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Father Badal Chief Minister, son Badal Deputy Chief Minister
By O.J.George
There is nothing constitutionally wrong in the father remaining the Chief Minister and the son being the executive officer in the capacity as Deputy Chief Minister.
Does it have any unethical principles involved? No one can be sure. In developed democratic countries, perhaps the people may not like this sort of serving the people.
In the US, one cannot be President for more than two terms of four years each. Otherwise William Jefferson Clinton, Jr, ie our Bill Clinton, may have continued as President for many more terms.
See the ease with which he secured the release of two journalist girls from the clutches of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, who was overpowered by Bill’s charm.
The latest report is that Kim had tried to do away with those who disclosed his fathering a child through his first love. Everything has been kept secret. What sort of a father he is who would not take care of his children, legal or illegal?
Barack Obama cannot be President after 2016, howsoever popular he could be.
In Russia also, there is such a provision. But Vladimir Putin was not to be cowed down. He saw to the coronation of his acolyte Dmitri Medvedev as the President who nominated our man Putin as the Prime Minister.
Maybe, after Dmitri completes one term, Putin may come back as all-powerful President again.
Let us come to Badals. Father Prakash Singh Badal is Chief Minister of Punjab. Son Sukhbir Singh Badal has been Deputy Chief Minister even as he was not a member of the legislature. After six months, constitutionally, one cannot remain a minister without being a member of the House.
So Sukhbir Singh Badal resigned. But that was not the end of it. Sukhbir has got himself elected from the Jalalabad Assembly constituency and he is Deputy Chief Minister again.
Well, that cannot be dismissed as a Punjabi style. Tamil Nadu has Kalaignar Dr Muthuvel Karunanidhi as Chief Minister even as M.Stalin, his son through the first wife is Deputy Chief Minister.
Kalaignar’s son M.Azhagiri (lately he has changed his name as Alagiri so that North Indians can pronounce his name correctly) through his second wife is Union Cabinet Minister. Kanimozhi, daughter through the third wife, is only an MP.
Go to Jammu and Kashmir. Father Farooq Abdullah is Union Cabinet Minister, while son Omar Abdullah is the Chief Minister of J and K.
Sometimes I think, suppose this should have happened to the Nehru family now, for example, Sonia Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi become ministers, all hell would have broken loose.
Our democracy is still fragile. Let those who can muster people’s mandate rule over us. But let them work for a welfare state under which even as progress and enrichment ensue, poverty should be eliminated in toto.
There is nothing constitutionally wrong in the father remaining the Chief Minister and the son being the executive officer in the capacity as Deputy Chief Minister.
Does it have any unethical principles involved? No one can be sure. In developed democratic countries, perhaps the people may not like this sort of serving the people.
In the US, one cannot be President for more than two terms of four years each. Otherwise William Jefferson Clinton, Jr, ie our Bill Clinton, may have continued as President for many more terms.
See the ease with which he secured the release of two journalist girls from the clutches of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, who was overpowered by Bill’s charm.
The latest report is that Kim had tried to do away with those who disclosed his fathering a child through his first love. Everything has been kept secret. What sort of a father he is who would not take care of his children, legal or illegal?
Barack Obama cannot be President after 2016, howsoever popular he could be.
In Russia also, there is such a provision. But Vladimir Putin was not to be cowed down. He saw to the coronation of his acolyte Dmitri Medvedev as the President who nominated our man Putin as the Prime Minister.
Maybe, after Dmitri completes one term, Putin may come back as all-powerful President again.
Let us come to Badals. Father Prakash Singh Badal is Chief Minister of Punjab. Son Sukhbir Singh Badal has been Deputy Chief Minister even as he was not a member of the legislature. After six months, constitutionally, one cannot remain a minister without being a member of the House.
So Sukhbir Singh Badal resigned. But that was not the end of it. Sukhbir has got himself elected from the Jalalabad Assembly constituency and he is Deputy Chief Minister again.
Well, that cannot be dismissed as a Punjabi style. Tamil Nadu has Kalaignar Dr Muthuvel Karunanidhi as Chief Minister even as M.Stalin, his son through the first wife is Deputy Chief Minister.
Kalaignar’s son M.Azhagiri (lately he has changed his name as Alagiri so that North Indians can pronounce his name correctly) through his second wife is Union Cabinet Minister. Kanimozhi, daughter through the third wife, is only an MP.
Go to Jammu and Kashmir. Father Farooq Abdullah is Union Cabinet Minister, while son Omar Abdullah is the Chief Minister of J and K.
Sometimes I think, suppose this should have happened to the Nehru family now, for example, Sonia Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi become ministers, all hell would have broken loose.
Our democracy is still fragile. Let those who can muster people’s mandate rule over us. But let them work for a welfare state under which even as progress and enrichment ensue, poverty should be eliminated in toto.
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