Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee might put in place an institutionalised arrangement to enable Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani perform a bigger role in the government.
Advani has shown his eagerness to strengthen the office of the Deputy Prime Minister by seeking the induction of additional staff, including senior IAS officers. His office is flooded with complaints falling beyond the jurisdiction of the home ministry. There had to be an institutionalised arrangement to attend to these issues, sources in the government said.
The Cabinet secretariat conducted a scrutiny of records to study the arrangements that Prime Ministers had made when appointing deputies. However, it concluded that there was no precedent of an institutionalised arrangement for a Deputy Prime Minister.
Records related to Sardar Patel