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Whose welfare? EDITORIAL NEWS Share on facebook Share on blogger Share on linkedin Share on twitter More Sharing Services 10 Whose welfare? June 25, 2012 09:48 AM By Deepak Parvatiyar Look at the three major developments last week: • The economy on the verge of stagflation, i.e. simultaneous high inflation and low growth at a time when major international rating agencies have downgraded our economy. Similarly, “Secular” is another term that is not explained in the Constitution and can be “used as an instrument of unrestrained communalism or bigotry or even anti-religionism, as distinguished from ‘equal respect for all religions’” • Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar’s assertion that his Gujarat counterpart and prominent BJP leader Narendra Modi is not “secular”. (Though, this is not the first time the Nitish has raised hackles with Modi in spite of the fact that Janata Dal (United) and the BJP are coalition partners in the Nati