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Well, so many people have made an answer to this question.Well, this matter is currently a key political topic in Kerala and definitely has more political dimensions than key disaster management/relief management issue.I see lot of responses of Non Malayalees/Non Keralites here is focused on a National policy formulated by UPA Government under Dr.Manmohan Singh.And its perfectly true, since 2004, GOVT OF INDIA is denying all foreign assistance in times of distress. It same during Uttarakhand floods or Chennai Floods or J&K Floods or Gujarat Floods etc.But why its a huge issue today?Simple- POLITICAL ENLIGHTENMENT.Kerala society is not like Gujarat or Uttarakhand or J&K or Bihar or Assam. The society is highly political conscious society and there is a strong political awareness and enlightenment in the society. Across India, such high degree of political awareness, one may find only within upper middle class mostly limited to urban environments. Even in major cities like Mumbai or Delhi, you are likely to see the lower strata of society almost ignorant of many political rights and political contexts. Thats why we often use the term- Luyten’s Delhi to denote the elite segment of political conscious society comprising of creamy level of Delhi’s society which you may not find in other places, say Old Delhi.Imagine if you have an entire state with a population having traits similar to that elite crowd of Luyten’s Delhi? Thats exactly whats happening in Kerala and why this debate has fired discussions in all segments of society.I have personally been in Chennai during its floods. Post floods, no one has time even to discuss or talk politics of TN too. I have heard many murmurs, mostly from upper echelons of society, how poorly AMMA (Jayalalitha) handled the situation. But I am pretty sure, rarely such comments ever came so openly in social media or even discussed by common man. It was too much restricted among small section of upper class society in their private circles. But this kind of comments or discussions were mostly unheard from much of its lower and middle class as they were not much into a political spectrum. Rather they all were worrying on rebuilding their lives back to scratch. The political consciousness is comparatively at lower end to discuss such things.This is not the same in Kerala. I was in camps for last one week, handling various relief operations. I came back to home only yesterday as was running our own coordination and control units. In my visits to various camps, I have seen many people who lost everything, still discussing why Govt of India not accepting UAE Aid. They were questioning, whats the big deal in accepting it? Many of them were in opinion that our Indian governments couldn’t give interest moratorium or price support on time, why then they blocking International Aid?If you talk national policy to them, they won’t accept that. Infact I have seen some people highlighting this policy in social media. And within next moments, someone dug out the 2016 policy which Modi government brought upI was pretty sure, prior to this floods, no one in Kerala had any clue that Modi Govt unveiled a new Disaster Management policy in 2016. But the super charged Malayali immediately dug this policy out from net, to counter the argument made by BJP and Govt of India. And its logical too.And the most popular social comments in Kerala is that, “Aren’t the laws made by Human? Can’t we change it?” … Equally we all heard this comment “If you are following Manmohan Singh Policy, why then you keep on bashing Congress and UPA then?” as a reply to Modi Govt’s insistence to follow 2004 Policy.Definitely the society carries a degree of political bias, no doubt. But that bias comes from adhering to politics of a nation/state. No one with awareness about his society can be apolitical. And Kerala is definitely a Left Leaning state (don’t assume Left as Communism), naturally the politics of right will not have much social acceptance. It will be always seen with a degree of suspicion. And the actions of NDA government reinforces that degree of suspicion.I am not blaming NDA government for any INACTION. They are doing everything as per usual/standard procedure related to a disaster.But majority of us are not expecting a standard response, rather an extraordinary response. In Kerala everyone expects India government to react with an extraordinary sense of urgency. We are not going to appreciate the standard measures as per rule-book. Thats anyway normal and something constitutionally obliged.And this is where the comparison with UAE government’s response comes in.No