India, April 23 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Very good morning all of you.
I was Governor of the state of West Bengal and had the good fortune to be at a place where Britishers ruled for long so an Indian mind had the great occasion to occupy that place. I had the good fortune at the invitation of the Hon'ble President, the first tribal woman to hold that position to be at Rashtrapati Bhavan. I had the good fortune in 1990 to be sworn in as a Union Minister at Rashtrapati Bhavan but something was missing. What happened for 20 years, two decades, it was from this place.
Boys and girls and those in the last bench, you are not backbenchers. You happen to be sitting at the end but you are more significant f...