border forests as sanctuary and resupply routes. 

Any government in Naypyidaw that cooperates on denying that sanctuary is, from New Delhi’s security perspective, a government worth maintaining a working relationship with.

The Modi government has moved toward a pragmatic transactional policy. The democratic concerns that shaped earlier Indian engagement with Myanmar have receded. 

India is now openly prepared to do business with whichever government holds power in Naypyidaw — a posture that mirrors its approach to Bangladesh, where New Delhi has made extraordinary outreach efforts across the political transition.

The calculus is complicated by geography and narcotics. 

Myanmar sits at the heart of the Golden Triangle — the nexus of Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar that produces a significant proportion of the world’s heroin and methamphetamine. 

Drug abuse and smuggling have been severe in Manipur for decades, and the routes run through Myanmar’s ungoverned border territories. 

A Myanmar government that is either unwilling or unable to police those corridors creates a direct security and public health problem for India’s northeast.

On the other side of the ledger: despite the junta’s proximity to China, the Tatmadaw has historically relied on Indian support in managing its conflict with the Arakan Army, and India has provided assistance including Covid vaccines. The relationship is transactional on both sides.

The border that holds everything together

The India-Myanmar border in Mizoram tells the human story that the strategic analysis does not.

Zokhawthar on the Indian side and Rihkhawdar on the Myanmar side — formalised as a border trade point in 1994 — remain a critical economic lifeline for both communities, even as the political situation on the Myanmar side has deteriorated. 

Agricultural goods dominate the exchange: beans, pulses, vegetables, fruits, spices, tobacco. Nearly six percent of Mizoram’s population has livelihoods tied directly or indirectly to this cross-border trade.

A large number of Myanmar citizens have been living in Mizoram since the 2021 coup. The Government of India has not officially designated them as refugees. Humanitarian assistance continues — shouldered primarily by the Mizoram state government, operating without a formal national framework to support it.

Jacob is a shy Class VI student from Myanmar, studying in Zokhawthar. Asked about home, his voice dropped. “My country is burning every day,” he said. 

“I am grateful to India and my Mizo brothers and sisters. A big kalawmein.” His dream, he added softly — “if God, Lal Pa, wills it” — is to become a pilot. 

Min Aung Hlaing is now president. Jacob is in Class VI in Mizoram. Both facts belong to the same story.

Courtesy - The Raisina Hills 

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West Bengal: Court orders police custody for Mofakkerul Islam and Akramul Bagani in Kaliachak incident

Court orders police custody for Mofakkerul Islam and Akramul Bagani in Kaliachak incident

A court has ordered 14 days of police custody for Mofakkerul Islam and 6 days of police custody for Akramul Bagani, the main accused in the Kaliachak incident in Malda in West Bengal. 

Both were arrested for allegedly instigating the mob that gheraoed the BDO office. 

Mofakkerul Islam : Kolkata-based advocate and AIMIM leader 

The protesters were demanding that names be included in the voters’ list and held the judicial officials inside the office without food or water for more than nine hours.

Earlier, a 40-member NIA team arrived in the Malda district to investigate the siege of seven judicial officials at the Kaliyachok-2 BDO office on Wednesday. 

The investigation also covers the subsequent attack on the officials while central forces were in the process of rescuing them. The NIA team reached the Mothabari police station and subsequently visited the BDO office.

On the arrest of Mofakkarul Islam, the mastermind of the Malda incident, Union Minister and BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar said: 

"The NIA investigation going on. Before that, the state CID arresting him felt suspicious to me. Whether this arrest was done for the sake of arrest or to protect him will be known after the investigation. TMC is behind the Malda episode," he said.  

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LoP Suvendu Adhikari, who is taking on Mamata Banerjee in Bhawanipore,  said:  "They (TMC) are trying to do gadbad (in elections). Modi ji has said that 'jungle raj' will be eliminated from West Bengal."

On law and order situation in the poll-bound state, BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar said:

“…I have not seen such an incident in the country before. Everything is happening under the direction of Mamata Banerjee in Bengal… She should be arrested… the Supreme Court should impose Article 356 as soon as possible and conduct elections in a fair manner".  

Altogether 35 people have been arrested and as many as 19 cases have been filed.

Seven court-appointed judicial officers — two of whom were women — were trapped inside the BDO’s office for more than eight hours on Wednesday night until the police escorted them out around 10 PM. 

An eighth officer — a woman — was stranded in her car on the road to the BDO’s office during the agitation in which locals blocked roads, including NH-12.

