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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday suggested that the time had come for the country to draw new guidelines and set new standards in the wake of the latest debate on who could be included in the Council of Ministers or those who were to be identified as "tainted'' Ministers. "A vibrant discussion which is now taking place about who should be a Minister, who is a tainted Minister... in all these matters, ultimately our country has to devise new guidelines, new standards and we have all to work to realise that goal,'' he said releasing a book No, My Lord! A Window on India's Realpolitik by Hari Jaisingh, former Editor of The Tribune here. Dr. Singh said that politics in the country was different in the first two decades after Independence, a time when there was a class of leaders trained under the inspiring leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. However, these leaders were a by-product of a very limited group, the middle classes and professionals. Since then, he said, a churning had been taking place in Indian politics. "More forces have been unleashed by the onward march of the democratic process and we have today groups of people, they are in important positions, who do not draw this distinction between the public interest and private interest, who do not recognise that the state exists to promote social good. This distinction between the public good and private good does not come easily. Our political system has to pass through this phase which I regard is probably an essential component of our polity growing to maturity.''
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