Bengaluru, Sept. 24 -- The sharpest barb in Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's Patna address was not about price rise or unemployment, nor even about vote chori. It was the charge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had bartered away India's sovereignty, by remaining mute when former US President Donald Trump boasted of having intervened in Kashmir.
"This is not diplomacy," Siddaramaiah wrote on X. "This is compromise with our sovereignty." Once India's foreign policy commanded respect; today, he said, it had shrunk into silence and subservience, turning allies into adversaries and emboldening enemies. Jobs, trade, friendships, all were casualties of this shrinking stature.
From that opening, he built a broader indictment. Modi, he arg...