From the Urdu Press: ‘INDIA bloc defeat after defeat… it needs to learn the lessons’, ‘Is Adani above Indian law?’

In Jharkhand, the editorial says, the JMM-led alliance’s bid spearheaded by Chief Minister Hemant Soren proved successful, starring to the INDIA bloc retaining powerfulness successful the tribal state. “The BJP’s decision successful Jharkhand is notable, fixed its shrill, polarising run with its full apical brass raking up issues similar infiltrators to inflame the voters’ sentiments. They openly played the Hindu-Muslim card, targeting the number community,” the edit says. “The radical of the state, however, rebuffed their antagonistic authorities and run decisively. Their votes marked a affirmative mandate. It enhances the work of the Soren authorities 2.0, which should permission nary chromatic unturned successful fulfilling the nationalist expectations with renewed vigour and determination.”

URDU TIMES

Highlighting the Maharashtra predetermination results, the Mumbai-based Urdu Times, successful its person connected November 24, writes that the incumbent BJP-led Mahayuti pulled disconnected an “incredible feat” by sweeping the polls. “This triumph has stunned everyone, including politicians and experts. No one, not adjacent immoderate exit poll, had anticipated specified a expansive triumph for the ruing coalition. There is 1 cardinal crushed down this outcome: the BJP’s mastery implicit warring elections. For, much than anything, the BJP remains a formidable canvass machine,” it says, adding that the enactment again proved it successful the Maharashtra polls.

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, with his lawman CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar aft addressing a property league station Assembly predetermination results. (Express photograph by Sankhadeep Banerjee)

The regular states that portion different parties commencement preparing for the hustings lone successful canvass season, the BJP ever remains successful predetermination mode. “A fiscal assistance strategy for women, similar the Ladki Bahin Yojana, is besides being implemented successful respective Opposition-ruled states. But the mode successful which the BJP showcased this strategy passim Maharashtra, down to the booth level, it was unprecedented,” the editorial says. “Using its heavy link with media for the purpose, the BJP besides reached retired to those sections who whitethorn not beryllium portion of its halfway base,” it says adding that connected the different hand, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) struggled successful taking its connection to its ain supporters.

From its debacle successful the April-June Lok Sabha polls to storming backmost to power, the deciding origin for the Mahayuti has proved to beryllium the Ladki Bahin scheme, the edit notes. “The BJP could publication this triumph riding connected not conscionable its Hindutva plank, but besides due to the fact that of the Mahayuti government’s payment schemes.”

These elections person “drastically changed” the authorities of Maharashtra, the edit says. “Sharad Pawar had been a pivot of authorities authorities for decades. But Ajit Pawar has present turned the tables connected him. Despite being successful an confederation with the BJP, Ajit distanced himself from Yogi Adityanath’s “Batenge toh katenge” slogan, making it wide that specified a transportation was unacceptable successful Maharashtra,” it states. “There would beryllium uncertainty implicit Uddhav Thackeray’s governmental aboriginal now. And the BJP has achieved specified a ascendant presumption successful Maharashtra, it would beryllium wrong a striking region of realising its imagination of coming to powerfulness connected its ain steam from here.”

ROZNAMA RASHTRIYA SAHARA

Flagging the indictment of Gautam Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani and six others by US prosecutors for allegedly offering bribes of astir Rs 2,029 crore to Indian authorities officials, successful bid to unafraid “lucrative star vigor proviso contracts” with authorities discoms, the New Delhi variation of Roznama Rashtriya Sahara, successful its editorial connected November 22, says that the Adani Group is facing superior allegations of motivation turpitude which person a bearing connected political, economical and organization aspects of the polity. Noting that the Adani Group has rejected specified accusations arsenic baseless, the editorial says that the enactment raises questions astir the morals of its firm governance arsenic good arsenic the deficiency of probity successful planetary businesses.

“The question is, if determination is immoderate substance successful specified allegations, wherefore is the Adani Group not facing immoderate probe successful our country? Is its power truthful overwhelming that it could evade the law? The answers to these questions would radiance airy connected the quality of relations betwixt the authorities and corporates,” the regular writes. It points retired that Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly accused the Modi authorities of shielding the Adani Group. “Any bid to indulge successful crony capitalism would undermine the regularisation of law.”

The editorial says immoderate different questions arising retired of the indictment pertain to the independency and integrity of Indian institutions. “If American agencies are probing the Adani Group successful alleged bribery and fraud cases, wherefore tin India’s regulators and law-enforcement agencies specified arsenic the SEBI oregon CBI not bash the same? If these institutions are not autarkic capable to fulfil their mandates objectively, past it dents nationalist assurance successful them, to the detriment of the broader economy,” the edit states. “This contented should not beryllium confined to conscionable 1 group. It could beryllium an accidental to analyse intimately the larger governmental and economical systems and use correctives successful bid to marque our institutions much robust and transparent.”