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Indian Tradition of not Accepting Resignations

In 1956 the then Minister of Railways and Transport Lal Bahadur Shastri submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.  He did so after about 112 people were killed in a railway accident in Mahbubnagar.  Nehru refused to accept his resignation.  A few months later he resigned again because of another rail accident in Tamil [...]

Can an Aam Admi Become India’s Prime Minister?

“I am an aam aadmi (common man). If I can become the Prime Minister, then so can you. I came from a very ordinary, lower-middle class family. It is because of my education that I am what I am” These words were uttered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to children during the Children’s Day festival [...]