On Tuesday February 25 morning, even as 35 companies of paramilitary forces were deployed in North-Eastern Delhi and Commissioner of Police Amulya Patnaik claimed that the situation was under control, violence broke out in Maujpur area with shops ransacked and set ablaze, vehicles torched and stone pelting between groups from two communities. As the day passed, violence continued in the[Read More...]
It’s not even a month when results of Delhi assembly election 2020 was announced where AamAadmi Party returned to power with a landslide victory bagging 62 out of 70 seats. The more commendable accomplishment of the party was that it reduced its opponent BJP to a single digit (8 seats) in a bipolar contest. Delhi witnesses a polarised election campaign[Read More...]
It is hardly difficult to notice the irony that the two most powerful people in Delhi have presided over, abetted and prolonged some of the worst mass-violence in India – that in Gujarat in 2002. Yet, that was in Gujarat, a slight distance away from the capital, Delhi. It was sort of their fiefdom, their corner of the world, and[Read More...]
