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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Does the Indian Constitution require a make-over?

Look at what has happened in Karnataka. The Chief Minister gaddi is like a musical chair, every few months we seem to be in a crisis. Being a "mannina maga" myself, I cringe everytime I see Mr. Gowda goes on tele and says that he is not power hungry. With the events of the past week in Karnataka, the people do not seem to have ANY say in who gets to run the State. The decision of who will run the state is left to some committees in New Delhi belonging to poltical parties. As a voter I totally feel short changed. When I voted last, I surely did not want Kumaraswamy as the Chief Minister or for that matter Yediurappa. As a voter, we do not have a choice of who becomes the Chief Minister. Normally each party "projects" their Chief Ministerial candidate. That alone does not guarantee that he/ she will ultimately become the CM. The internal politics in the Congress party has given us a live demonstration of that the person projected as CM, did not even last 2 years in power. I strongly beleive that we should elect the Chief Minister directly, and the state legislature separately.

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