The president symbolises the kind of country India aspires to be. Droupadi Murmu is only the second woman to be president and, strikingly, the first indigenous Indian
has stolen the natural ground of social justice from under the Congress party, which now heads an, shows how far the grand old party has fallen. It would, argues Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a commentator, have done better to endorse Ms Murmu than to promote its own hackneyed candidate.
Opposition pettiness has been on most visible display, however, with the election of the vice-president, due on August 6th. Here the’s calculations are more nakedly political. Among other things, the vice-president presides over Parliament’s upper house, where thelacks a majority. It has chosen as its nominee a party henchman, Jagdeep Dhankhar, formerly a combative governor of West Bengal.
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