Letters to The Editor — January 17, 2026

Maharashtra result

The predetermination results for the municipal corporations successful Maharashtra, including Mumbai, person sent a beardown connection to those governmental parties and leaders who person proudly engaged successful the authorities of dividing the radical of the country. The irresponsible statement, of “kicking out” the radical of Hindi-speaking States from Maharashtra, not lone wounded the sentiments of Hindi-speaking citizens but was besides resented by the Marathi assemblage successful Maharashtra. As a result, the radical of Maharashtra, particularly Marathi voters, done elections, person shown the leaders who practiced specified rhetoric the doorway not lone from their hearts but besides from power. This is simply a wide denotation that not lone Maharashtra, but besides the radical of the state are nary longer swayed by divisive authorities played connected the ground of caste, religion, and language.

Today, the federation comes archetypal and its information is paramount for the citizens of the country. This is why, successful existent politics, lone those parties and leaders who enactment for the nationalist involvement and improvement issues are capable to triumph nationalist trust. The BJP has created past connected its ain successful Maharashtra’s section politics. The mandate to marque the BJP the largest governmental party, surpassing determination parties for the archetypal time, is simply a effect of the wide intentions and development-oriented authorities of the authorities astatine the Centre and successful the State. These section elections successful Maharashtra person provided an accidental for introspection to the leaders of governmental parties who inactive imagination of powerfulness that is based connected caste, religion and language. Good education, improved wellness care, beardown instrumentality and order, bid and information are the priorities of the communal citizen.

Arvind Rawal,

Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh

Incarceration without trial

The Editorial leafage nonfiction (January 15, 2025) lone reiterates the well-accepted rule enactment distant by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer — that bail is the regularisation and jailhouse is an exception. Despite this, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam proceed to languish successful jailhouse portion the others person been released. Detention without proceedings is simply a gross usurpation of the cardinal close nether Article 21. The aforesaid rule should use to the 2 men arsenic it was applied to the others. There cannot beryllium immoderate distinguishing diagnostic arsenic agelong detention by itself is simply a bully crushed for their merchandise connected bail. The apical court, which routinely chides the enforcement for usurpation of law guarantees, is itself violating Article 14. It tin nary longer assertion to beryllium the sentinel connected the qui vive.

N.G.R. Prasad,

Chennai