What is disconcerting about Justice Gangopadhyay’s foray into politics is that he used his Constitutional highchair as the pulpit from which he broadcast his political ambitions.
PRESIDENTIAL polls have a history of turning the country’s political fortunes. The numbers game for Rashtrapati Bhavan began in 1967 when the united Opposition, under the banner of the Samyukta Vidhayak Dal, nominated former Chief Justice of India K Subba Rao for the President’s post. Ju