one in Kerala expected UAE Govt or any foreign govt to step into this crisis. But the moment the news of this crisis came out, UAE Government took an extraordinary step. They called an extraordinary cabinet meeting, got Presidential Assent to set up an National Emergency Committee in UAE to assist Kerala and their rulers openly expressed their support within a day after the disaster struck.On contrary India Govt established the National Mointoring committee chaired by Cabinet Secretary only on the 3rd day after the disaster.Within a day, UAE Central Bank issued notification that all remittances to Kerala CM Disaster Relief Fund will have a waiver from usual VAT. All financial agencies and banks in UAE were permitted to waive their fees, making it absolutely tax/charge free to remit to Relief fund. UAE Government even made a full page paper advertisement in all major newspapers across UAE seeking national support to Kerala. So as in public spaces, UAE government were broadcasting appeal videos seeking for donations to Kerala. These all were unprecedented approach.UAE Red Crescent seeking Public support for relief funds for KeralaDubai Police Video assuring their support for KeralaOfficial ad of UAE Govt supporting Kerala Relief operations and support of UAE.Within next day, UAE Customs waived all licence fees and export related fees to all cargo companies sending relief materials. On contrary it took nearly 5 days for India to waive its customs duties for importing relief materials which Indians and others were sending from many countries. It required a huge protest and social media outrage, for India’s finance ministry to grant relief. Remember in this time, almost every day Kerala Government was sending mails to Delhi, seeking relief as huge cargo loads were getting accumulated in Trivandrum and Calicut airports as Indian Customs were demanding usual duties as they had no orders for exemption.These all are watched by Malayalee community. Our News media were highlighting all these and hence Malayalee community was feeling there is a lack of urgency from India Government’s side especially when they compare with that with the actions of UAE Government.Naturally Malayalees started comparing how UAE govt pledged its support without any request, while how India govt responded despite of all pleas and requests.In my opinion, Govt of India should have taken that aid. This is because neither Kerala nor India Govt sought aid from any one. No one in Kerala Govt made a formal or informal appeal to any country to assist. But its so heartwarming to see countries like UAE, Qatar, Japan, Thailand, Maldives etc rushing with all sorts of aid.There is one important point to understand. India is definitely a great nation with its own independent foreign policy and superior military might. But India is equally a political union, not an Unitary Nation. While India has its own foreign policies which sometimes may be hostile to other nations, it may not be nessecary that states have same approach. For example, its all know that India-Maldives relationship has reached its lowest level in recent times. So naturally for many Non-Malayalees, they may be surprised seeing Maldives rushing to aid Kerala. The fact many don’t understand is that Maldives and Kerala has a huge historical and socio-cultural relationship which they may not have with other states. A good percentage of Maldivian citizens consider Trivandrum as their second home. Its almost a Maldivian city for many of them as they come to the city for all their medical needs, their education purposes or even for a simple shopping. Much of Indians in Maldives who are involved in teaching, medical services are Malayalees. Naturally the bonding between a Maldivian and Malayalee will be much more than other Indians.This similar cultural bonding of various states with other countries can be seen well. For example, if any disaster happens to Punjab, the first country to respond would be Canada. The cultural bonding between Canada and Punjab is definitely too high, more than than with Delhi or Rajasthan. Same way when Chennai was flooded, it was Malaysia and Singapore who promised all help because of their cultural bonding. We don’t see Malayasia rushing to help to Kerala as our cultural linkages are too low.These linkages plays a key role in all areas and hence the rules must be flexible to booster such cultural linkages.I perfectly find Narendra Modi Government drafted National Disaster Management Policy 2016 much more pragmatic and sensible than Manmohan Singh Policy. We don’t need be in false ego that we have all capacity to help our people in times of need. Even the superpower USA accepted