<div><font color="Navy">Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 32, Dated 13 Aug 2011
No Place For Modern Maharajas
Discretionary powers are a source of patronage to the favoured few. Society will benefit by doing away with them
Jayaprakash Narayan Founder-President, Lok Satta Party
IT IS generally acknowledged that discretion and arbitrary power breed corruption and unaccountability. That is why all liberal democracies have built institutional mechanisms to ensure equal enforcement of rules for all. Power is a sacred trust, not a private privilege.
Sadly, our elected leaders have always acted like modern-day maharajas. The natural propensity of our society to prostrate before power has been compounded by the ill-considered licence-permit-quota-raj built in the quest for the
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No Place For Modern Maharajas
Discretionary powers are a source of patronage to the favoured few. Society will benefit by doing away with them
Jayaprakash Narayan Founder-President, Lok Satta Party
IT IS generally acknowledged that discretion and arbitrary power breed corruption and unaccountability. That is why all liberal democracies have built institutional mechanisms to ensure equal enforcement of rules for all. Power is a sacred trust, not a private privilege.
Sadly, our elected leaders have always acted like modern-day maharajas. The natural propensity of our society to prostrate before power has been compounded by the ill-considered licence-permit-quota-raj built in the quest for the
More...