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Post by Rishi Sat Dec 08, 2012 11:28 am

Dr B.R. Ambedkar, architect of India’s constitution, explained to members of the constituent assembly on Dec 30, 1948, “the only sanction through which collective responsibility can be enforced is through the prime minister (or the chief minister, in the case of a state). In my judgment collective responsibility is enforced by the enforcement of two principles. One principle is that no person shall be nominated to the cabinet except on the advice of the prime minister. Secondly no person shall be retained as a member of the cabinet if the prime minister says that he shall be dismissed.”

He was replying to members who objected to the prime minister being called ‘the head’ of the council of ministers. To be fair to Omar Abdullah, the first principle was violated in India in its very first coalition at the centre in 1977, by the Janata Party government. The prime minister, Morarji Desai accepted each party’s nominee for his cabinet. That practice was followed by successive coalition governments, Atal Behari Vajpayee’s as well as Manmohan Singh’s.

But this does not, indeed should not, mean the retention of a rotten apple in the cabinet’s basket. Raja had to quit to be replaced by another nominee of the DMK.

http://dawn.com/2012/12/08/coalitions-corruption/

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