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President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the country “must always guard against majoritarianism” and India needed a strong Opposition standing guard.
The President cautioned against over-centralisation of power, and said a diverse country like India was best served by a parliamentary, and not a presidential, system of governance where power is delegated. He asked scholars and political scientists to analyse the consequences and long-term implications of moving away from the classic tenets of a parliamentary system.
The President, speaking at an event in Mumbai, left people in little doubt that his comments were in the context of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
