Far from embodying some new paradigm of far-sighted governance, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister has often revealed himself as a typical politician, with all the associated venality, duplicity and opportunism.
While the government’s decision to accord ST status to Pahari-speaking people turned public sentiment in the BJP’s favour in Poonch and Rajouri, there was widespread dissatisfaction with the party in its traditional stronghold.
The land suffers, the groundwater is contaminated. As the crisis deepens, consumers across the world sense its faintest tremors whenever they pick up a bar of chocolate and find the price has increased.