'ALGORITHM DRIVEN SOCIAL MEDIA HAS PERSONALISED INDIAN POLITICS'

Karti says growing polarisation has lowered the quality of debate

- TIKAM SHARMA

MP Karti Chidambaram with Editorial Director of NewsX Priya Sehgal

Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram said he has no regrets about not knowing Hindi, stating that he never had the opportunity to learn the language and that there was no necessity for him to do so. "I don't regret it, but I never had an opportunity to learn it, and there's no necessity to learn Hindi,” Chidambaram said while speaking at the India News Manch conclave organised by the ITV Network.

Speaking on parliamentary politics, Chidambaram said growing polarisation has significantly lowered the quality of debate in Parliament. He observed that unlike earlier governments, where informal backchannel communication existed to resolve disagreements, such mechanisms have now disappeared. He attributed this breakdown to excessive centralisation of power and a growing lack of political trust on both sides of the aisle.