In Summary
• People must grasp the reality: the President has only the powers specified by the Constitution, nothing more, unless allowed by the Constitution
• The President has no 'inherent; powers. He/she is entirely a creature of the Constitution. When he objects he cannot have a purely formal role, he is wrong
Last week I commented that Prof Upendra Baxi wrote about an unwritten constitution of India. Readers might have viewed this as a piece of gratuitous exhibitionism (in other words showing off) on my ...