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I have been appalled, but not amazed, by the ‘idea of India’ utterances of the Congress party’s Dilip Cherian, Sam Pitroda, and Mani Shankar Aiyar recently. They spoke, respectively, of India being an accidental nation (very Churchillian); of Indians in different parts of the country belonging to different races; and of how India needs to appease Pakistan because it has nuclear weapons. When seen juxtaposed with the clearly nihilistic and Stalinist ideas espoused by Rahul Gandhi about “proportional representation” and “wealth redistribution”, these statements betray a hidden agenda of the Congress to foment dissatisfaction, distrust and dismemberment. It is baring...
