Op-eds here, written by politicians freely, without any censorial gaze, tend to be in sync with the party line. People here join a party because their opinions absolutely align - unless your name is Mani Shankar Aiyar or Subramanian Swamy. One can be sure that if there are any departures here from said official line, they are read with the kind of sanguine equanimity that readers of op-eds in a mature democracy are equipped with.
