Double Engine Sarkar in Manipur Plumbs New Depths on Security Front; Surat Diamonds Aren't Forever; Operation Lotus Targets Himachal
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February 28, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
Operation Lotus is blooming again, this time in Himachal Pradesh, where the Bharatiya Janata Party has managed to poach enough MLAs to threaten the Congress government in the state. Yesterday, the BJP managed to defeat Abhishek Singhvi in the contest for a Rajya Sabha seat and today its leaders met with the governor claiming that the Congress was planning to prevent them from moving a cut motion on the budget – which might lead to the defeat of the government. Vikramjit Singh, son of the late Virbhadra Singh, has resigned from the state cabinet. He and his mother resented the fact that the chief ministership went not to them but to
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