Full text: Justice Gautam Patel’s speech, ‘Whose govt is it anyway?’ at the first JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture | The Indian Express

Full text: Justice Gautam Patel’s speech, ‘Whose govt is it anyway?’ at the first JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture | The Indian Express

Updated: June 6, 2019 10:57:10 am

Full text: Justice Gautam Patel’s speech, ‘Whose govt is it anyway?’ at the first JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture

What do elections achieve? They only establish what Rosanvallon calls the democracy of authorisation, the granting of permission to govern.

Justice Gautam Patel. (File)

Following is the full text of Justice Gautam Patel’s speech ‘Whose government is it anyway?’ at the first JB D’Souza Memorial Lecture.