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Home › Views › Day's Debate › Is the Congress institutionalising ‘remote control’?

Is the Congress institutionalising ‘remote control’?

GN Bureau | February 10 2012

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Sriprakash Jaiswal, in charge of the Congress election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, says it does not matter who will become the chief minister (if the party comes to power), because Rahul Gandhi will run the state with ‘remote control’.

The term ‘remote control’ came to prominence thanks to Bal Thackeray. In the years since then, there have been many instances in the states of this innovative form of governance, in which you can wield authority without the accountability that comes with it. After 2004, the Congress seems to have institutionalised this at the centre.

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4thAugust1932

Dissolve the political party after its founder is dead.

2 months 4 weeks ago
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klnrao47

when the constitutional bodies like President of India, CEC, CVC etc., are being remote controlled where is the doubt that the cms of congress ruled will be an exception?

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