Skip the strictures from the Supreme Court for going overboard. There is no way you canignore the rotund ringmaster of the Great Indian Electoral Circus.
Skip the strictures from the Supreme Court for going overboard. There is no way you canignore the rotund ringmaster of the Great Indian Electoral Circus.
The model code of conduct, the ceiling on poll expenses and the voter identity cardshave altered the way we choose our representatives. And, adjectives have rolled in:al-Seshan, ob-Seshan, sen-Seshan. "In very highly elated moods, I give myself sevenor eight marks out of 10," he says of his CEC-show. But the Magsaysay awardeewon’t rest yet. With books on the degeneration and regeneration of India behind him,he’s looking at his trusts to sustain the "campaign of nation-cleansing andspiritual awakening".
What is he aiming to become? President, governor, envoy or—say itsoftly—consensus prime minister? "I might retreat to obscurity but that’snot a high possibility. It would be inconsistent with my character," he says. Doesanyone expect this bull-in-a-china-shop to withdraw gently from our lives?
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