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I refer to a news report (Judges Bill: Questions over V-Ps role as panel chief,IE,July 25) regarding the proposed Judges Bill and reported views in the matter of the Vice President of India....
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I refer to a news report (Judges Bill: Questions over V-Ps role as panel chief,IE,July 25) regarding the proposed Judges Bill and reported views in the matter of the Vice President of India. Your readers are aware that the Constitution does not require the Vice President,who is ex-officio Chairman,Rajya Sabha,to have views on the legislative agenda of the executive. As such,the question of willingness or otherwise,in the case of deliberations on a draft of a bill that is yet to be introduced in Parliament,would not arise.
P. Harish
JS to Vice President of India
New Delhi
Past perspective
Shekhar Gupta,in Three clever by half (IE,July 25),has appropriately placed the recent Islamabad fiasco in historical perspective,tracing this round back to earlier decades of Indo-Pak relations. Gupta is right in his analysis that each time it was the Pakistani leaderships bursts of delusion and cleverness by half that did the damage. The mismatch of the interlocutors from the two sides the Pakistani side representing its feudal and militaristic mindset,in contrast to the grassroots democratic credentials of the Indian side compounded the problem. The question however arises: as long as these unhappy,unreconcilable ground realities persist,is it worthwhile to waste our energy and effort in an exercise whose result is a foregone conclusion?
M. Ratan
New Delhi
Stitch in time
The cases against Amit Shah certainly didnt develop overnight (Shielding Shah,IE,July 26). The Gujarat governments inaction on its own CIDs reports on Shah should have raised eyebrows,particularly in the higher echelons of the BJP. The BJP lacked the foresight and good sense to remedy this. Gujarat may be BJPs bastion,with Narendra Modi as its leading light. But the partys image has to take precedence over the compulsions of state politics. This laxity led to more serious allegations against Shah. Ultimately,in the Sohrabuddin encounter case,the apex court had to step in and issue directions to the CBI. The resultant arrest of the home minister of a leading state,doesnt do the nation proud. A stitch in time saves nine.
R. Narayanan
Ghaziabad
New tools
This refers to Transmission lines (IE,July 26). Theres no soft option left with the RBI than to tighten policy. Ila Patnaik has precisely signalled that if,along with food shortage,sugar policy,drought,rise in non-food,non-fuel inflation which are more serious are not addressed now itll kick off spiralling inflation. A rise in interest rate is expected,which may curtail growth but is inevitable in the short run. Its proven that traditional instruments of credit control fail in the transmission mechanism test or responds slowly. Its now essential to find another mechanism to control prices.
Shishir Sindekar
Nasik
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