Prime Ministers, in the past, had overawed the Supreme Court Judges and made them throw the Constitution and guaranteed fundamental rights into dustbin, as we shamefully note from the infamous Emergency-ADM Jabalpur case.
The uniqueness of PM in our system of governance is such that the Supreme Court had felt he was no ordinary person to be summoned to appear like a common accused in a trial court. It had ordered setting up of a special court in ..
Singh chose Baru as his media adviser and tasked him to be his 'eyes and ears'. Baru's eyes and ears absorbed for five years the most critical behind the curtain play of political decisions, which got branded as Singh's decision — from implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to induction of A Raja in the Cabinet.
The most startling claim in Baru's book was that PMO official Pulok Chatterjee had "regular, almost daily meetings with Sonia Gandhi in which he was to brief her... and seek her instructions on important files to be cleared by the PM."
The uniqueness of PM in our system of governance is such that the Supreme Court had felt he was no ordinary person to be summoned to appear like a common accused in a trial court. It had ordered setting up of a special court in ..
a high-security zone to appear in a cheating case [Commissioner of Delhi Police case 1996 (6) SCC 323]. To our amazement, we learnt from a just-released book by PM Manmohan Singh's one-time media adviser, Sanjaya Baru, that this Prime Minister was bent by the party president.
After the party president took the high moral ground stand to give up power and chose Singh as the head of a Congress-led coalition government, Singh as PM had no illusion with whom the power centre rested.
After the party president took the high moral ground stand to give up power and chose Singh as the head of a Congress-led coalition government, Singh as PM had no illusion with whom the power centre rested.
Singh chose Baru as his media adviser and tasked him to be his 'eyes and ears'. Baru's eyes and ears absorbed for five years the most critical behind the curtain play of political decisions, which got branded as Singh's decision — from implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to induction of A Raja in the Cabinet.
The most startling claim in Baru's book was that PMO official Pulok Chatterjee had "regular, almost daily meetings with Sonia Gandhi in which he was to brief her... and seek her instructions on important files to be cleared by the PM."
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