Jumbo Cabinets

Sir, - The major limbo in our Constitution is the virtual absence of norms and suitability to become a Minister and any limit on the size of Cabinets - Centre and State - as precisely focused by Mr. C. Subramanian in his article `Jumbo Cabinets' (The Hindu, May 15).

Ministers, particularly in coalition governments, are appointed more in number than actual needs just to appease coalition partners on whose support hangs the fate of the Ministry.

This very corollary of pushing a Ministry through by hook or crook itself smacks of corruption. When the foundation itself anchors on corruption how can we expect the bureaucracy to be honest? Nevertheless, it has become the order of the day inasmuch as single party rule at the Centre or in the States is becoming bleaker and bleaker.

V. E. Venkataramani,

Chennai

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