external aid during their worst times like Katrina Cyclones etc. We don’t need to request any nation for aid. But if any nation voluntary comes and offer aid, why should we deny it.Policy as per National Disaster Management Policy of 2016 unveiled by Modi GovtWe can perfectly deny all aid as Inter-Government transfers. There is no need of such inter-government credit which may carry invisible strings for future. Rather why don’t we allow foreign governments to directly contribute to Relief fund as a donation? Why should we deny someone donating for a cause?So my take is, Modi government should have upheld their own policy rather taking Manmohan Singh Policy as they always criticized most of the policies and governance of MMS Govt.Currently this matter is not a relief/disaster management issue. Rather strictly political. And I believe it will affect BJP’s electoral prospects in Kerala so rapidly. Much of my pro-BJP friends as well as sympathizers have expressed their displeasure with govt’s action. Infact I am sure that even BJP Leaders from Kerala realized this problem. Thats why we had Central Tourism Minister- Alphonse Kannanthanam, who normally endorses blindly what Modi says, openly said that he will try his level best for changing the policy of Indian Govt in this. But I feel, BJP National leadership hasn’t understood the pulse correctly and definitely it will have its implications in coming elections.Edit 1So many Quorans made a comment that UAE didn’t offer any amount and it was fake news based on a statement of UAE Ambassador to Indian ExpressKerala floods: UAE says nothing official yet, no amount of financial aid announcedWell, its true that Ambassador made a statement yesterday that AN AMOUNT AS SUCH ISN’T ANNOUNCEDAt the same time, he hasn’t said, UAE didn’t discuss financial aid with Government of India. Infact, his statement was a balancing act as its true that UAE DIDN’T FORMALLY ANNOUNCED AID PUBLICALLY, but informally it was already done with government of India and concerned ministry.Diplomats always value diplomacy. They can’t put the host country’s govt in a crisis because of them. The current matter of aid has become a Political controversy and it has seriously affected Indian government. Naturally no diplomat would add fire to it. Imagine if UAE Ambassador said that UAE offered an aid of $100 million but India govt rejected it. It shall definitely create more rift between MEA-India and MFA-UAE. Because no diplomat is expected to disclose things that discussed informally or behind the curtains. Please note- diplomacy never happens over Twitter or Facebook.At the same time, the news is not fake. Because we have enough sources to understand the authenticity of news. Definitely you can’t expect senior central Minister like Alphonse Kannanthanam or similar requesting to PM to review the concept of foreign aid, based on fake news. Nor so as Foreign Ministry of India won’t be sending letters rejecting foreign aid if there is no proposal at first place.UAE is one country, that harshly prosecutes people for fake news. A simple whatsapp message citing unverified news/fake news could land a person in jail for 10 years. In such a country, do you think, Newspapers would publish such a news as its top headline without being sure about it? If it was a fake news, definitely UAE government would have prosecuted these newspapersHave anyone seen Ministry of External Affairs- India or PMO citing the news as fake? Why? Because they know its true and they can’t say that no such thing has happened.UAE Ambassador has effectively tried to downplay the political controversy of it, by citing the technical part, ie its never announced formally. He never said no such financial aid being offered as the intent of offer was already made to Govt of India. And thats exactly what any true professional Diplomat would do in such a situation.Equally it was unprofessional from CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s part to disclose things privately discussed between 2 heads of the state, though this debate helped to review the concept of foreign aid in times of distress.The fake news analogy was projected by Pro-BJP media like Republic TV or Zee News or similar as well as their cheer sites like Postcard etc as for a week, BJP Kerala Unit was at receiving end. They need a news to ensure BJP Leadership is vindicated from such a situation.Republic TV’s parent channel-Asianet News which have more neutral/independent journalism, has given a news from Dubai that UAE Govt would officially clarify this matter in coming days after the ministry of foreign affairs reopen tomorrow (which was closed due to Eid holidays).

