• This refers to ‘Maha to Mumbai’. The editorial correctly points towards urbanisation and underdevelopment as issues, but one must also pay equal attention to governance.

Further if the SS-BJP try to play the Hindutva card they risk being marginalised. A glaring feature of the outcome of the elections is the rise of the MNS factor which filled up the vacuum creating by the withering opposition party.

— Shishir Sindekar

Nasik

Look inwards

• Given that this is the second successive defeat at the ballot in the span of a mere six months, it would be wise for the Shiv Sena chief to introspect. He should go to the root cause of the problem that compelled four of the stalwarts of the organisation to leave the party, either to join the rival camp or form a separate outfit of their own.

— Arun Malankar

Mumbai

Be scared

• This refers to ‘Bomber strikes Pak air base’. The frequency of bomb blasts in Pakistan is alarming. Further, their proximity to the nuclear sites raises critical questions over the safety and security of the nuclear arsenal. Now it appears as though US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has become apprehensive despite assurances from Pakistan. One questions President Zardari’s assertion that the WMDs are beyond the reach of terrorists.

— Deepak Chikramane

Mumbai

Total surrender

• What appears to be a deal with the Maoists to secure the release of a police officer has made for astonishing news. Citing the Rubaiya incident does not justify matters. And two wrongs do not make a right. Such actions by the West Bengal government may be costly for the state itself.

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