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India's disasters, Modi's failures and the threat of total dictatorship

India is going through disasters, one after another, without any recovery under the leadership of Modi's BJP regime. The disasters are of many kinds - Economic depression that began even before the pandemic induced slowdown. The pandemic public health crisis itself which has created tremendous humanitarian tragedy in the country. The defense & foreign policy crisis with China & other countries. And underlying everything is the collapse of middle class, massive rise in poverty and sharp decline in living standards of people. The Modi Govt exercised power disregarding constitution, norms, legality and political traditions. It was 'my way or the highway' style of governance. It crushed political opposition, overthrew State Governments of opposition political parties, fired critical civil servants, jailed opposition politicians, independent journalists, activists, students etc. Modi Govt was practically an elected dictatorship. Underlying Modi's dictatorship, there

Modi walks back from Covid-19 vaccine policy blunders

In my last article , i wrote about the situation with India's Covid-19 vaccine policy and national vaccination program and how Modi Govt has thrown it into chaos & paralysis. The "Liberalized" vaccine policy announced by the Govt in April was unconstitutional but most importantly it was a highly destructive to our vaccination program.   Yesterday, the sun rose from the west, the Earth started spinning in opposite direction and Modi walked back from his policy mistake. On 5 PM, Modi came on national TV and announced critical changes to Govt vaccine policy. The central Govt had earlier put major responsibilities of vaccine procurement on States and made them to bear financial burden. Now Modi is repealing this policy and Central Govt will procure 75% of all national vaccine production on its own finances, and distribute vaccine to states. Earlier, Govt policy was giving free vaccination to 45 years and above age population at central Govt vaccination centers while vacci