Certainly & Absolutely!Narendra Modi is completely changing the face of Indian politics and all for the right reasons -Indian diplomacy is at its all time high after Modi has come to power. We have improved our ties with several ASEAN nations and also our relations with Middle East and West is improving day by day.India no longer needs to bow down to US hegemony now. We are an emerging superpower and our stance in Global diplomacy has made it clear. For example, many analysts said that India would attract US sanctions if they were to go ahead with the S400 missle defence systems deal with Russia. The US sanctions on nations trading with Russia did not have any effect on India and US had to explicitly introduce a waiver after the India went ahead with the deal without batting an eyelid. [1]India has slowly and steadily exercised its influence in the Maldives, which currently is reeling under a huge Chinese debt. The current opposition leader is a huge supported of India and actively supports Indian interest in the island. This allows us to establish our identity and counter Chinese expansionary interests at the same time. [2]Doklam incident was a huge victory for India. At the outset of Modi’s term, this was a diplomatic win which is laudable. Even though China had encroached upon the plateau, Indian troops were able to hold China off and disengage, leading to peaceful withdrawal, thanks to the diplomatic skills of MEA, Sushma Swaraj. During the UPA rule, China has successfully entered 19 kms inside Indian territory and government waited for the Chinese to withdraw on their own. UPA government did not have the spine to handle a stand off and their meek response only increased the confidence of Chinese troops to camp inside India. But during Modi’s rule, China has a bitter experience and were left embarrassed in front of the whole world when they had to withdraw from Doklam. [3]Despite US sanctions on Iran, India continues to buy Oil from Iran in and yet again, US had to pass waivers of the earlier imposed sanctions. Under the same umbrella of sanctions, India was also allowed to build Chabahar port, to strengthen its interests in West asia and to counter Pakistani and Chinese influence from Gwadar port[4]Fast forward to 2016, Pakistan based Jaish-E-Mohammed attacked URI base and Pathankot base leading to significant casualties. While the country mourned the losses of our soliders, PM Modi and his government decided to strike back and teach Pakistani’s a lesson. Within 16 days, a surgical strike was carried out by India for the 1st time in the history of our nation. We successfully eliminated several terror launch pads across the LoC and proudly claimed our hand in doing so. Pakistan did not have the guts to retaliate as our claims were substantial and validated on the global scale by many countries. Modi could have sat back and given scathing attacks on Pakistan, instead he choose to act and not just speak. He promised for a revenge and he served it ‘hot’ to Pakistan.After this strike, many political parties questioned India’s action and made a ruckus on India’s retaliation. Jokers asked for the videos of the attacks and when Indian army released the footage, they had to shut up and accept the truth.Fast forward again to 2019, on 14th Feb, our CRPF Jawans were martyed in Pulwama. The same day, a revenge was yet again promised. No attackers will be spared, said Modi. On the 13th day since the attacks had taken place, IAF raided Pakistani Terror camps at Balakot and pulverised the camps. 250–300 terrorists, including the mastermind of the dreaded IC 831 Hijacking. Remember that these terroists were responsible for claiming so many precious Indian lives. These terrorists were spared the gun while they attacked the Parliament in 2003. These terrorists had no fear of Indians and were brain washing youth to become fidayeens, but on 26th Feb, when they were moved to Balakot, fearing a land attack by Army, before they could realise, IAF Precision guided munitions bombed them and finished them from the face of this earth.After this strike, all the opposition parties hailed the IAF strikes and none questioned the government’s intent this time. The reason being that the opposition parties now knew that Modi never bluffes and his promises are not hollow. Those who asked for video footage proof were not only quiet but also cancelled their dharna and fast.On the day the Parliament session ended, Mulayam singh yadav, one of the staunch critics of Modi lauded his efforts for taking everyone in his stride during the past 4 years and for focusing on development. A surprise appreciation from the opposition was indeed a proof to the fact that even the Opposition considered Modi to be a great leader for our country.Modi’s popularity wave was go immense that no single opposition party could think of individually taking BJP head on, so they had to all come under a single umbrella of the Mahagathbandhan to counter the rising influence of Modi.All the above points show the after Modi has some serious intent to shift the focus from partisan and caste based politics towards a more inclusive politics where India and Indians are put above everything else. Hos agenda truly has been towards that of development and i am sure that given another term, we will be at the center stage of world politics for all the good reasons.Footnotes[1] Sanctions Waiver Intended To "Wean" India, Others Off Russian Arms: US[2] Mohamed Nasheed: In a sense, we now need to buy back our sovereignty from China[3] Chinese troops 19km inside Indian territory, govt admits - Times of India ►[4] India can buy oil from Iran as US agrees to waiver

