ThePrint Opinion Mailer  | Saturday 26 November 2022 | In My Opinion By Rama Lakshmi, Opinion and Features Editor |  | |
| The Pakistan Army has a new chief, General Asim Munir. But here’s an enduring legacy. For Pakistan’s Generals, love of their motherland comes second to love of their own land. The outgoing army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa is no different, wrote Praveen Swami. He and his family had amassed assets—mainly urban lands—worth $56 million during his six-year term.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s techno-utopia-driven national security state needs a particular kind of bureaucrats. The 20th Party Congress now has 40 percent ‘technocrats’ as full members of the CCP. Aadil Brar wrote about the new Technocrat Raj in China.
The Draft Digital Data Protection Bill has left several aspects that the government would prescribe later. It is silent on the details. And this isn’t the first time, wrote Renuka Sane. Aadhaar and the Companies Act also left substantial parts of the statute to be filled by the Rules later. This new trend shows the role of Parliament in drafting laws is diminishing.
Today is Constitution Day. So what exactly does it signify? Sudhir Krishnaswamy wrote that the Constitution Day should be turned into our national commitment to achieve a ‘rule of law’ society.
The BJP is employing innovative ways to make inroads into Tamil Nadu politics and breach the Dravida monopoly. The recent celebration of historic Tamil cultural exchanges with Varanasi is a case in point. R. Rajagopalan wrote that this is making DMK nervous.
Filling all vacancies in the Armed Forces Tribunal should help reduce the number of pending cases to some extent. But it will be undertaken in the shadow of the larger tussle between the judiciary and the executive, wrote Lt Gen Prakash Menon (retd). And that could, once again, hold up the next round of the selection process.
A new crisis point is developing between India and Nepal over who can lay true claim to the Buddhist heritage. This time over the Devdaha and Ramgram sites, believed to be Buddha’s maternal home and stupa. Both Nepal and Uttar Pradesh’s Maharajganj district want to excavate and develop the two sites, wrote Shikha Salaria.
| | | | Even as Pakistan has slowly descended into an economic crisis, military officers have given taxpayer-funded land allocations worth millions of dollars. Read more... | | | | | | | Xi is looking towards the promoted technocrats to achieve his home-spurred scientific innovation goal and ensure they can’t challenge him at the next Party Congress. Read more... | | | | | | | The Digital Data Protection Bill is silent on details. The burden of making legislation has shifted from our elected representatives to unelected officials in the bureaucracy. Read more... | | | | | | | Rule of law has few advocates in India. Our overall score in the 8 factor Index is 0.5 out of 1.0. We score lowest in preventing corruption, and for the related weaknesses in our civil and criminal justice systems. Read more... | | | | | | | BJP adopts different approaches for different states. Bulldozer in UP, ED raids in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal. For Tamil Nadu, it is looking at Tamil culture. Read more... | | | | | | | The larger tussle between the judiciary and Parliament could hold up the next round of the selection process unless they are able to find an equilibrium. Read more... | | | | By Lt General Prakash Menon (retd) | | | | | UP's Maharajganj has asked to excavate the two sites, which it believes to be Buddha's maternal home and Stupa. Meanwhile, Nepal is also carrying out excavations in its Ramgram. Read more... | | | | | | | | | Read more of ThePrintOpinion here. You are receiving this because you are a reader of ThePrint and posted a comment or signed up to receive this newsletter. We appreciate your feedback. | | | | |
