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Constitutional Morality - Prime Minister and Chief Minister's wisdom!

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to recognize pending criminal cases against MPs as a disqualification for their appointment as ministers.
However, the SC bench said that both the Prime Minister and chief ministers owe it to constitutional morality not to appoint persons with criminal background as ministers.
The SC said it cannot read an additional disqualification for appointment of ministers other than what is provided in the Constitution.
However, it said the Constitution gave such primacy to the PM that he will have to set an example of constitutional morality by not appointing such persons as ministers against whom serious criminal cases or corruption charges were pending.
A five-judge constitution bench, headed by the CJI, gave its judgment on a PIL by Manoj Narula, who had sought direction against criminalization of politics.
Courtesy: TOI 27th Aug 2014
"The strength or weakness of constitutional morality in contemporary India has to be understood in the light of a cycle of escalating demands from the people and the callous response of successive governments to those demands. In a parliamentary democracy, the obligations of constitutional morality are expected to be equally binding on the government and the opposition. In India, the same political party treats these obligations very differently when it is in office and when it is out of it. This has contributed greatly to the popular perception of our political system as being amoral.Andrew Béteille Professor Emeritus, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, professed in his lecture delivered in the Administrative College, India, some time in 2008.



i am not sure if he  had insight of what  the Apex Court will retrospect this day!  While the people of India equally pronounced their decisive verdict on the astute failure of the very moral obligation by former PM Manmohansingh
in the guise of coalition dharma -    If a learned person chooses to practice shrewd tactics to save his skin, even his soul will not spare him. The inner soul being invisible, he chose to ignore this for long and therefore the whole people rejected him. His whole life of eminence on one side and other side his selfish giant anxiety to cling to power(?) the residual prime minister-ship, , the ship has to sink!

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