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19/11/2016.        869.                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : Indira mistakes cost India dearly Ref : The most pernicious legacy left behind by Indira Gandhi is the lumpenisation and criminalisation of politics. PART-2. 1. Indira mistakes cost India dearly 2. The most pernicious legacy left behind by Indira Gandhi is the lumpenisation and criminalisation of politics. 3. The debits she left behind started the destructive process in our polity. 4. It was her manipulations of democracy that started its downward descent, a process that has expanded exponentially and diversified in every conceivable direction with the passage of decades. 5. Thanks to the seeds sowed by her, we can, today, boast of being one of the most degraded and rogue democracies of the world. 6. She won her elections to Parliament by gross violatio...

The IPS Probationers  2015 batch call on the Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on 17.11.2016. 19/11/2016.        868.                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : In Indira’s India Ref : She disliked plurality of politics and policy, and preferred centralisation. We continue to pay the price Media reports- The Indian Express Written by Suhas Palshikar| Updated: November 19, 2016 12:06 am The writer taught political science at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune and is chief editor of the journal, ‘Studies in Indian Politics’ Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi. (File) PART-1 1. Remembering Indira Gandhi in her birth centenary year is necessary for more than sentimental or partisan reasons.  She  gave a complacent polity a taste of the authoritarianism that could easily eclipse democrac...