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Even now Article 74 states that the President may exercise his powers "directly". This right is necessary. The Prime Minister's oath of office requires him to abide by the Constitution. But the President's oath compels him to protect the Constitution.


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3/D-7 Jul 18, 2007 12:03 AM	PARITABA PATIL WILL TAKE PRESIDENCY TO GREAT HNEIGHTS .TRUST CONGRESS ! ""Pratibha’s latest Family Problem: HC Slams CBI over murder probe Brother Named In Case: CBI corroded...what prevented it from MUMBAI, JULY 17: Two days before the Presidential elections, a two-year-old murder case has come back to haunt UPA-Left candidate Pratibha Patil. The Bombay High Court today expressed concern over the manner in which the CBI has investigated the September 2005 murder of Jalgaon District Congress Committee president Vishram Patil and pulled up the agency for not probing allegations made by Patil’s wife Rajni that he was killed at the behest of two political rivals, including G N Patil, brother of Pratibha Patil. “If this is the kind of investigation you have conducted, then we are concerned, indeed we are constrained to say that the country’s premier investigating agency is being corroded,” observed a Division Bench of Justice R M S Khandeparkar and Justice V K Tahilramani directing the CBI’s investigation officer to be in court at the next hearing on July 30. The court asked Additional Solicitor General B A Desai why there has been no investigation regarding the alleged link between the two killers and the politicians. “What prevented the CBI from investigating that aspect?” the court asked. Desai argued that the agency had examined 46 witnesses and that the Investigating Officer, who would explain, was in Ahmedabad for his daughter’s wedding. "' http://www.indianexpress.com/story/205424.html a k ghai mumbai, India PERMALINK \| LIKE (0) \| DISLIKE (0) \| REPORT ABUSE
2/D-12 Jul 17, 2007 12:02 AM	Good point Darryl Lewis (Mumbai). What do you think of the American Presidential system balanced by a powerful Senate system and Congress? How about the french system? Arun Maheshwari Bangalore, India PERMALINK \| LIKE (0) \| DISLIKE (0) \| REPORT ABUSE
1/D-3 Jul 14, 2007 12:01 AM	As a citizen of this country, i understand fully the frustrations that have elicited this article. However, for the very reasons that mr puri cites as reasons for an executive president, i believe that it is not something meant for a country like ours. We just need to look west, to see how the idea of a 'benign but powerful' president can go wrong. and repeatedly at that. india is like a pressure cooker that needs multiple outlets, and a single individual will never be able to sufficiently satisfy everyone's needs. Besides, wouldn't he be extracted from the same 'squalid pool' that we so 'despise'. and, who will govern this all powerful president?. we must reconcile ourselves to at least one more generation of the same mess in our political life; since mutual assured destruction as practised by our political parties today is the only guarantee we have that they will not join forces and gang up against us. I shudder to think what havoc an unopposed executive president would wreak on us. darryl lewis mumbai, India PERMALINK \| LIKE (0) \| DISLIKE (0) \| REPORT ABUSE

1/D-3 Jul 14, 2007 12:01 AM	As a citizen of this country, i understand fully the frustrations that have elicited this article. However, for the very reasons that mr puri cites as reasons for an executive president, i believe that it is not something meant for a country like ours. We just need to look west, to see how the idea of a 'benign but powerful' president can go wrong. and repeatedly at that. india is like a pressure cooker that needs multiple outlets, and a single individual will never be able to sufficiently satisfy everyone's needs. Besides, wouldn't he be extracted from the same 'squalid pool' that we so 'despise'. and, who will govern this all powerful president?. we must reconcile ourselves to at least one more generation of the same mess in our political life; since mutual assured destruction as practised by our political parties today is the only guarantee we have that they will not join forces and gang up against us. I shudder to think what havoc an unopposed executive president would wreak on us. darryl lewis mumbai, India PERMALINK \| LIKE (0) \| DISLIKE (0) \| REPORT ABUSE
2/D-12 Jul 17, 2007 12:02 AM	Good point Darryl Lewis (Mumbai). What do you think of the American Presidential system balanced by a powerful Senate system and Congress? How about the french system? Arun Maheshwari Bangalore, India PERMALINK \| LIKE (0) \| DISLIKE (0) \| REPORT ABUSE
3/D-7 Jul 18, 2007 12:03 AM	PARITABA PATIL WILL TAKE PRESIDENCY TO GREAT HNEIGHTS .TRUST CONGRESS ! ""Pratibha’s latest Family Problem: HC Slams CBI over murder probe Brother Named In Case: CBI corroded...what prevented it from MUMBAI, JULY 17: Two days before the Presidential elections, a two-year-old murder case has come back to haunt UPA-Left candidate Pratibha Patil. The Bombay High Court today expressed concern over the manner in which the CBI has investigated the September 2005 murder of Jalgaon District Congress Committee president Vishram Patil and pulled up the agency for not probing allegations made by Patil’s wife Rajni that he was killed at the behest of two political rivals, including G N Patil, brother of Pratibha Patil. “If this is the kind of investigation you have conducted, then we are concerned, indeed we are constrained to say that the country’s premier investigating agency is being corroded,” observed a Division Bench of Justice R M S Khandeparkar and Justice V K Tahilramani directing the CBI’s investigation officer to be in court at the next hearing on July 30. The court asked Additional Solicitor General B A Desai why there has been no investigation regarding the alleged link between the two killers and the politicians. “What prevented the CBI from investigating that aspect?” the court asked. Desai argued that the agency had examined 46 witnesses and that the Investigating Officer, who would explain, was in Ahmedabad for his daughter’s wedding. "' http://www.indianexpress.com/story/205424.html a k ghai mumbai, India PERMALINK \| LIKE (0) \| DISLIKE (0) \| REPORT ABUSE


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