Pushed on the back foot over allegations of mishandling of religious protests, the SAD-BJP is banking on nationalism while the Congress aims to take advantage of dissidence in National Democratic Alliance camp.When the Narendra Modi wave swept north India in the 2014 parliamentary elections, Punjab was lukewarm in its response.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partner, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), won six of the 13 seats as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a rookie outfit then, made a stunning debut by securing four seats and breaking the long-standing duopoly in the state.The Congress, which won three seats, made a spectacular comeback three years later in the state elections, winning a two-thirds majority in the assembly and routing the ruling SAD-BJP combine.Like elsewhere in the country, the BJP is attempting to steer the nationalism conversation to its national security record. The ruling Congress is aware of this, and chief minister Amarinder Singh, himself a former soldier, has been nimble-footed in grabbing the headlines by calling for a retaliation, hailing the air strike, and then offering to receive Indian Air Force pilot wing commander Abhinandan Varthaman at the Wagah border on his return from Pakistan. He has kept away from any speculation about the terrorist casualty figure in the Balakot air strike.But equal, if not more, attention has been drawn by his party colleague and minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who first hit the headlines by calling for peace and talks at a time when tensions were rising between the two countries. He then went to question the air strike, ask for proof of the casualty figure, and blame the BJP for politicising the operation, sparking controversy at each stage.Experts say the conflicting views of the two leaders underline the confusion in the Congress about its strategy to deal with the BJP’s attempts to centre its election campaign on national security.Guru Nanak Dev University’s political science department head Professor Jagroop Singh Sekhon says the attempts to invoke national security would not have much impact on voting behaviour of Punjabis. “They [Punjabis] suffer the most whenever there is danger of war between India and Pakistan. The BJP is a marginalised player here and will not gain at all in the upcoming elections,” he said.BATTLING REBELLIONThere is a sudden proliferation of splinter factions and alliances that not just has muddied political waters but also kept traditional parties on tenterhooks. The AAP and the SAD have, in recent months, been convulsed with internal squabbles and splits.The AAP, rocked by unabated bickering since its underwhelming showing in the 2017 assembly elections, faced a revolt by seven of the 20 party legislators last July after Sukhpal Singh Khaira’s removal from the post of leader of opposition in the assembly for defying the party leadership.FOURTH FRONTThe PEP is now at the forefront of an effort to cobble together an alliance - Punjab Democratic Alliance (PDA) - of disparate parties that also include the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which, despite the state’s 32% scheduled caste population, has never made a significant mark in Punjab. Styled as the fourth front, the PDA fancies itself as a challenger to the dominance of the Congress and the SAD-BJP coalition.“The alliance will contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats. Our primary aim is to defeat the Congress and the Badals,” said Khaira. The alliance has reached a consensus on names of its candidates for nine of the 13 seats. But political observers see them more as potential spoilers than winners. “As none of the entities in the fourth front has a pan-Punjab base, they may only end up damaging the key parties,” said Pramod Kumar, a Chandigarh-based political analyst.ADVANTAGE CONGRESSThe breakaway groups have dented the AAP and the SAD, setting the stage for multi-cornered contests that may play out to the advantage of the Congress, with grabbed 38.5% of the votes in the 2017 assembly elections. The party also won the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha and Shahkot assembly by-elections, municipal and panchayat polls by huge margins in the past two years. The Congress is counting as much on its government’s farm loan waiver and crackdown against gangsters and terror modules as its state leaders’ ability to rival Akalis on the Panthic pitch.Please do Upvote & Share if you like !!!Also Please Follow me for more such interesting answers:)