Even at later stage as the officers were being driven to safety, people blocked roads with bricks and bamboo poles and pelted stones at the passing vehicles, damaging several. 

The NIA team visited these spots and collected samples. The Supreme Court has slammed the state government over the unprecedented episode. 

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Can Mamata get Constitution Shockers ... Art 355 and Art 311 (Clause 2) ?

There would be many ways to tame an errant state Govt. 

The Article 356 can be used and has been used multiple times to topple/dismiss state governments. In such situations, President's Rule could be imposed and by virtue of that the central Govt can take control of the particular state's administrative machinery. 

Apparently, the BJP central leadership is reluctant to impose President's Rule because that they give Mamata Banerjee some chance to claim sympathy votes. 

According to Mamata's chief rival and LoP West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari, "even Mamata wants President's Rule ... but we want her to continue keep the post and then face election". 

There are other Constitutional remedies too.  

-- Article 311 of the Indian Constitution provides crucial safeguards to civil servants against arbitrary dismissal, removal, or reduction in rank. 

It mandates that no employee can be dismissed by an authority lower than their appointing authority. However, clause 2 of the same Article says -- An inquiry to punish an errant official is not required if: 

the employee is dismissed based on conduct that led to a conviction on a criminal charge.

The authority empowered to dismiss/remove is satisfied that it is not reasonably practicable to hold an inquiry, with reasons recorded in writing.

National Security: The President or Governor is satisfied that conducting an inquiry is not in the interest of the security of the State.   

The Election Commission has already handed over the investigation into the gherao of seven judicial officers involved in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Malda to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Things are murky on who and what kinds of power-play were involved in encouraging the protesters or the wrong doers. Hence strict government actions are not ruled out. 

The law, however, says the decision to skip an inquiry under the exceptions can be challenged in a court of law or tribunal (like CAT), as the satisfaction of the authority is subject to judicial review to ensure it is not arbitrary.   

The more stringent action is possible under Article 355. 

This provision of law mandates the Union Government to protect states against external aggression and internal disturbances, ensuring state governments operate according to the Constitution.

 It acts as a safety valve to maintain federal integrity, often serving as a precursor to Article 356 (President's Rule).  

The Article 355 says -- It is the duty of the Union to protect States against external aggression and internal disturbance. 

Article 355 acts as a corrective measure to protect states and guide them to follow the constitution. 

Article 356 is a punitive, ultimate measure to handle the failure of constitutional machinery.

The Article 355 is invoked in instances of internal disturbance or failure to follow central directions. 

In this case, EC's directions can be regarded as mandatory orders for a poll-bound state Govt to follow.

Article 356 is invoked when the state government cannot/does not function according to the Constitution.

 

 

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was first to set the cat among the pigeons by speculating why CV Ananda Bose, her state’s governor since November 2022, had resigned all of a sudden. 

Her party leaders go one step further.  “The BJP always wanted to impose President’s rule in the state,” claimed Mohammad Tauseef Rahman, TMC spokesperson. 

The new Governor R N Ravi is a tough man and as Governor in Nagaland and Tamil Nadu he has courted enough controversies.   

In 2016, the state of Uttarakhand was placed under President's Rule by the Modi Govt within two months of dismissal of the Arunachal Pradesh government.

Dismissing Harish Rawat's regime in Dehradun under Article 356 of the Constitution appears to be yet another addition to the catalogue of constitutional sins committed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government at the Centre.

By doing so, it was largely seen that the Modi Govt also followed the footsteps of the Congress reign at the centre. 

The provisions of the Article 356 -- giving sweeping powers to the central government -- is essentially aimed at restoring constitutional propriety after breakdown of governance in a state, Justice V R Krishna Iyer had once observed.

In 1992-93, the P V Narasimha Rao government at the Centre dismissed four BJP governments -- in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh -- following the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6.  

Even a government led by hardcore socialist Chandrashekhar at the Centre was no different. In 1990, it dismissed the DMK ministry of M. Karunanidhi in Tamil Nadu, despite lack of any adverse report from the state governor, to seek support from Rajiv Gandhi's Congress which was wooing Karunanidhi's rival, J Jayalalitha of the AIADMK.

It also had dismissed the Mahanta Govt in Assam. 

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Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing appointed president after ‘sham’ election :::: "New Delhi depends a lot on Myanmar to deny Indian insurgents any shelter in Myanmar"

Min Aung Hlaing seized control in 2021 and plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaos  

Myanmar’s military has been likened to a state within a state !! 

