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The Big Story: Sliding doors
India has now registered more than 1 million total Covid-19 cases, even though authorities still claim there is no community transmission in the country. But the massive struggle involved in handling a pandemic, a migrant crisis and a resultant economic crash has not stopped Indian politicians from playing power games.
Over the course of the pandemic, we’ve seen a change of guard in Madhya Pradesh (Congress government toppled by the Bharatiya Janata Party), turmoil in Maharashtra (BJP trying to unsettle the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress coalition), frantic negotiation in Manipur (Congress attempting to displace the BJP-led coalition) and now Rajasthan.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot last week removed Sachin Pilot as deputy chief minister after first accusing the BJP of trying to poach Members of Legislative Assembly from his campaign and then having the Rajasthan Police send a summons to his deputy as a part of the investigation into this alleged conspiracy.
Read our explainer on how things first unfolded last week here. We also covered the...
