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Daily Financial Times
Daily Financial Times
Recently, in a rare diplomatic row between India and Singapore, the former lodged a strong protest over comments made by Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that almost half of the lawmakers in the Lok Sabha, or the Indian Parliament, have criminal charges pending against them, that suggested a decline in the country’s democratic polity from what he said used to be, ‘Nehru’s India’. The ruling Baratiya Janatha Party (BJP) government took umbrage at the statement and summoned the Singaporean High Commissioner in New Delhi to the Ministry of External Affairs to lodge a formal complaint. P…