India Wants The World To Fix Its Institutions While Fighting Over One Of Its Own
India's Leader of the Opposition climbed a police barricade on Parliament Street on Tuesday with the national flag in hand and got a hundred metres near the Election Commission but he could not reach it. What happened in those hundred metres and what is happening now will be read one way in Delhi and quite another abroad Representational Image Via: INCIndia Let us discuss the facts first. Opposition MPs gathered at Makar Dwar, a gate of India's Parliament House, and set off for Nirvachan Sadan, a walk of roughly a kilometre. Rahul Gandhi later said more than 300 members of both Houses had joined while some from the other side refuted the figure. Security personnel stopped them in front of the NITI Aayog building. Police said no permission had been given. Barricades went up, buses were already waiting when detentions began. Among those taken away, reportedly, were Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O'Brien of the Trinamool Congress and the C...