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Shekhar Gupta: Missing in opposition

We can complain about undermining of institutions, misuse of agencies, discriminatory laws, use of sedition, rail-roading of legislation. But, on all key issues, Congress is MIA

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Shekhar Gupta New Delhi
Much debate this week has been over whether journalists can risk saying something the Modi government doesn’t like. Media has obviously risen so high in the government’s threat perceptions that even in the second half of June that a group of nine important ministers (GoM) was holding a flurry of meetings on how to counter this terrible menace.

This is exactly when the Galwan clash (June 15) had created a war-like situation with China, tens of thousands of migrants were walking back home and India’s coronavirus graph was going up, like a hockey stick.

If you read the ‘leaked’ document that is
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