Letters: Ominous sign

In running Haryana, the BJP has not only been ineffective in upholding law and order

The abdication of responsibility by the Haryana government in Panchkula where supporters of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim went on a rampage torching vehicles and causing unrest after he was convicted of rape was even more complete than when the government failed to quell the Jat agitation earlier.
 
A prescient high court had already warned the lax government to meet eventualities with firmness. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in coalition with the People’s Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir, was at least making noises over the continued state of unrest there.
 
In running Haryana, the BJP