With India accounting for over 98% of Nepal’s petroleum imports and over 60% of its total trade, why do diplomatic strains between the two nations continue to persist?
Review - DEKHO
Is economic interdependence failing to translate into strategic trust?
Bhagwant Mann’s Government is presenting its crackdown on gangsters as a major law-and-order achievement, citing busted modules, arrests and overseas extraditions. Yet the reported entry of gangster-turned-politician Gurpreet Singh Sekhon into the Aam Aadmi Party, followed by his public welcome by Mann, creates a political contradiction that could become difficult to ignore before 2027. Can the party convince voters that its anti-gangster campaign is more than enforcement headlines when a figure linked to Punjab’s criminal-political ecosystem is also being given political space ?
भगवंत मान सरकार गैंगस्टरों के खिलाफ अपनी कार्रवाई को कानून-व्यवस्था की बड़ी उपलब्धि के तौर पर पेश कर रही है, जिसमें गैंग मॉड्यूल का भंडाफोड़, गिरफ्तारियां और विदेशों से अपराधियों को वापस लाना शामिल है। लेकिन गैंगस्टर से नेता बने गुरप्रीत सिंह सेखों के आम आदमी पार्टी में शामिल होने और भगवंत मान द्वारा उनका सार्वजनिक स्वागत किए जाने की खबर ने 2027 से पहले एक बड़ा राजनीतिक सवाल खड़ा कर दिया है। जब आपराधिक-सियासी नेटवर्क से जुड़े व्यक्ति को राजनीतिक जगह मिलती दिखे, तो क्या पार्टी लोगों को यकीन दिला पाएगी कि गैंगस्टरों के खिलाफ उसकी मुहिम सिर्फ सुर्खियों तक सीमित नहीं है ?
AAP MLA Rajinder Pal Kaur Chhina is facing criticism after a viral video allegedly showed her confronting and slapping a truck driver in Ludhiana. The episode has also brought renewed attention to earlier controversies surrounding her, including the 2022 dispute involving an IPS officer over anti-drug searches and the 2024 allegation that she was offered ₹5 Crores to switch from AAP to BJP. While these are separate episodes, taken together they raise a larger political question: Is the conduct of AAP’s MLAs becoming a growing credibility challenge for a party that built its politics around the “common man” ?
