Stalin Takes on Adityanath's 'Riot-for-Vote-Politics'; Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha Chairs Make Partisan Rulings; Assam Reporter Rearrested After Getting Bail

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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

March 27, 2025

Siddharth Varadarajan

It’s rare for Chief Ministers to attack each other but this war was started by Yogi Adityanath. Responding to the Uttar Pradesh CM’s barb that the Tamilnadu CM’s stand against the Union government’s Hindi-centric ‘three-language formula’ was driven by hate and vote-bank politics, MK Stalin didn’t mince his words:

And now Hon’ble Yogi Adityanath wants to lecture us on hate? Spare us.

This isn’t irony—it’s political black comedy at its darkest.

We don’t oppose any language; we oppose imposition and chauvinism.

This isn’t riot-for-votes politics. This is a battle for dignity and justice.

Preparations are underway for Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit India later this year, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said in Moscow today. “It is symbolic that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first bilateral foreign visit after his re-election last year to Russia,” he said. “Now, it is our turn. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted the invitation from the Indian government. Preparations are underway for the visit of the Russian head of state to India.”

If India was earlier unsure how this visit would play diplomatically, US President Donald Trump’s pro-Putin turn has smoothed the way.

In a shocking display of political manoeuvring, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar today rejected Congress MP Jairam Ramesh’s notice of privilege against Home Minister Amit Shah for making “unfounded allegations against Sonia Gandhi with a premeditated move to malign her reputation.”

“A family controlled the fund when Congress was in power. The Congress president was a member of this committee. Congress president was part of a government fund. What answer will we give to people? They think nobody reads, nobody notices it,” Shah had said in parliament in an effort to argue