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Judiciary vs Executive: Can a referee become a player?

It may be inadvertent, but the VP seemed to have joined the ongoing face-off between the judiciary and the government

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Bharat Bhushan New Delhi
Prof. Hardwari Lal, an outstanding Jat leader, lawyer, politician and educationist, is said to have once quipped that there were only "one and a half educated Jats" in India – a description that, apart from himself, included Prof. Sarup Singh, who became the Vice Chancellor of Delhi University and was also Governor of Kerala and Gujarat. Since then, the population of educated men and women from the community has grown manifold, and an eminent and scholarly Jat lawyer, Jagdeep Dhankar, is today the vice-president of India and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. India at large and Rajya Sabha MPs, in
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