Drawing on epics, Murli Manohar Joshi offers lessons in rajdharma to 'King'

The article by Murli Manohar Joshi named as 'Rajdharma - How rulers must conduct: Lessons from ancient India' talks about governance lessons from epics and is being seen as his view on the Modi govt

“Freedom of expression and participation in frank discussion on important matters related to the state by the people was treated as basic for a righteous governance by the king.”

This formulation  is one of several on the precepts of good governance contained in an exhaustive eight-page article penned by Murli Manohar Joshi – the once-formidable former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party – that has generated enormous buzz among the top echelons of the BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh who see it as a sign of the saffron statesman’s disquiet over the current direction of the Narendra Modi government.

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