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Too much democracy The BJP has distanced itself from the remarks by the Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant that India has been “too much of a democracy” to allow for reforms, which he career bureaucrat categorised as “bold”. Officers trying to keep the ruling party in good humour, especially when they have been given plum roles, is nothing new. They do not and must not have the right to oppose political choices of an elected government. Yet, how much they sing today’s tunes, where they sing and how they sing is a matter of choice. Each one must decide individually where they want to stand or fall in the full glare of the public. Kant was a little too much to digest even for the BJP, which has tried to end the furore over those remarks with Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad saying, “We are proud of our democracy.” Kant himself has explained that the way his remarks were reported is not the way he meant to say it. We must accept his explanations yet note that his choice of wor

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