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Prime minister
The Prime Minister of India, as addressed to in the Constitution of India, is the chief of government, chief advisor to the President of India, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament. The Prime Minister leads the executive branch of the Government of India. The prime minister is the senior member of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The prime minister selects and can dismiss other members of the cabinet; allocates posts to members within the Government; is the presiding member and chairman of the cabinet and is responsible for bringing proposal of legislation. The resignation or death of the Prime Minister dissolves the cabinet. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President to assist the latter in the administration of the affairs of the executive. The incumbent prime minister is Manmohan Singh, in office since 22 May 2004. India follows a parliamentary system of government. In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of the government and head of the executive branch. In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative (i.e., the monarch, president, or governor-general) usually holds a purely ceremonial position. The prime minister is always, a member of parliament and is expected with other ministers to ensure the passage of bills through the legislature.

Home minister

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who is also Leader of the house in the Lok Sabha, spoke on the Assam violence that led to a heated debate between the government and the Opposition on the first day of the Monsoon Session. Here are the highlights of Mr Shinde's speech: The high point of this ever-smiling leader's political career came in 2004, when he steered the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance to victory in the Maharashtra Assembly elections in what was widely considered to be an uphill battle. Brought in as chief minister a little less than two years before the elections, Shinde played the Dalit card to neutralise any possible inroads that Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party had made in the state and used his charm to keep an increasingly assertive NCP at bay. But the faith the Congress high command had in Shinde's administrative prowess was made evident by the fact that after the electoral victory, it handed the reins over to Vilasrao Deshmukh. Shinde was shunted out to the Raj Bhawan in Hyderabad. It is therefore difficult to understand what could possibly have forced the Congress to promote Shinde to the Ministry of Home Affairs, that too at a time when he was presiding over a colossal national grid collapse as the country's power minister.