oh dear, the man who has never won election by the people is worried now
for perspective, Dr. Manmohan Singh is a PM who rules from the upper house of India's parliament, he was elected by the state legislators of the small state of Assam, not directly the people - a bit of a 'loophole' in the constitution was used by Indira Gandhi in the 1980s to establish the precedent of PMs sitting in the upper house even after losing a popular election for the lower house (other ministers are also being brought into govt. through this route)
the good doctor is heading a govt. led by the very party that is the cancer in Indian democracy, the party that has leveraged the historical capital in its' name to relentlessly subvert and evade constitutionality with every sinew and fiber of its' autocratic being, rendering the polity a putrid swamp of lies, legal obfuscations and feudal skull duggery!
the party carries the same name as the broad coalition that led the civil society protests against British rule in India, but today bears no resemblance whatsoever to it, it has no ground organization to speak of and obviously therefore no internal institutions of popular democracy, it buys elections the standard keynesian way, and preferably with the help of criminals!
oh dear, the man who has never won election by the people is worried now
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