The bizarre hounding of former vice-president Hamid Ansari

The Congress party kept strategically quiet on the arrest of Teesta Setalvad. After its initial reaction, it seems the party now does not want to get too involved in defending Ansari, either

The smear campaign against former vice-president Hamid Ansari again demonstrates how Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can cross every propriety to influence public discourse. Two back-to-back press conferences, amplified by social media and an article by the party spokesperson in a national newspaper make the outlandish claim that the former vice-president was in touch with an agent of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The charges are based on the claims of a Pakistani journalist who enjoys little credibility in his own country. He has now recanted, saying that he neither met the former vice-president privately nor was he invited to