11
Jan
2012
Jan
2012
NOT A TEAPOT
Jokes aside, the Prime Minister is an office of the Constitution, not a teapot to be passed on as a family heirloom. Nor indeed is Chief Minister. Indeed, the whole idea of the Westminster Model was to get away from monarchical practices. Yet, here, we are staring at the possibility of a Queen Mother and a King in just a few months’ time. And it is only in the Congress — and that too at the level of the Prime Minister — that this inheritance thing works.
Jokes aside, the Prime Minister is an office of the Constitution, not a teapot to be passed on as a family heirloom. Nor indeed is Chief Minister. Indeed, the whole idea of the Westminster Model was to get away from monarchical practices. Yet, here, we are staring at the possibility of a Queen Mother and a King in just a few months’ time. And it is only in the Congress — and that too at the level of the Prime Minister — that this inheritance thing works.
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Dynastic rule by the Congress Party has made a laughing stock of the man who turned around the Indian economy in the early nineties. Have a spine, Prime Minister.
Business Line : Columns / Ekalavya : Is the Prime Minister a teapot?
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