According to the data released for the year 2023-2024, India has exported goods worth 16 billion U.S. dollars to China and imported goods worth 101 billion U.S. dollars, resulting in a trade deficit of 85 billion U.S. dollars with China. At the same time, discussions regarding Indo-China relations are taking place with great intensity.
Bhagwant Mann is once again reviving one of Punjab’s most emotionally powerful political memories by warning voters that the BJP could bring back farm law style policies if voted to power in the state. By linking current politics to the massive farmers’ protest that shook Punjab and the country just a few years ago, Mann appears to be playing a deeply emotional and strategic political card ahead of 2027. As BJP tries to expand its footprint in Punjab, is Bhagwant Mann smartly using the memory of the farm laws to consolidate rural support once again, or does repeatedly returning to old fears risk making Punjab politics permanently trapped in protest-era narratives ?
भगवंत मान एक बार फिर पंजाब की सबसे भावनात्मक राजनीतिक यादों में से एक, कृषि कानून आंदोलन, को सामने लाकर भाजपा पर निशाना साध रहे हैं। किसानों के बड़े आंदोलन की याद दिलाते हुए मान यह संदेश देने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं कि अगर भाजपा को पंजाब में मौका मिला तो वैसी नीतियाँ फिर लौट सकती हैं। 2027 चुनावों से पहले क्या भगवंत मान किसानों और ग्रामीण वोटरों को फिर से एकजुट करने के लिए सही राजनीतिक दांव खेल रहे हैं, या बार-बार पुराने डर और आंदोलनों को उठाने से पंजाब की राजनीति भविष्य की बजाय हमेशा अतीत की लड़ाइयों में ही फंसी रहेगी ?
Arvind Kejriwal’s praise for Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora, claiming he “chose jail over joining BJP”, has turned a corruption investigation into a larger political loyalty narrative. While AAP is projecting Arora as a leader refusing to “compromise under pressure,” opposition parties argue the statement itself politicises investigative agencies and shifts focus away from the actual allegations. As arrests, raids, and defections increasingly dominate Indian politics, are legal investigations now becoming tests of political loyalty and narrative warfare rather than just matters of law ?