Should only elected legislators be eligible for chief ministership? | The Hindu Parley podcast

The option provided in the Constitution should be used with honesty, not just to tinker with politics.

July 09, 2021 12:15 am | Updated July 12, 2021 03:52 pm IST

The option provided in the Constitution should be used with honesty, not just to tinker with politics.

The sudden exit of Tirath Singh Rawat as Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, a development the Bharatiya Janata Party sought to explain in terms of a constitutional roadblock to being elected as a legislator with in six months, has led to thickening speculation about the fate of West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee, another unelected Chief Minister.

Here we discuss the road ahead.

Guests: M.R. Madhavan , is President and co-founder of PRS Legislative Research, a public policy research institution; S.Y. Quraishi , served as 17th Chief Election Commissioner of India from July 2010 to June 2012.

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