Opinion - Letters to the Editor

Rule of law

This is with reference to the article “For a resurrection of the rule of law”(October 11) by V.R.Krishna Iyer. The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal is too serious a matter to be left to the UPA government. The people never expected that their democratically elected Prime Minister would do anything which goes against the pulse of Parliament. The dubious proposition that the executive has absolute power to sign treaties without Parliament’s sanction or supervision also needs to be reformed in the larger context of “resurrection of the rule of law.”

Seshagiri Row Karry,

Hyderabad

I strongly disagree with what Krishna Iyer had to say regarding India’s current state of affairs. In fact, the country had never fared better on all fronts as it is doing now. As for his consideration for Gandhiji’s swaraj, it cannot obviously belong in the modern times. The non-alignment policy holds true more now than ever before as we have cordial relations with both the U.S. and Russia, while our earlier alignment was clearly pro-Russian. The new economic reforms envisaged by Manmohan Singh were open enough to make gains from globalisation and conservative enough to sustain growth despite the fall of the global economy.

Sneha Rao,

Roorkee

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