NIC meeting was a stilted conversation

It may have come as little surprise how swiftly the meeting of the National Integration Council became a staging ground for partisan politics, glib sloganeering and facile framing of problems. Chief ministers of states like Gujarat, Orissa, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu kept away. Chandrababu Naidu used the occasion to insinuate his political agenda, and walk out over the decision to grant statehood to Telangana. In a free-for-all episode of name-calling, others...

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