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From: raghu@ut-sally.UUCP (Raghu Ramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: India news bulletins - tortures and torturers
Message-ID: <3726@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 05:22:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 05:22:51 1985
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References: <1228@mit-vax.UUCP> <10@crystal.UUCP>
Reply-To: raghu@sally.UUCP (Raghu Ramakrishnan)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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From mohan@sbcs:
>> >	 Governors Moved Around
 
From oaf@mit-vax: 
>>     In a preceding bulletin (11/20/85) it was mentioned that Amnesty
>> International singled out the governments of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh 
>> for accusations of torture on an administrative basis.
>>     Apparently, such accusations do not hurt these gentlemen's careers.
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From venky@crystal.UUCP (in response to the above):
>The role of a governor in Indian states is totally different from that of a
>governor in US. The chief minister is the administrative head and is 
>responsible for all administrative policies and actions. The governor has very 
>little say, if anything at all, in administration and normally is not affected 
>by the actions of the state government.

A couple of questions:

1. Is it the implication that the governor shares no responsibility? And that
he is, in effect, no more than a figurehead?

2. So forget the governor. Are the careers of the respective chief ministers
likely to be affected by the Amnesty indictment? Aw, c'mon :-)