Central security for BJP MLAs in Bengal is bad politics https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/central-security-for-bjp-mlas-in-bengal-is-bad-politics-7315445/   Julio Rebeiro: Either the Centre distrusts the state government’s desire or its ability, probably the former, to protect its political opponents or it has decided to keep the pot of electoral animosity boiling in preparation for a takeover. Both propositions are dangerously adversarial, the likes of which had not come to my notice ever before... To teach Banerjee a lesson for daring to halt the BJP’s planned juggernaut, the Ministry of Home Affairs is prepared to forfeit the unspoken camaraderie and brotherhood between different police formations in the country. And along with the loss of brotherhood will go the edifice of a “modus vivendi” that successive governments have built since Independence...By introducing a new concept of Centre-state relations based on distrust and mistaken superiority, Home Minister Amit Shah is literally “cutting his nose to spite his face”.