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In Politics, Everyone Loves a Pandemic -Satya Mohanty

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'Disaster management' has become the new vehicle for suspending the fundamental rights of the people and there is a danger that this may become the new normal even after the coronavirus threat has subsided.

When the debate last week should have been over how quickly the lockdown can be lifted, several chief ministers, including KCR of Telangana has  – which has had a modest number of positive cases and deaths – demanded its continuation. Replying to a query on whether the lockdown would be continued, the I&B minister said a few days ago that the though the domestic numbers seemed far more manageable, the government was watching the world.  Sanjay Reddy’s description on March 31 that society has been forced into “a purgatory between anarchy and totalitarianism” seemed a total exaggeration then but looks somewhat prescient now.

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