The former de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi no longer poses a threat, however. the 80-year-old has been detained since the 2021 coup.  

“He will not trust anybody [enough] to take orders from [them] – he would want to deliver the orders,” said Yanghee Lee, a former special rapporteur for Myanmar.

He also added that Min Aung Hlaing is more often seen as a paranoid and also suspicious person.

 

Min Aung Hlaing, the military general who plunged Myanmar into conflict and economic chaos when he took power in the 2021 coup has been appointed president, months after widely condemned sham elections.

Min Aung Hlaing, who is wanted by the prosecutor of the international criminal court for crimes against humanity against the Rohingya Muslim minority, was voted president by lawmakers on Friday. Myanmar’s parliament is dominated by the pro-military party, which won a landslide in one-sided elections earlier this year.

Analysts say Min Aung Hlaing has long sought the role but for years his ambitions were thwarted by the electoral success of the hugely popular Aung San Suu Kyi.

When Suu Kyi's government was ousted from power, her party too was banned from contesting recent elections, which were held across three phases from December (2025) to January this year.  

The general, 69, was born into a family from Dawei, in south east of Myanmar. He studied law at university in Yangon, but longed to join the military and on his third attempt was admitted to the Defence Services Academy, the country’s elite institution for training officers.

Myanmar’s military has been likened to a state within a state, siloed from the rest of society with its own banks, companies, news outlets and hospitals. 

It considers itself the protector of Myanmar as a Buddhist Bamar nation– Bamar referring to the majority ethnic group. 

Security issues vis-a-vis India:

Notably, Myanmar definitely is at the heart of the ‘golden triangle’ of narcotics smuggling - two other countries being Laos and Thailand. 

Drug abuse and smuggling is maximum in Manipur for decades now. 

The Modi government likes a friendly and pragmatic policy towards Myanmar. 

Therefore, the old emotions about democracy is a thing of bygone era. 

India is now open to do business with whichever government is in power in Myanmar. 

For that matter even with Bangladesh; New Delhi has made an extra ordinary rounds of outreach.  

I visited Myanmar border areas in Mizoram side in January this year.

Security analysts in Mizoram state capital, Aizawl, say New Delhi depends a lot on Myanmar to deny Indian insurgents their key forest bases. 

On the other hand, the military junta could be China-friendly, yet the Tatmadaw (military dispensation) relies on Indian support in limiting the Arakan Army and for other welfare measures like Covid vaccines.

Of course a large number of Myanmar citizens are already in Mizoram since the 2021 coup; yet the Government of India has not called them 'refugees' officially.  

The humanitarian assistance continues and the Mizoram government is shouldering it. 

Jacob, a shy Class VI student from Myanmar, studies in Zokhawthar in Mizoram. 

“Hindi… theamlo,” he said softly. “I know English.” His dream, if God—Lal Pa—wills it, is to become a pilot. 

Asked about home, his voice dropped. “My country is burning every day. I am grateful to India and my Mizo brothers and sisters. A big kalawmein.”  

Zokhawthar (India) and Rihkhawdar (Myanmar), formalised as a border trade point in 1994, remain a critical—if largely informal—economic lifeline. 

Agricultural goods such as beans, pulses, vegetables, fruits, spices, and tobacco dominate trade. For nearly six per cent of Mizoram’s population, livelihoods are tied directly or indirectly to this exchange.

Someone who crosses international boundary daily 

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When 'khaas Jugadu' variety of Delhi-wallahs "hijack" people's agenda like Fight against Corruption ... you get a start-up party AAP :::: - A party that sought to legitimize its style of entitlements

The 'Raghav Chadha' episode is a symptom - and perhaps only a tip of iceberg. Poor Anna Hazare did not know what kind of people he was banking on. 

Thanks to the Congress party and UPA-2 legitimizing corruption from the word go -- as soon as the mandate 2009 elections came in -- protagonists like Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi came to the fore.

It all started very profoundly with the Raadia tapes and portfolio allocation of ministers and the roles played by TV anchors.  

Ms Bedi has a history of being a self-seeking (love for daughter) DGP in Mizoram.  In Delhi; the management of perceptions start with IIC and India Habitat Centre (these days the seminar culture has reduced though) and end up with a brief gathering in Press Club of India. So Kira Bedi was always a top and tough cop in Delhi. The same theory goes with IIT story and Jindal operations in Kharagpur. 

Being Jugadu mattered in the NCR. The Moditva phenomenon has got away some of it -- if not the most and hence Left Liberal and press club going intellectuals are also fed up. 

