Articles by S P Shukla

The Vision Document of the Aam Aadmi Party offers a simplistic understanding of the issues confronting Indian society, and confuses and confl ates symptoms with the disease.

The past year has been one of turbulence for both the major political coalitions - the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. While signs point to the Congress' further diminishing as a force and the BJP's return to an assertive majoritarian agenda, there remain possibilities for the formation of a new radical and non-sectarian alternative to emerge in the political landscape.

The call of our times is the call for a radical and inclusive political platform which alone will confront and defeat the combined assault on the vision of the modern Indian polity that has been launched by the mainstream political parties. A failure to respond to this call will spell not only the beginning of the end of pro-people, progressive politics in the medium term, but also a paralysis of the process of democratisation, which has implications far more important than the electoral future of political parties.

We, the undersigned call upon the UPA government not to be in a hurry to implement the Indo-US Bilateral Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. A majority in the Indian Parliament is opposed to this “deal”.

of National Economy S P Shukla THE major task facing us in the economic sphere is to make a determined and concerted bid to restore a measure of autonomy in the management of the national economy. The short interval of the UF rule at the centre has not been able to make significant departures in this direction. There are three important features of the process of the so- called globalisation which need to be highlighted in this connection. Each one of them will have to be countered and resisted, both at the level of the government as well as that of the people, if we wish to restore and preserve our autonomy in economic management.