With advisers like these: Ajit Doval's disregard for letter and spirit of Constitution

In order to highlight national security threats to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval, while addressing Indian Police Service probationers at their passing out parade, drew their attention to the “frontiers of fourth generation warfare” in civil society, which could be “subverted, suborned, divided and manipulated” by the enemies of the nation. And the political ideology of the elected executive thus becomes the defining entity for the rule of law.” Ajit Doval, who has been Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NSA since 2014, presides over all the security services in the country. The NSA’s preoccupation with “fourth generation warfare” in civil society may be labelled as part of the ‘Doval doctrine’, which first came to light in the wake of the January 2016 terrorist attack on the Pathankot airbase in Punjab near the Pakistan border. The NSA adopted a hard line on India’s border dispute with China and said at the Munich Security Conference in New Delhi in 2014 that “India would not compromise on its territorial interests”, when the very purpose of the meetings of the Special Representatives of the two countries was to seek a compromise.