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The Telegraph (India), January 24, 2009, R-DAY DUTIES GO TO ANTONY
Defence minister A.K. Antony gets to play Prime Minister for Republic Day in the absence of Manmohan Singh, now recuperating from a heart surgery.
Antony will perform the duties of the Prime Minister for the Republic Day ceremonies, according to protocol changes announced by the government today. Vice-President Hamid Ansari will give away the bravery awards.
Foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee, the No. 2 in the cabinet, will lead the delegation-level talks with the Kazakh President.
“The Republic Day parade is the responsibility of the defence ministry. These are the functions of the defence ministry and it is normal for the defence minister to perform the role in the absence of the Prime Minister,” ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar said.
Unlike the Independence Day ceremonies on August 15 each year, the Republic Day events are centred around the President and the chief guest. The Prime Minister is not scheduled to make a speech, for instance, on Republic Day but for August 15, he would be expected to give a speech from the Red Fort. Antony’s role, therefore, will be a limited one for protocol purposes only.
Antony will receive President Pratibha Patil and the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev — the chief guest at this year’s Republic Day parade — at Rajghat in the morning. He will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldiers at India Gate and will also receive Patil and Nazarbayev at the saluting dais on Rajpath just before the parade begins.
On January 28, Antony will address a rally of the National Cadet Corps, an annual event presided over by the Prime Minister. He will also host a reception for the cultural participants of the Republic Day parade at Teen Murti Bhavan in the evening.
Apart from the defence ministry programmes, Mukherjee has been stepping in for the Prime Minister. He received Nazarbayev at a reception in Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
The Telegraph (India), January 24, 2009, CONG GUARDS ON TOES FOR ‘BORN PM’
The Congress’s chief spokesperson looked outraged when asked if the country had two Prime Ministers now that Manmohan Singh was in hospital, but to guards outside the party’s 24 Akbar Road headquarters, the “Pradhan Mantri” was inside.
It meant journalists, who always drove into the complex without being questioned, were stopped at the gate and told to leave their cars outside.
“Pradhan Mantri aaye hain (the Prime Minister has come),” said a guard, referring to Pranab Mukherjee. “ Haan, haan, hamare Pranabda (yes, yes, our Pranabda),” he added, as eyebrows went up.
In lighter moments, Mukherjee would allude to the initials in his name and say he didn’t really need to become a Prime Minister because he was born a “PM”.
It is hard to tell whether the guards punned on the two letters or really took the foreign minister’s amended status seriously.
M. Veerappa Moily, however, seemed almost annoyed when journalists badgered him with queries on whether Mukherjee’s “de facto” status as No. 2 in the government had become “de jure” — or according to the law — now that Singh was expected to be out of action for a while.
“The question is most irrelevant,” the chief spokesperson said, because under the Constitution there could not be two Prime Ministers.
Mukherjee began his day by accepting greetings from Congress workers and minor functionaries.
At 9.45, he drove to Rashtrapati Bhavan to receive Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a courtesy the Prime Minister would have extended. Since “my Prime Minister is indisposed, I am receiving you”, Mukherjee told the Kazakh leader.
He headed delegation-level talks with Kazakhstan in the presence of President Pratibha Patil.
If the Prime Minister was not in hospital, he would have presided over the talks at Hyderabad House instead of at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mukherjee also signed an extradition treaty with his Kazakh counterpart. India’s Nuclear Power Corporation and state-owned Kazakh company KazAtomProm signed a memorandum of understanding for supply of uranium for India’s nuclear power plants.
In between, Mukherjee called national security adviser M.K. Narayanan and principal secretary to the Prime Minister T.K.A. Nair for a meeting in his office before leaving for the Congress headquarters.
Mukherjee chaired a meeting of the manifesto committee, which firmed up a draft. He said he would hand over the document to Sonia Gandhi, who will place it before the Congress Working Committee for the final endorsement.
Mukherjee also had a one-to-one with Sonia’s political secretary Ahmed Patel.
He was expected to wrap up his day with a banquet, hosted by the President, in Nazarbayev’s honour.
However, Patil, and not Mukherjee, would make the customary speech in the Prime Minister’s absence.
The Press Trust of India (India), January 24, 2009, INDIA SIGNS PACT WITH KAZAKHSTAN FOR URANIUM SUPPLY
India today signed a civil nuclear pact with Kazakhstan under which the uranium-rich Central Asian country will supply much-needed fuel to atomic plants in the country.
India also signed four other pacts, including an Extradition Treaty, in the presence of President Pratibha Patil and her Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Patil oversaw the proceedings of inking of the four pacts as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was indisposed.
Kazakhstan will provide uranium and related products under the Memorandum of Understanding between Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and KazAtomProm. The MoU was signed by NPCIL CMD S K Jain and KazAtomProm President Moukhtar Dzhakishev.
The MoU also opens up possibilities of joint exploration of uranium in Kazakhstan, which has the world's second largest uranium reserves, and India building atomic power plants in the Central Asian country.
"These agreements are very important for the stature of our bilateral relations," Nazarbayev told reporters here.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who led the delegation level talks in absence of Singh, inked the Extradition Treaty with his Kazakh counterpart Marat Tazhin.
Minister of State of Commerce Jairam Ramesh and Kazakh Minister of Trade and Industry Vladimir Shkolnik signed the protocol on the accession of Kazakhstan to the World Trade Organisation.
An MoU was signed between ISRO and Kazakh Space Agency for space cooperation. ONGC Mittal Energy Limited also signed and agreement with state-run KazMunaiGas. PTI