Siddharth Varadarajan analyses home minister Amit Shah’s Rajya Sabha speech and explains why the BJP’s failure to conduct assembly elections in the state is a big deal.
Note: This video was first published on July 4, 2019 and republished on August 5, 2019.
In the fourth episode of ‘Beyond The Headlines’, Siddharth Varadarajan sharply analyses home minister Amit Shah’s Rajya Sabha speech and explains why the BJP’s failure to conduct assembly elections in the state is a big deal.
He describes how the saffron party breached its commitments under the ‘Agenda of Alliance’ that was signed between the PDP and the BJP. He says that the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A is only going to worsen the situation in Kashmir.
Author: Siddharth Varadarajan
Siddharth Varadarajan is a Founding Editor of The Wire. He was earlier the Editor of The Hindu and is a recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award and the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year. He taught Economics at New York University and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, besides working at the Times of India.
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