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Portfolio pragmatism
The allocation of portfolios to Cabinet ministers has been a predictably tortuous task for a Prime Minister with an impossible tight rope to walk. Yet as much as it showed up the pulls and pressures he is subject to, and especially in the drama that surrounded the coveted appointment in the Ministry of Finance, the end result is not unpromising.
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Pressure Bharati
Even before it assumed office, in its National Agenda document, the BJP government made it clear that a reappraisal of the Prasar Bharati Act is inevitable. No doubt, the manner in which the corporation is being run could do with some improvement, but there can be two schools of thought on whether this calls for radical structural readjustment.
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Words, words, words
I wish everyone would stop writing about politics. After all, what is Vajpayee to you or me? He does not cause us any pain or happiness. He is and we are entirely different, entirely disconnected. Tomorrow, let's say, he decides to raise the price of sugar. If you are rich, it does not matter. If you are middle class, you will be bargaining hard with some vegetable vendor, trying to save on a few paise here and there.
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Limitations of the Presidency
All's well that ends well. But President K.R. Narayanan will have to wait for a few more days to know whether the BJP-led government he has sworn in is stable. Ever since the Election Commission formally informed him about the constitution of the 12th Lok Sabha, his overriding consideration had been to instal a stable government.
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