How Modi is violating his own rules by filling PSU Boards with BJP workers

These include ONGC (Sambit Patra), Engineers India Ltd (Shazia Ilmi), Cotton Corporation of India Ltd (Rajika Kacheria)

The decision to nominate BJP workers as non-official directors makes a mockery of the party’s 1998 manifesto and the government’s own guidelines issued in 2015.

In an interview to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in mid-2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeated his favourite maxim, “minimum government, maximum governance.”

He specifically went on to state, “in a developing economy, state enterprises do have a role in some sectors. They have to be managed professionally and efficiently. We have given them operational freedom and brought in talent from the private sector as well to facilitate this.”

Considering that the NDA government had until