RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
Fixed tenures sound like good administration in theory. In practice, an officer is often appointed to such a past a few days – or even a few hours – before he is due to retire. That in effect gives him a two year extension. The CJI does not have a fixed two year tenure, retires punctually at 65, sometimes in the middle of the month. Look back to the apex of the civil service, where cabinet secretaries are now averaging four year terms, courtesy extensions, and recall one incumbent who has left footprints on the sandy banks of the Yamuna.
Fixed tenures sound like good administration in theory. In practice, an officer is often appointed to such a past a few days – or even a few hours – before he is due to retire. That in effect gives him a two year extension. The CJI does not have a fixed two year tenure, retires punctually at 65, sometimes in the middle of the month. Look back to the apex of the civil service, where cabinet secretaries are now averaging four year terms, courtesy extensions, and recall one incumbent who has left footprints on the sandy banks of the Yamuna.