President of India has delivered special address in the diamond jubilee of TN Assembly on29th November 2012. In his speech Pranab stressed that the executive is for the good governance of the overall State and not for competitive populism.
This means that the rulers should not go on implementing populist schemes keeping an eye on the votes for next election. He is known for the resistance of free schemes and the subsidies extended to various schemes.
Most political parties and socio economic experts also oppose free schemes. Instead they ask for employment generation. Everybody oppose closure of TASMAC. But govt says that just because of TASMAC revenue, it was possible to implement various (populist) schemes.
Almost no newspaper or media had highlighted this point in Mr Pranab's speech.
