tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15602189.post114091203544102741..comments2023-09-21T16:17:51.838+05:30Comments on Law and Other Things: Re-reading Ram Jawaya KapoorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348738084817273397noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15602189.post-1141713480063198432006-03-07T12:08:00.000+05:302006-03-07T12:08:00.000+05:30Granville Austin has a fascinating account of the ...Granville Austin has a fascinating account of the Rajendra Prasad- Nehru dialouge over presidential powers with Nehru threatening to resign twice. There seems to have been a polite but charged exchange of memos through the early years of the Republic which drageed in both B.N Rau and Setalvad..<BR/><BR/>Now both Ayyar and Setalvad insist that it is perfectly clear that the President's position is analogous to the role played by the English monarch. Yet, the constitutional text itself expressly requires certain tasks to be carried out with the aid and advice of the cabinet, but doesn't mention it in others. From what little I have read of the CAD I don't see the "presidential question" being given much importance. If we see the constitution as a successor of the GoI Act, 1935 one could argue that the President was expected to enjoy greater discretion.<BR/><BR/>So was the question as settled as their Lordships seem to suggest in Ram Jawaaya Kapoor?Rohit Dehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974780088015911428noreply@blogger.com