The end of Jugadu system to a large extent is responsible for people's anguish against the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo. It has hardly anything to do with Secularism or even Sickularism. Now comes 'Raghav Chadha' episode. 

Arvind Kejriwal only wants to run "a collective or organised gang...". says Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva. 

This RSS-backed Lotus party leader understands well the complexities of Delhi and the play (or games) of city's 'power politics'. He has long been a close friend of the likes of Vijay Malhotra and Vijay Goel.  

“Deciding who to appoint as a leader or sub-leader is an internal decision of any party. AAP has done it too, but the way it has been written to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that Raghav Chadha should not be allowed to speak is highly objectionable,” Sachdeva said.

Sachdeva with a group of Delhi journalists at Somnath temple - 2022

There are merits in Sachdeva's analysis. the darkest shadow brooding over the socio-political atmosphere of Delhi is 'indebtedness'. There are also other elements like -- 'faida kya'. 

Hence, in 2011-12; everyone and anyone joining the Lokpal movement (of fight against corruption) wanted something or the other. 

Kejriwal did that with pride. As a chief minister; he slept near Rail Bhavan trying to play anarchist. 

The 'sickularism' smitten office bearers of the Press Club once gave permission for a AAP meeting in the club premises. That was dubbed as anti-Modi activism. 

In Noida sector 16 in one media office - a tall gentleman would run around the large office hall and scream 'Swamy narayan' everytime Kejriwal tweeted. 

He would even reprimand young reporters covering the city government but not giving due respect to Kejriwal's Independence Day speech. 

Such was the excitement in the old lanky man that he wanted Kejriwal's Independence Day speech to be compared in importance with the Independence Day address delivered from the ramparts of Red Fort by a lesser mortal called Modi. 

In subsequent period, the AAP government obliged Delhi wallahs by providing liquor at cheap rates and in abundant numbers. That this would turn into their nemesis was not assumed and presumed at all. 

The Raghav Chadha episode reveals many things as of now and much more things may come out in time to come.    

On Raghav Chadha's removal as AAP Rajya Sabha Deputy Leader, BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh says, 

"Use and throw, this is the policy of Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party. National poet Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Shazia Ilmi, Kiran Bedi—the list is long. The people who formed the Aam Aadmi Party, Swati Maliwal, where have they gone?... People are constantly leaving the party. 

They've seen his ugly face. Arvind Kejriwal wears a mask underneath which is corruption, fraud, forgery, loot, and embezzlement. That's why those who joined the Aam Aadmi Party in the name of change are constantly leaving him. The entire Aam Aadmi Party has disintegrated...". 

Chadha (once youngest Rajya Sabha MP) says in his own words - "I am that river which becomes a flood when the time comes",  

Many associates of Hazare are out of AAP. 

Prashant Bhushan and Yoginder Singh were 'kicked out', it was claimed. Kiran Bedi joined BJP in 2015 and there was saffron washout in Delhi -- 3-67 score.

See another point, so far outside Delhi -- the AAP has made big in Punjab (which also has Delhi style socio-political philosophy) and also a bit in Modi's own Gujarat. In the Hindutva pocket western state, it is more because people do not see the Congress as a genuine alternative to the BJP.

In states like Nagaland; the AAP's pledge to eradicate corruption sounded more 'fictional' and a romanticised tale. It never made any penetration in any segment. that's another debate. 

Nagaland's 'jugadu' style begins in crores !!

"You want to end corruption .. so why here," - many AAP leaders have been told in that state.

When the AAP pushed beyond Delhi and made a decisive breakthrough in Punjab, Raghav Chadha was a key organisation man and he had a role in party's expansion.  

 But on April 3rd, 2026 -- a key AAP leader says - "jo darr gaya, samjho marr gaya". 

Does it mean in an as many words? 

Tail piece : 

Raghav Chadha's tweet on 'migration' during Covid19-lockdown made news. 

He was then AAP’s Rajinder Nagar MLA. 

His controversial Twitter missive was later removed from the lawmaker’s social media handle. An advocate, Prashant Patel, reportedly had filed a complaint against the legislator.

The charge against Chadha included creating enmity, hatred and "defaming" Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath under section 500, 505 (2)IPC and section 66 IT Act in Noida in UP.

The UP government had also said it could initiate action against Raghav Chadha for spreading fake news.  

"Reverse migration" had badly hit northern India and people in thousands had started moving out in a panic like situation. On March 20-21, 2020; a large number of them landed in Lucknow and adjoining places and left for smaller towns and district headquarters such as Ballia, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh and Deoria. 

