Column : The Battle Within The Congress
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 1,
January 2011
Indeed, environment minister Jairam Ramesh's newfound conciliatory stance towards projects such as Lavasa and mining at Niyamgiri only represents a temporary thaw in the larger ideological struggle within the Congress party. The contours of this larger battle of ideas will become clearer after a more substantial Cabinet reshuffle takes place.
It was hardly lost on anyone that Jairam chose to meet the head of the Vedanta group, Anil Agarwal, only two days before the Cabinet reshuffle was to happen. Later, he also met the promoters of the controversial Lavasa city development project and gave some assurances that the project could continue if some conditions were met. Read the full report here.
Source: by M.K. Venu, Financial Express.
