India’s dignity is at stake

It seems ironical to recall in the run-up to the election of the 12th President of India that when the office was being discussed in the Constituent Assembly, Jawaharlal Nehru refused to spell out the rights and duties of the job. The President’s position was analogous to that of the British monarch, he said, and such stipulations would derogate from its dignity. He relied on the evolution of conventions that would, as in Britain, circumscribe the incumbent’s theoretically absolute powers.

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