The BJP leaders and central government officials had hinted that this was an orchestrated exodus. 

The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) falls under city government and there was perhaps no business to organise as many as 40 buses if not more for taking 'migrant labour force' and keeping and putting at doorsteps.

Kejriwal and his mischief department were allegedly responsible for the exodus and Chadha was part of AK-team. 

Married to actress  Parineeti Chopra, the snubbed AAP MP Raghav Chadha has miles to go politically and he could be a player in 2027 assembly elections in Punjab. 

Will he put on a saffron scarf ? 

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Bolstering "sea-based" deterrence ::::: Defence Minister Rajnath hints about INS Aridhaman, India's third Nuke-powered ballistic missile submarine

India proposes a fleet of four.

The Indian Navy would then achieve 'true second-strike capability', allowing one submarine to remain on patrol at all times while others undergo maintenance, transit, or serve as reserve vessels.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh hinted at the launch of INS Aridaman, India's third indigenously built nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

Aridhaman is the third of India's highly classified project to build and operate nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Its formal commission will follow in the footsteps of its predecessors, INS Arihant (commissioned in 2016) and INS Arighaat (commissioned in August 2024).

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday hinted at the launch of INS Aridhaman, India's third indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine. In a cryptic post on X, Rajnath Singh said, "It's not just a word, it's a symbol of power. 'Aridhaman'!" 

Equipped with the ability to fire nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, INS Aridhaman is expected to bolster India’s sea-based nuclear deterrence, enhancing both strike potential and survivability in line with the country’s nuclear doctrine.  

India, along with China, is one of only two nuclear powers to explicitly say it will never be the first to launch a nuclear weapon. 

This 'No First Use' (NFU) policy, enshrined in a doctrine adopted in 2003, comes with an unambiguous warning: 

--- any use of a nuclear weapon against India would see the aggressor suffer "massive" and "unacceptable" damage.

India is believed to have already carried out a test of the K-4 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). 

While the government has maintained its customary silence, the test marks steady progress in India's strategic deterrence and its ability to ensure a second strike.

This was the second test launch of the 3,500-km range missile from a submarine. The first launch is believed to have taken place in late 2024. It remains unknown which submarine carried out which launch -- India currently has two operational nuclear subs, INS Arihant and INS Arighaat, with two more undergoing sea trials. Both launches remain formally unacknowledged, in keeping with India's tradition of staying mum about its nuclear weapons.  

As an upgraded variant, INS Aridhaman features a larger hull and double the missile capacity of its predecessors, enhancing India's survivable "second-strike" nuclear deterrent capabilities.  

Rajnath Singh's social media post coincides with his visit to Visakhapatnam, headquarters of the Indian Navy's Eastern Command.

Visakhapatnam also serves as both the construction hub and current home port for India’s nuclear submarine fleet.  

Displacing around 7,000 tonnes, Aridhaman is slightly larger than its predecessors and features a more streamlined hull for improved stealth and acoustic performance. The submarine is powered by an upgraded 83 MW pressurised water reactor (PWR) developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).

Unlike its predecessors, Aridhaman is equipped with eight vertical launch tubes, double the capacity of INS Arihant, enabling it to carry either eight K-4 long-range missiles with a 3,500 km range or up to 24 K-15 missiles with a 750 km range.

The induction of INS Aridhaman will allow India to maintain “continuous at-sea deterrence,” ensuring that at least one nuclear-armed submarine is on patrol at all times.

SSBNs (Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear vessels) provide India with assured second-strike capability: even in the event of a devastating first strike on land-based silos and airbases, an SSBN lurking deep underwater can deliver a retaliatory nuclear strike, making any first strike against India suicidal for an aggressor.

Currently, India operates two SSBNs, INS Arihant and INS Arighaat, with Aridhaman poised to be the third. A fourth, still unnamed SSBN, is planned to follow soon after.  

INS Arihant is the lead ship of Indian Navy's Arihant class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. 

The vessel was built under the Advanced Technology Vessel project at the Ship Building Centre in Visakhapatnam. 

The submarine was launched on 26 July 2009, and after fitting out and extensive sea trials, she was commissioned in August 2016, and deployed operationally in 2018.  

INS Arihant is India's first indigenously built nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), commissioned in August 2016.

The INS Arihant is a 6,000-tonne vessel powered by an 83 MW pressurized water reactor and armed with K-15 (750 km) or K-4 (3,500 km) missiles. 

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