Why Balakot should be kept out of elections

If it brings electoral success, it will encourage further adventurism and divert attention from issues of substance

It will be bizarre and disappointing if the election ahead is swung on the basis of events on the Pakistan front, especially the Balakot attack.

Not disappointing because a particular party will win or lose, because that is not my concern. It doesn’t really make that much of a difference to the grand scheme of things what party runs the Centre in India. It is true that there are a few things the current government has deliberately introduced that have harmed us that could have been avoided. But a foreigner looking at us from the outside would not notice that much